Conservative manifesto for General Election 2017: Theresa May's plans for Government

Robin de Peyer7 June 2017
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Theresa May made a grab for Labour voters as she unveiled her first General Election manifesto.

The Prime Minister aimed to pitch herself as a unifying figure when she launched the manifesto entitled 'Forward Together'.

It included a major £8 billion funding injection for the NHS for the next two years, as well as a pledge to build a million new homes by 2020.

Here is what you need to know about the Conservatives' General Election manifesto:

Standout policies:

  • £8bn to be spent on the NHS
  • One million new homes by 2020, with another 500,000 by 2022

  • Net migration to be reduced to below 100,000 a year

  • Continue to increase the national living wage to 60 per cent of average earnings by 2020

  • Put executive pay packages to annual votes by shareholders and force listed companies to publish pay ratios.

  • Abandon plans for part two of the Leveson inquiry into media standards

  • Hold a free Commons vote on bringing back fox hunting

  • Means test the winter fuel allowance, meaning it will be taken away from wealthier pensioners

  • Include the value of peoples’ homes in the means test for whether people are liable to contribute to the cost of adult social care

Theresa May has vowed to slash net migration to tens of thousands
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Tax and spending:

  • Personal tax allowance to be increased to £12,500

  • Higher rate tax threshold to rise from £45,000 to £50,000 by 2020

  • Corporation tax to fall to 17 per cent from 19 per cent by 2020

  • Eliminate the budget deficit by 2025

Pensions:

  • Scrap David Cameron’s ‘triple lock’ on pensions after 2020 – meaning pensions will rise in line with earnings or inflation, whichever is highest.

  • Consider a new criminal offence for company directors who "deliberately or recklessly put at risk" a pension scheme's ability to meet its obligations.

The Prime Minister promised a vote in the Houses of Parliament on the terms of  Brexit
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​Brexit:

  • Exit the European single market and customs union

  • A vote in both Houses of Parliament on the “final agreement” for Brexit

  • Agree terms of future partnership with EU alongside withdrawal, both within the two years allowed under Article 50.

  • Convert EU law into UK law and later allow parliament to pass legislation to "amend, repeal or improve" any piece of this.

  • Remain signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights for the next parliament.

Theresa May promised a budget boost for schools
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Education:

  • Increase overall schools budget by £4 billion by 2022.

  • End universal free lunches for infants, but launch free breakfasts for all primary children.

  • Lifting the ban on grammar schools

  • Every 11-year-old expected to know their times tables off by heart.

Other policies:

  • Halve rough sleeping over the course of the next parliament and eliminate it by 2027.

  • The right to ask employers for up to a year of unpaid leave from work to care for relatives.

  • Spend at least two per cent of GDP on defence and increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation in every year of the new parliament.

  • Retain the Trident nuclear missile deterrent 

  • Concession to overseas aid spending critics: rules changed so other forms of spending count towards the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on international development

  • Minimum service levels agreed with train companies and staff during times of industrial action.

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