Owen Smith: The 20 policy pledges made in bid to challenge Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
Here are his 20 policy pledges:
• A pledge to focus on equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity
• Scrapping the DWP and replacing it with a Ministry for Labour and a Department for Social Security
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Hide Ad• Introducing modern wages councils for hotel, shop and care workers to strengthen terms and conditions
• Banning zero hour contracts
• Ending the public sector pay freeze
• Extending the right to information and consultation to cover all workplaces with more than 50 employees
• Ensuring workers’ representation on remuneration committees
• Repealing the Trade Union Act
• Increase spending on the NHS by 4% in real-terms in every year of the next parliament
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Hide Ad• Commit to bringing NHS funding up to the European average within the first term of a Labour government
• Greater spending on schools and libraries
• Re-instate the 50p top rate of income tax
• Reverse the reductions in Corporation Tax due to take place over the next four years
• Reverse cuts to Inheritance Tax announced in the Budget
• Reverse cuts to Capital Gains Tax announced in the Budget
• Introduce a new wealth tax on the top 1% earners
• A British New Deal unveiling £200 billion of investment over five years
• A commitment to invest tens of billions in the north of England, and to bring forward High Speed 3
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Hide Ad• A pledge to build 300,000 homes in every year of the next parliament - 1.5 million over five years
• Ending the scandal of fuel poverty by investing in efficient energy
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