New Labour Flashcards
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Education
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A central theme
Want equality of opportunity and law and order particularly concerning youth
1
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What is Clause 4?
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Common ownership of property (nationalisation)
2
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Health
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Have accepted that some provisions can be supplied by private sectors but reject the idea of competition within the health system
3
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Consistutional Reform
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Want major reform, devolution, reform of the House of Lords, electoral reforms and human rights act
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Defence
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Have supported conservatives recently in matters of defence
e.g air strikes on Isis
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What are some current policies?
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- freeze gas and electricity bills until 2017
- 200,000 homes built by 2020
- increase minus wage to £8/h
- cutting business rates for 1.5 million small firms
- scarp bedroom tax
- NHS driven by needs, not by profit.
- repeal health and social care act
- cut income tax for 24 million people
