Labour Promises
Taxpayers whose incomes top £1m a year would be forced to make their tax records public under Labour, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39139432
Asked how much extra funding the NHS and social care systems should be given, McDonnell said: “What they need; what they need.”
“What they need; what they need.”
John McDonnell - "Under the next Labour government, everyone will earn enough to live on. When we win the next election we will write a real Living Wage into law.
"We'll charge a new Living Wage Review Body with the task of setting it at the level needed for a decent life. Independent forecasts suggest that this will be over £10 per hour.
"This will be a fundamental part of our new bargain in the workplace.
"There would be support for small businesses to ensure that the higher rate did not cost jobs."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37468209
Nationalise the Railway
John McDonnell - "Under the next Labour government, everyone will earn enough to live on. When we win the next election we will write a real Living Wage into law."
John McDonnell - "to "end the social scourge of tax avoidance" by doubling the number of HMRC staff working in this area and banning "tax-dodging companies" from winning public sector contracts
A “maufacturing renaissance” helped by a “£250bn national investment bank to support British industry”.
fight for the "best possible" Brexit deal for the UK
to ensure there are "no more (former BHS owen) Philip Greens"
rewrite the Takeover Code to make sure every takeover proposal has a clear plan in place to pay workers and pensioners
to repeal the Trade Union Act"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37468209
Mr McDonnell - "said the UK needed an interventionist government working with the private sector.
And he pledged that the UK would borrow in the short term for long-term investment and the "prosperity of the future".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37468209
Mr McDonnell - "Be certain the next Labour government will be an interventionist government," he argued. "We will not stand by like this one has and see our key industries flounder and our future prosperity put at risk."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37468209
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry - "Labour says it will replace £10bn of EU funding shortfalls caused by Brexit "into the 2020s and beyond".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37469047
Shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner - "A future Labour government would ban fracking in England, shadow energy secretary Barry Gardiner has said."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37470549
Jeremy Corbyn - "Mr Corbyn's pledge to re-start coal mining in South Wales."
