AT-A-GLANCE: Here's every new thing Labour announced at its 2018 conference
Labour used its annual conference in Liverpool to unveil a raft of big ticket domestic policy pledges, moving the party well beyond the manifesto it hastily drew up for last year's snap election. Here's PoliticsHome's at-a-glance guide to everything new Jeremy Corbyn's party promised this week.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
Labour's claim that "greed is good" capitalism is no longer working for ordinary people ran right through its Liverpool jamboree, and it was a raft of pledges to change the way big business is run that garnered the most headlines at the start of the week.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell put meat on the bones of his TUC pledge to set up "inclusive ownership funds". These would compel every company employing 250 or more staff - thought to be around 40% of the private-sector workforce - to set up new employee ownership schemes, with firms shifting 1% of their equity into the fund every year, up to a total of 10%.
As well as getting a say over the direction of the company, workers would be entitled to an annual dividend of up to £500. Anything above that cap would go to a 'social dividend' fund, directly boosting the Treasury's coffers.
The Shadow Chancellor said: "We believe that workers, who create the wealth of a company, should share in its ownership and, yes, in the returns that it makes." But the Tories dubbed it a tax rise in disguise, while the CBI business lobby group called it a "diktat" that would "encourage investors to pack their bags and will harm those who can least afford it".
In a further shake-up of Britain's corporate governance laws, Jeremy Corbyn meanwhile confirmed that big firms would be required to save a third of their boardroom seats for workers' representatives. If that plan sounds familiar, that's because Theresa May a made similar vow - long since shelved - when she took over as Prime Minister.
Elsewhere, Labour's top team fleshed out their nationalisation plans, vowing to set up a new 'Public and Community Ownership Unit' in the Treasury to oversee the handover of privatised industries like water and rail to the state. The small-print of Labour's water plans revealed an eye-catching detail - while most workers would be transferred over to the public sector, directors and executives would have to reapply for their jobs, which will be advertised with a salary no more than 20 times that of the lowest-paid worker in the company.
Labour said it would hand over control of the water industry to new 'Regional Water Authorities' run by local councils - but promised that existing shareholders of the privatised firms would be compensated with bonds. John McDonnell said people had had "enough of being ripped off by privatisation" - but industry group Water UK warned that clear-out of managers would risk "years of chaos in an essential public service".
Jeremy Corbyn used his big conference speech to make a push on climate change, vowing to completely eliminate carbon emissions by 2030 and create 410,000 new green energy jobs in the process. The move is not entirely new, however - it will be funded by a £250bn "national transformation fund" that was already in the party's 2017 manifesto.
Rebecca Long-Bailey is frequently talked up in Labour circles as a future leader, and she won't have done herself any harm with a populist vow to reverse the decline of Britain's high streets, which have been dogged by a string of big names going under in recent months.
The Shadow Business Secretary announced a "five-point plan" to help struggling shops, with the most headline-grabbing element being a pledge to ban ATM charges in a bid to get more people spending on the high street. Long-Bailey also vowed to provide free public Wi-Fi in town centres, set up a register of landlords who are sitting on empty shops, and bring in an annual revaluation of business rates alongside a "fundamental review" of the levies.
HEALTH
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth spelled out a pledge to crack down on the costs of the so-called "cancer commute", vowing to set up a new £5m 'Young Cancer Patient Travel Fund' to cover the costs of getting to treatment centres for kids "regardless of background". The party said the move would help struggling parents, who can be left stumping up some £600 a month in expenses to ensure their children are seen at specialist treatment centres.
Labour's health spokesman also promised some parliamentary chicanery on the upcoming Health Service Safety Investigations Bill to make sure Theresa May's big NHS cash boost goes on increased NHS staff and extra funds for the service's Medical Examiner service, which investigates unexpected deaths.
HOUSING
There were a string of big-ticket housing announcements from the conference floor, including a pledge to double council tax on holiday homes to provide extra cash for homelessness services. Housing campaigners at Shelter welcomed the plan, which Shadow Home Secretary John Healey promised would "strike a blow against housing inequality".
In a bid to win over the more than 11m people currently renting in Britain, Healey also promised that Labour would make £20m available to help get new German-style "renters' unions" off the ground. He said organisations offering to stick up for tenants in disputes with landlords and offer advice on renters' rights would be able to bid for a slice of the cash, which would be staggered over three years.
Elsewhere, the Shadow Housing Secretary also raised the hackles of landlords with a vow to give cities the power to bring in rent controls, and a pledge to axe Section 21 of the Housing Act, which currently lets landlords take possession of their properties from tenants without a reason. Lobby group the National Landlords Association welcomed the renters' unions call - but wasn't exactly thrilled with what it called an "arbitrary cap on rent levels".
HOME AFFAIRS
The really meaty stuff in Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott's speech had been unveiled in a set-piece immigration speech ahead of conference.
But, amid fiery attacks on the Government's treatment of the Windrush generation, the frontbencher also unveiled a policing pledge that went down well with the party faithful. Abbott vowed to rein in the power of the police to launch undercover operations, saying no covert probe could take place under a Labour government without cops having to seek "time-limited, judicial warrants".
Labour says the move - which comes after criticism of some undercover police for ending up in relationships with activists - would bring the rules into line with those for already in place for raiding property.
EQUALITIES
Shadow Equalities Minister Dawn Butler will get a fully-fledged department of her own under a Labour government, under plans unveiled at conference. The Government currently has a minister for women and equalities - but the brief moves around every time there's a cabinet reshuffle, and the Government Equalities Office currently sits in the Department for International Development under Penny Mordaunt. That will end under Labour's plans, with Butler vowing to use the heft of a separate department to "lead on reducing discrimination and inequality" right across government.
She also promised that victims of domestic violence would get a legal right to take up to ten days of paid leave, in a move the party says will help women leave abusive partners and access support services.
SCHOOLS
Academy schools may have started life as a pet project of the last Labour government, but Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner used her Liverpool speech to make clear that it'll be her party clipping their wings. The frontbencher vowed to end "forced conversion" of struggling schools to academies (Tory Education Secretary Damian Hinds has made similar noises in recent months) and said academies would be able to revert back to being run by local authorities, as part of plans to "bring all publicly funded schools back into the mainstream public sector, with a common rulebook and under local democratic control".
Ms Rayner also ruled out allowing any new 'free schools' to be set up under a Labour government, potentially putting paid to a David Cameron-backed experiment that has seen charity and parent-run schools get public money without having to follow the national curriculum. Neither are a massive shift from the 2017 manifesto, but inch Labour closer to calling time on the sapping of council's powers over schools that has gone on under successive governments.
Jeremy Corbyn meanwhile used his keynote speech to unveil plans to give 30 hours a week of free childcare to the parents of all two, three and four year olds - without means-testing. The Labour leader also vowed to provide extra, state-subsidised care above the 30-hour threshold, with parents on low incomes getting the additional hours for free and the richest paying "no more than £4 per hour" for a top-up.
WELFARE
There was plenty of sound and fury about the Government's welfare policies at Labour conference - but not a huge amount of new stuff. The party has been sharply critical of the Government's flagship Universal Credit welfare shake-up, and Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Margaret Greenwood told the Mirror's Dan Bloom she was "not ruling anything out" as she launched a fresh review of Universal Credit.
While she reiterated promises to axe the Conservatives' "punitive" system of welfare sanctions, the party has yet to commit to axing the scheme, and the SNP was quick to pounce on Labour's decision to effectively stick with the “pause and fix” stance they've had on the single payment since 2010. Spokesperson Neil Gray said: "Labour need to stop with tokenistic policy announcements that will do nothing to provide real change and restore value to social security."
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