left wing

• Emphasies the importance of crearing a fair and equal society
• Society - socially progressive, advocate for parity of esteem and legal status of alternative lifestyles and families
• Society - embraces multi culturalism
• Society - 2021 Labour pleged to ensure the same rights for all workers from day 1
• Individuals and groups - collective rights have primacy over individual rights
• Individuals and groups - collective solutions to societal problems e.g. NHS funded by general taxation
• Economy - state intervention and mixed economy of public ownership/nationalisation (e.g. British gas) and a highly regulated private sector
• Economy - high taxation to support public sector through income redistribution
• Economy - 2019 BT Outreach added to Labour's nationalisation targets; Labour seeking to reverse wave of privatisation under Thatcher in the 1980s
• State - has an extensive and proactive role to ameliorate inequality through the welfare state
• Law and order - focus on social causes behind calm and disorder; emphasis on rehabilitation
• Equality - goal is to make a more egalitarian society with collective rights and collective solutions
• Equality - focused on equality of outcome over equality of opportunity