1979 Manifesto:
- Control inflation
- Regulation in industry
- Work with the trade unions
- Ensure public sector workers recieve wages in line with private sector workers
- Return to full employment
- Expand programmes of training & retraining in skills
- Conclude planning agreements with major private industry companies
- Government giving major aid to investment
- Expansion in housing, health service & education
- Longer holidays
- Earlier voluntary retirement
- Decentralized power - back to the individual & local authorities
- Devolution for Scotland
- Freedom of Information Bill to provide a system of open government
- abolish the delaying power and legislative veto of the House of Lords.
- Equality for women
- Industrial democracy
- Fight for disarmament
- Defeat world poverty
- Major programme of alternative energy and energy saving
- Defeat all tax evasion
- Introduce an Annual Wealth Tax
- Increase child benefit
- Reduce income tax
- Give more support to one parent families
- Protect a comprehensive national health service
- Abolish all charges in the NHS
- Universal comprehensive education
- Reduce class sizes
- Return to full employment - increase spending
- Introduce a minimum wage
- Control inflation
- Longer holidays
- Early voluntary retirement
- Programme for energy conservation
- Abolish all costs in the National Health Service
- Comprehensive nation health service
- Comprehensive education
- Reduce class sizes
- Expansion on housing
- Freedom of Information Bill to provide a system of open government
- Decentralisation of power to local authorities
- Devolution to Scotland
- Provide a major increase in public investment, including transport, housing and energy conservation.
- Halt the destruction of our social services and begin to rebuild them
- Increase investment in industry
- Introduce a crash programme of employment and training, with new job subsidies and allowances.
- Industrial democracy.
- Begin the return to public ownership of those public industries sold off by the Tories.
- Increase child benefit
- Increase pensions
- Spend more on education
- Begin to develop comprehensive care for the under-fives.
- Begin to develop a strategy to eliminate low pay
- Strengthen the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act.
- Improve child care and other social services
- Programme of house-building and improvement.
- Stop the waste of energy.
- Give more help to public transport, with funds to improve services, keep down fares, and increase investment
- Act to improve the environment and deal with pollution
- Introduce a positive action programme for the ethnic minorities.
- Abolish the legislative powers of the House of Lords.
- Cancel the Trident programme, refuse to deploy Cruise missiles and begin discussions for the removal of nuclear bases from Britain..
- Increase aid to developing countries towards the UN target of 0.7 per cent.
- Prepare for Britain's withdrawal from the EEC.
- Return to full employment
- Increase child benefit
- Introduce a national minimum wage
- A Freedom of Information Act for a more open Government
- Expansion of education, health, housing and the social services.
- Bring in a stronger regulatory framework to ensure honest practice in the City of London and introduce new safeguards on mergers, takeovers and monopolies to protect our national industrial, technological and research and development interests.
- Expand training for the unemployed
- Energy conservation programme
- Abolish all national health service charges
- Higher pensions
- Flexible cirriculum in schools
- Comprehensive tertiary system of post-school education.
- Build more housing
- Devolution for Scotland
- Decentralization of power to local authorities
- Democratic Industry - democratic participation in industry and trade unions
- Cancel trident and strengthen position in NATO
- Control inflation
- Increase child benefit
- Increase pensions
- Cut unemployment
- Build more housing
- More rights in the workplace
- Training oppotunities and experience for the unemployed
- Statutory minimum wage
- Comprhensive NHS
- Nursery education for 3 and 4 year olds
- Smaller classes
- Comprehensive tertiary system of post-school education.
- Invest in transport
- Strengthen regional economics
1997 Manifesto:
- Basic minimum rights for the individual in the workplace
- Cut class sizes in schools
- No increase to income tax rates
- Control inflation
- National minimum wage
- Tax cuts for employers who create jobs for the long term unemployed
- Cut costs in the NHS
- End the hereditary principle in the House of Lords
- Reform of party funding to end sleaze
- Devolved power in Scotland and Wales
- Elected mayors for London and other cities
- More independent but accountable local government
- Freedom of information and guaranteed human rights
- Referendum on single currency
- Lead reform of the EU
- Retain Trident: strong defence through NATO
- A reformed United Nations
- Helping to tackle global poverty
- Promote competition in the British market
