General election party manifestos at a glance
Labour
Main pledges include:
- A ban on some zero-hours contracts,
- A freeze on energy bills
- Scrapping non-dom tax status
- Reducing tuition fees to £6,000.
- Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by October 2019
- Freezing rail fares for one year
- Protecting tax credits for working families so they rise with inflation
- Introducing a new National Primary Childcare Service, guaranteeing childcare from 08:00 to 18:00
- No increase to the basic or higher rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT
Read the full Labour manifesto here.
Conservative
Main pledges include:
- Extending the right-to-buy scheme for housing association tenants in England.
- Taking all workers on the minimum wage out of income tax, raising personal allowance to £12,000
- 30 hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds, "worth £5,000 a year"
- Lifting the inheritance tax threshold on family homes to £1m by 2017
- No above-inflation rises in rail fares until 2020
- An extra £8bn a year for the NHS by 2020
- Opening 500 more free schools
- An EU referendum by 2017
- Plans to build 200,000 starter homes
Read the full Conservative manifesto here.
Liberal Democrats
Main pledges include:
- Raise the Personal Allowance to at least £12,500 by the end of the next Parliament.
- Legislate to make the ‘triple lock’ permanent in terms of pensions.
- Additional £8bn a year funding for NHS by 2020.
- Eliminate deficit by 2017-18 and have debt falling as a percentage of national income.
- Green laws including decarbonisation target for electricity.
- Create a supplementary Corporation Tax for the banking sector.
- Proceed with HS2, as the first stage of a high-speed rail network to Scotland.
- Invest £500m in mental health care with waiting time standards to match those in physical health care.
- Extend free childcare to all two-year-olds for working families.
Read the full Lib Dem manifesto here.
Green Party
Main pledges include:
- Plans to renationalise the railways; curb emissions
- Reverse what the party sees as the "creeping privatisation" of the NHS
- Raise the top rate of income tax to 60p
- Increase the minimum wage to a living wage of at least £10
- Decommission Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent
- A plan for a free nationwide home insulation programme to help tackle nine million cold homes, and lift two million homes out of fuel poverty
- Increase public spending to almost half of national income
- Close taxation loopholes and crack down on tax avoidance
- Introduce a wealth tax of 1-2 per cent on people worth £3m or more
Read the full Green manifesto here.
Scottish Green Party
Main pledges include:
- Raise the minimum wage in steps, with a target of £10 an hour for everyone by 2020
- Roll back welfare cuts, abolishing the bedroom tax and workfare, lifting the sanction regime and halting the roll out of universal credit
- Replace the Council tax and business rates with a progressive land tax
- Stabilise house prices and invest in social rented homes across the UK, financed by scrapping buy-to-let mortgage tax breaks and prudent borrowing
- Make renting fairer by introducing secure tenancies and rent controls in areas of spiralling cost
- Introduce a Healthy Challenge fund for community-run health projects
- Implement the world’s most ambitious home energy efficiency programme
- Invest in affordable quality childcare
- Introduce a wealth tax of 2 per cent on the wealthiest 1 per cent
Read the full Scottish Green manifesto here.
Plaid Cymru
Main pledges include:
- Introduce an Economic Fairness Bill to rebalance the wealth of the UK
- Create 50,000 jobs in Wales by giving more Welsh public sector contracts to companies working in Wales
- Increase the minimum wage to be the same level as the Living Wage over the next Parliament
- End zero hours contracts
- Support the public ownership of railways
- Support the devolution of air passenger duty
- Establish a Welsh Migration Service to establish a list of skills shortages
- Promote a Welsh civic identity through schools, by faith and community organisations to tackle
- extremism
- Double the bankers’ levy
UKIP
Main pledges include:
- Support for in/Out referendum on EU membership as soon as possible.
- An additional £3bn a year into the NHS in England by the end of the parliament.
- Abolish inheritance tax.
- No tax on the minimum wage up to £13,000.
- Scrap the Barnett Formula.
- Reduce the overseas aid budget from 0.7 per cent to 0.2 per cent of GNI.
- spend two per cent of GDP on defence in 2015/16 and exceed substantially for remaining years of parliament.
- Deportation of resident migrants who commit crimes resulting in custodial sentence.
- Ban exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts.
Read the full UKIP manifesto here.
Scottish Socialist Party
Main pledges include:
- Immediate rise in the minimum wage to £10 an hour
- Introduction of free public transport on all buses, trains, trams and ferries in Scotland
- Replacing the council tax with a 'Scottish Service tax' to pay for local government services raised via a levy on an individual's income
- Build 100,000 new social housing sector homes over the lifetime of this Parliament
- Return teacher numbers to pre-2007 levels
- Close private schools for a fully comprehensive, publicly owned and accountable education system
- 16 and 17 year olds should continue to enjoy the democratic franchise in all future elections in this country from now on
- The banks, oil industry, rail network and energy sector to be nationalised
- Introduce a national debate over scrapping the monarchy
Read the full manifesto here.
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