Jeremy Corbyn has unveiled Labour’s general election manifesto, branding it “the most radical and ambitious plan to transform our country in decades”.
However, the document watered down existing Labour policies in a range of areas, including abolishing private schools, extending freedom of movement and making the UK carbon neutral by 2030.
In a defiant message to critics of his left-wing agenda, Mr Corbyn said that “ferocious” attacks on him were a sign that the powerful elite are scared of his determination to change a system “rigged in their favour”.
And quoting Franklin Roosevelt, the president who led the US out of the Great Depression, he added: “They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred”.
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The IndependentSign up here to receive this daily briefing in your email inbox every morningMs Rayner said:
"If I am education secretary on December 13 we will make sure there are no longer student tuition fees.
"When we are in government we will look at the debt that the Lib Dems and the Conservatives have landed on our students."
"It absolutely is deliverable in a five-year parliament.The reason why we believe it is is that the state is going to take more direct control. We've tried to get the private landlords and the people that own the land at the moment who are supposed to be making sure that we get affordable and social housing to do that and the market hasn't delivered."
"The Labour government in 1945, after the Second World War, had a real job on its hands. We created a welfare state, the National Health Service and council housing. The next Labour government will rebuild our housing stock by delivering council housing."
- NHS
Labour has pledged to outspend the Tories in the key battleground by spending an extra £26 billion to rebuild "crumbling" hospitals and improve patient care.
A boost of an annual average of 4.3% in real-terms investment over the next four years has been promised to take the total Department of Health budget to £178 billion in 2023-24.
Dental check-ups and prescriptions would also become free for everyone in England.
- Brexit
Within three months a new deal with Brussels would be brokered, one that would see the UK remaining in the customs union and having access to the single market.
Then, within six months of electoral victory, the deal would be put to the public in a referendum along with the option to remain in the EU.
- Wages
The minimum wage would rise to £10-an-hour for everyone, including under-18s.
This plan forms part of Labour's war on poverty and its pledge to end the gender pay gap by 2030.
- Scotland
More than £70 billion of investment would head north of the border.
Opposition to another independence referendum is almost certain, though Mr Corbyn has not ruled out one taking place if there is the support in Scotland.
- Utilities
There is likely to be the commitment to bring the rail network back into public ownership as current franchises expire.
Bringing other utilities such as energy supply networks back into public control is also expected, as is the reversal of the privatisation of Royal Mail.
Local authorities would be given the power to bring bus services back into public control.
- Broadband
Every home and business would get free full-fibre internet by 2030 as Labour brings part of BT into public ownership to create a nationalised "British broadband service".
- Taxation
The top 5% of earners would pay more to fund public services, though the details are not yet clear.
Labour would shut down "tax tricks" by going after multinational corporations with a tax on their sales, workforce and operations as a share of their global activity.
- Education
Every adult would be entitled to six years of free study as part of its "cradle-to-grave" national education service, which would scrap university tuition fees and boost technical training.
Class sizes would be cut for five to seven-year-olds, 30 hours of free childcare would be given to all two to four-year-olds and new Sure Start children's centres would be opened.
- Housing
Labour is pledging to end the housing crisis by building 150,000 council and social homes a year in England within half a decade.
Some £75 billion of borrowing would be spent in five years to construct council and affordable housing in a massive boost from current building rates.
- Working week
A 32-hour working week would be introduced within 10 years with no loss to workers' pay. Labour expects this would be paid for by a boost to productivity.
- Immigration
Freedom of movement would continue if Remain won another referendum under Labour. But, if Leave won again, restrictions could be imposed.
Mr Corbyn said he would not commit to "arbitrary" targets as he highlighted the necessity of migrant workers to the economy, particularly the NHS.
- Environment
The climate crisis has been at the forefront of Labour's thinking in most of its pledges as it tries to make the economy carbon neutral by an as-yet unknown year.
But as part of its "green industrial revolution" it has also pledged 320,000 climate apprenticeships and billions in spending to upgrade every home to be energy efficient.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Ms Rayner said: "It is absolutely deliverable in a five-year Parliament and the reason why we believe it is is because the state is going to take more direct control."
Pushed on whether all of Labour's policies and pledges will be fully costed and deliverable in a five-year parliament, Ms Rayner added: "It is deliverable."
Asked whether Labour's manifesto will include a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2030, she added: "Well we said we want net zero by 2030, it was a conference motion as well."
- To build 100,000 council homes a year by 2024 - a 3,500 per cent increase.
- To get housing associations building 50,000 additional genuinely affordable homes in the same period.
- To scrap the government's definition of "affordable" homes, which allows rents to be set at up to 80 per cent of market rates. Instead, the new homes would either be social homes (around 50 per cent of market rents) or "living rent homes" (with rents set at a third of the average income of people in the area).
- To create a new tenure of housing for sale, where mortgage costs would be capped at a third of average local incomes.
“We have a list of crises as long as my arm - a social care crisis, a skills crisis, a manufacturing crisis, a standard of living crisis.Food banks are now the norm, insecure work is a business model for bad bosses. The number of homeless people you see every time you walk down the street is heart-breaking.
“This is the track record Boris Johnson is taking to the ballot box.We need real change, not tinkering around the edges of a system that was built by millionaires, in the interests of millionaires.
“Labour's manifesto shows how different things could be - the very richest in society paying their fair share to fund services we all rely on and build an economy that works for everyone.
“There’s a real choice at this election, this manifesto would change the lives of millions of people for the better.”
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