Labour has today released it’s 43-page manifesto document outlining plans to re-nationalise key industries, boost worker’s rights and reverse a number of benefits cuts. Health & social care comes high on the list with £37bn pledged for the NHS, approximately £8bn for social care, a £10/hour minimum wage pledge, 30 hours of free childcare for children between the ages of two and four and university tuition fees to be abolished. The list of pledges, at a sum of £48.6bn is to be funded almost entirely by tax revenue. For individuals, those on more than £80,000 will be paying the 45p…
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