An idea borrowed from New Zealand – the wellbeing budget – would prioritise spending on mental health, care for children in schools, homelessness and exploitation. This tax removes physical buildings from calculations and instead applies the levy to the overall land value of a commercial site. Reforms of the tax system involve hikes on corporation tax from 17% to 20% and replacing business rates with a commercial landowner levy. Policies for asylum seekers and refugees include a 28-day limit on immigration detention, giving asylum seekers the right to work after three months, and resettling 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children.īilling themselves as the party of “fiscal rectitude”, the Lib Dems plan a £130bn infrastructure investment for public transport improvement, 300,000 new homes a year by 2024, and hyper-fast broadband. Families registering a child as a British citizen would only have to pay the administration fee and not the current £1,012 fee. Power over work permits and student visas would be removed from the Home Office and given instead to the departments for education and business. By stopping Brexit, they claim they would protect freedom of movement with EU countries. They do not give a figure for a net migration target, focusing instead on a raft of what they call “anti-hostile environment” policies. Mental health policies make up a significant portion of their health plans, including free prescriptions for those with chronic mental health conditions and new waiting time standards in children’s services and for those with eating disorders and severe conditions. New mums in England would be given Finnish-style baby boxes, which have been popular in Scotland. This would bring together both funding streams into one collective budget and the tax would show up on people’s payslips. Meanwhile, they would begin developing a new health and care tax. A form of the popular education maintenance allowance would make a return in the form of a new “young people’s premium”, a portion of which would go to 16-18-year-olds directly.Ī £7bn cash injection for the NHS and social care would be raised by putting 1p on income tax. Michael Gove’s legacy education policy, the Ebacc, would also be scrapped. They would triple the early years pupil premium to help the most disadvantaged children, scrap Sats exams, hire 20,000 more teachers and pay new recruits a starting salary of £30,000. Headline-grabbing policies are plugging the gap in childcare for working parents by offering free hours between nine months and two years old. Jo Swinson has made much of her party’s offer for children and families and education makes up the lengthiest portion of the manifesto. Their votes at 16 policy would also come into play if there was another Brexit vote. But their “ remain bonus” of £50bn is the basis for a lot of the manifesto’s spending commitments, and this pot of money comes from forecasts of higher growth for the UK economy in a remain scenario. They describe Brexit as a “national humiliation” that ultimately costs the NHS, public services, scientific collaboration, peace in Northern Ireland and the ability to tackle climate change. In other circumstances, they would champion a second referendum with the option of staying in Europe, which they would actively campaign for. A majority Lib Dem government would revoke article 50 and ensure Britain stays in the EU.
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