Labour Party Policies

• Labour Economic Policies

  • Raising the minimum wage by 10 pounds an hour
  • A Second Referendum on Brexit
  • Bring forward net-zero target to 2030
  • Abolish private schools' charitable status
  • Abolish university fees
• Labour Law and Order Policies

  Bring back neighbourhood policing with 2,000 extra police officers and stop the sale of arms to Israel and Saudia Arabia.
• Blair as Interventionist

  Iraq War in 2003
• Iraq War 2003


  The US invaded Iraq (2003) on the basis that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (which was not true) and wanted to do a regime change. There were massive anti-war demonstrations everywhere, even before the war started. The Iraq War would last until 2011.
• New labour promise before 97' general election


  Promised to stick to the spending plans of the conservatives government and not to increase income tax
• Privatisation of the national air traffic services

  Sold 51% to private investors
• Stealth taxes

  A negative term coined by government critics to describe taxes designed to go unnoticed
• To what extent were New Labour's welfare policies similar to the previous conservative governments'

  • 'No rights without responsibility'
  • Equality of outcome to equality of opportunity
• Labour Impact on public spending and public services

  Healthcare investment doubled, with 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors. 14,000 more police officers in England and Wales
• Labour's impact on social justice and inequality

  The ban on gay people serving in the army was revoked in the Local Government Act (2003) and Repealed section 28, which banned local authorities from promoting homosexuality as normal.
• New Labour Attitude towards constitutional reform

  Increased use of referendums, devolution, removal of all but 92 hereditary peers
• Corbyn Economic Policy

  Increased investment in the economy and restoration of the 50% top rate of income tax.
• Corbyn Tax and Welfare policy


  Supported a maximum wage to cap the pay of executives
• Corbyn Public Ownership policy

  Nationalise railways, energy companies and end the involvement of private business in the NHS
• Corbyn Education Policy

  • Wanted a 'national education services’ which would provide a service from 'cradle to grave'
  • Universal Free childcare
  • Zero university tuition fees
  • The minimum wage for people on apprenticeships
• Corbyn defence policy


  The UK will not enter any more illegal wars and scrap trident
• Corbyn Housing Policy

  Wanted to introduce rent controls to make housing more affordable especially in London
• Corbyn Immigration policy

  Argued that immigration is good for the economy and that the UK should do more for asylum seekers
• Corbyn Europe Policy

  He is Euroskeptic as he is concered that he signle market benfitis big business more than it does the average worker.It aslo undermindes parlimetary soverignty
• Labour Acts

  • Supreme court Act
  • Human Rights Act
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Civil Partnership Act (2004)
  • Sexual offences Act
  • Gender Recognition Act