Boris Johnson has unveiled the Conservative Party manifesto for the 2019 general election - and it's packed full of policies and crafty pledges that perhaps aren't quite what they seem.
It like social care and Universal Credit .
But it does promise a return to maintenance grants in a huge Tory U-turn - not to mention a cut in National Insurance worth £85 a year.
The experts say this manifesto has less ambition than those of Labour and the Lib Dems.
Perhaps that's to be expected from a party that's been in government for 9 years - so only has itself to blame for the state of the country.
So what is actually in the Conservative Party's 2019 manifesto? The whole 60-page document is on the internet, but of course that's far too long. So we've filleted it for you ourselves.
NHS and health

- Bring back maintenance grants for student nurses in partial U-turn four years after bursaries were scrapped. They will be worth £5,000 to £8,000 a year - but student nurses will still have to pay tuition fees
- Commit to have 50,000 more nurses - even though 18,500 are already working in the NHS now
- £34bn a year in extra funding for the NHS by 2024
- 40 'new' hospitals - many of which do not have guaranteed funding yet, or are rebuilds
- Hospital parking charges scrapped for some - including disabled, sick kids' parents and NHS staff working overnight. But Labour goes further by scrapping all charges for patients and staff
- Upgrades and new machines to boost early cancer diagnosis across 78 hospital trusts
- 6,000 more GPs, 50million more GP appointments and 6,000 more primary care professionals
- 'Promote the uptake' of vaccines, extend social prescribing and improve hospital food
- Extend the Cancer Drugs Fund
- Treat mental and physical health with same urgency
- Budget doubling for 'health tourism enforcement unit'
- NHS 'not for sale' in Brexit trade talks
Social care

- £1bn a year to plug immediate gaps in social care
- But no long-term plan now despite Boris Johnson saying he would solve the crisis
- Instead Tories pledge to seek cross-party consensus
- One red line: No one will have to sell their home
- Dementia research funding doubled
- Unpaid carers to get a week of leave entitlement
Education and childcare

- Teachers' starting salaries rise to £30,000 - though previous announcement suggested it'd take some years
- An 'arts premium' worth just over £100m a year for secondary schools
- No new cash for schools in manifesto - but £14bn already announced
- Improve the Troubled Families programme and review the care system to ensure kids have support
- £1bn fund spread over three years to provide more childcare with focus on activities in school premises, including during the holidays
- £3bn National Skills Fund
- New law to let parents take extended leave for neonatal care
Welfare
- Universal Credit rollout to continue
- No pledge to axe five-week wait or two-child limit
- Benefit freeze to end in April as already announced
- Minimum PIP award to double from 9 to 18 months to spare disabled people as many benefit tests
- National Strategy for Disabled People by end of 2020 including looking at how to improve benefit system
- Child benefit banned for kids living overseas
Brexit and migration

- Refuse to extend Brexit transition period beyond 31 December 2020 - opening a 'trapdoor' to no deal
- Keep the UK out of the EU single market and 'out of any form of customs union'
- Start putting Brexit deal through Parliament before Christmas
- 'Aim to' have 80% of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next 3 years - starting with US, Australia, New Zealand and Japan
- An Australian-style points system for migration
- NHS Visa to fast-track staff into the health service
- But Immigration Health Surcharge hiked from £400 a year to £625 including for immigrants who work in the NHS themselves - this is dubbed the 'nurse tax'. It will raise more than half a billion pounds per year by 2024
- Immigration to fall overall - but manifesto refuses to say by how much
- 'Leaders in their field' actively recruited to the UK and new start-up visa and student visa, allowing students to stay on after they graduate
- EU citizens already here allowed to stay
But EU nationals only able to access key benefits after living in UK for five year
Economy and public services

- No rises in Income Tax, National Insurance or VAT until 2024
- Minimum wage for over-25s rises to £10.50 by 2024 and expands to over-21s
- National Insurance threshold to rise to £9,500, saving earners around £85 per year. Ambition is to raise it further to £12,500 to save £500 a year - but this isn't costed. And experts say it'll help the better-off
- No borrowing to fund day-to-day spending
- But borrowing to fund £100bn infrastructure fund - less than the £400bn pledged by Labour - with public sector net investment of up to 3% of GDP
- Pledge that debt will be lower at the end of the Parliament
- Towns Fund going to an initial 100 towns
- £500m in new youth clubs, £150m Community Ownership Fund and a safer streets fund
- £4bn in new funding for flood defences
- 'Intend' to bring full-fibre and gigabit broadband to every home and business in the UK by 2025 - including £5bn to connect non-commercially-viable properties
- Review of business rates with view to cutting them
- Increase Employment Allowance for small businesses costing £500m a year by 2024
- Raise Tax Credit rate to 13% for research and development, and review and reform Entrepreneur's Relief
- Implement the Digital Services Tax
- Give workers the right to a more predictable contract
Transport

- All-out rail strikes banned with a minimum service having to be operated
- Northern Powerhouse Rail to be built between Manchester and Leeds - then focus on Liverpool, Tees Valley, Hull, Sheffield and Newcastle
- Investment for the Midlands Rail Hub strengthening links between Birmingham, Leicester and other cities
- But HS2 still up in the air as Tories have not yet responded to the Oakervee Review
- Manifesto washes its hands of Heathrow Airport expansion, saying it's now a private project
- City regions get funding to upgrade bus, tram and train services
- £28.8bn to be spent on 'strategic' and local roads
Electric car charging point within 30 miles of any point in the country
£500m to restore some rail lines axed under Beeching in the 1960s
Contactless PAYG ticketing to 200 more stations in the South East
£500m a year over four years to fill potholes
£350m Cycling Infrastructure Fund
Upgrade the A55 and deliver M4 relief road - if the Tories take power in Wales
Environment and animal rights

- Commit to net zero UK carbon emissions by 2050
- End excessively long journeys for slaughter. Elsewhere the manifesto claims this means ending live animal exports
- 'Prioritise the environment' in the next Budget
- 'Consult on earliest date' to phase out petrol and diesel cars - but no actual date given
- Guarantee current annual budget to farmers in every years of the next parliament
- Create new National Parks and AONBs, new Office For Environmental Protection, legal targets on air quality
- £640m Nature for Climate fund
- Great Northumberland Forest with 75,000 acres of trees extra per year
- Make the coast to coast path in north a national trail
- Levy targeted at recyclable plastics in packaging
- Higher penalties for fly-tipping
- Guaranteed no return to fox hunting
- Tougher sentences for animal cruelty and new laws on animal sentience
- Ban on keeping primates as pets
Enact ivory ban and extend it to cover more species
£500m Blue Planet Fund
Women and equalities
- Abolish VAT on sanitary products (the Tampon Tax)
Housing and homelessness

- Build 1million homes over Parliament
- End rough sleeping by 2024 - three years earlier than promised in the 2017 manifesto
- Maintain commitment to Right to Buy for all council tenants
- Scrap 'no fault evictions'
- Give renters a 'lifetime deposit' they can carry over from one tenancy to the next
- Stamp duty surcharge of 3% on foreign home buyers
- Social Housing White Paper to examine system
Pensioners
- Keep the triple lock
- Keep the winter fuel payment
- Keep the older person's bus pass
- But no funding for free TV licences for over-75s
- And no offer to 3.8million 'WASPI' women born in 1950s whose pension age rose without warning
Energy
- Keep the existing energy price cap
- Extend the water rebate for those in the South West
- 40GW from offshore wind by 2030
- £800m for first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by mid-2020s
Democracy
- Force through plans to make voters show ID despite warnings they will disenfranchise thousands - to tackle a crime for which there's almost no evidence
- Scrap the 15-year limit on expats being able to vote after they move out of the UK
- Scrap the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act that blocked Boris Johnson getting an election 3 times
- Keep the voting age at 18 and keep first past the post
- Repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act and scrap second stage of the Leveson Inquiry
- Public bodies banned from imposing their own BDS (boycott, divest or sanctions) movements
Armed Forces
- No pledge to maintain troop numbers - though Boris Johnson then made it in person at manifesto launch
- New laws to stop 'vexatious' legal claims against veterans over historic alleged injustices
- Wraparound childcare for Forces families - but no new funding to pay for it
- Veterans' railcard giving a third off rail travel
- Guaranteed job interview for any veteran applying to any public sector job
Foreign policy
- Keep spending 2% of GDP on defence and 0.7% on foreign aid
- Support construction of UK Holocaust Memorial and a Windrush memorial
- 'Further develop' Magnitsky-style sanctions
- Maintain the Trident nuclear deterrent
Police, crime and justice
- Hiring 20,000 more police officers - almost replacing the 21,000 cut under the Tories
- New powers to stop and search those suspected of knife crime
- Knife crimes to be rushed through courts with prison sentences for those convicted
- End automatic release for serious criminals halfway through their jail terms
- Life imprisonment without parole for adults who kill children
- 'Consult on' doubling jail term for people who assault emergency services
- Expand electronic tagging including 'sobriety tags' for those driven by alcohol addiction
- New National Cyber Crime Force and National Crime Laboratory
- 10,000 more prison places
- Prisoners will still be banned from voting
- Travellers to be criminalised by making intentional trespass a criminal, not a civil offence
- Worst tax fraudsters' jail terms double from 7 to 14 years
- Single beefed-up anti-tax-evasion unit in HMRC