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 #Labour #Starmer #GE2024

🚨**Labour pledges discipline on tax & spending as it reveals possible manifesto policies!**🚨

1/ #Labour has put “Stable public finances & prudent spending” at the heart of its offer for the 2024 manifesto, pledging iron discipline on how new policies are funded.

⚠️ £28bn a year for the green economy

⚠️ Sweeping reforms to childcare

⚠️ End tax breaks for private schools

⚠️ Close loopholes used by private equity firms & oil and gas companies

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/15/labour-policies-document

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2/ Labour interim manifesto cont...

⚠️ Multinational tech companies to pay their fair share of tax

⚠️ Decarbonising electricity grid by 2030

⚠️ Create publicly owned GB Energy Company

⚠️ An “Unshakeable” commitment to NATO

⚠️ End Zero-Hours Contracts

⚠️ Single status for workers

⚠️ Repeal post-2010 anti-strike legislation

⚠️ Fair pay agreements

⚠️ Reform the sick pay system

⚠️ Reform points-based #Immigration system

⚠️ Scrap Public Order Act

⚠️ Commit to triple lock on pensions

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No, he hasn't committed to 28bn for green economy. The promise is 28bn by end of administration subject to finances. 

And Starmers promises aren't worth a great deal tbh