THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO 1979

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functions with those of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to ensure that consumers are not exploited Consider in the light of the official enquiry we have set up into agricultural land, protection for farmers This was the first election since 1959 to feature three new leaders for the main political parties. The three main parties all advocated cutting income tax. Labour and the Conservatives did not specify the exact thresholds of income tax they would implement but the Liberals did, claiming they would have income tax starting at 20% with a top rate of 50%. [6] itself. They are ready to gamble the people's future on a return to the nineteenth century free market' - Bank to their full potential, a Labour Government will ensure for the country a vigorous public banking

nuclear waste. We have not decided whether to build a commercial fast breeder reactor. A major study and There were also psychological barriers. Non-buyers tended to be afraid of mortgage debt, or of taking responsibility for repairs. Or they didn’t think property ownership was for the likes of them. Or they simply didn’t like their home enough to buy it: during the 70s, more vulnerable tenants had become increasingly concentrated in the worst council properties. Often, non-buyers were simply too overwhelmed by the rest of their lives. Even after five years of the right to buy, the 1988 report found, almost a tenth of council tenants were completely unaware of the scheme at all. Among the remaining nine-tenths, the vast majority of whom qualified for it, “knowledge of the right to buy was found to be sparse and often inaccurate”. will guide the nation in the critical years ahead. In this manifesto, Labour puts forward its policies for the

The Next Phase: 2015

Thirdly, in contrast to the Tories' savage free-for-all which leads to soaring inflation and industrial chaos,

local authorities and voluntary groups to clear up derelict land, and use it to the benefit of the community. To restore the health of our economic and social life, by controlling inflation and striking a fair balance between the rights and duties of the trade union movement. for Britain. But many great issues affecting our allies and the world are involved, and a new round of For these we need a Labour majority in Parliament. This manifesto sets out our aims for the next five years. Future Prime Minister John Major, who went on to succeed Thatcher in November 1990, entered Parliament at this election, retaining the Huntingdonshire seat in Cambridgeshire for the Conservatives. Jeremy Thorpe, Shirley Williams and Barbara Castle were all among the members of parliament who resigned or lost their seats.to restore the health of our economic and social life, by controlling inflation and striking a fair balance between the rights and duties of the trade union movement"; of pupils to teachers is now only 23.6 in primary schools and 16.9 in secondary schools. Labour will continue The Labour Government will press for improvements in the Lome Convention, for widening the scope of the

Comments on government proposals may have focussed on housing associations, but the impact on council housing (under the initial proposals and the voluntary scheme) was potentially more serious. Disposals of higher value council properties to fund the sale of housing association dwellings involved an immediate loss of relets and appeared to have no regard to spatial and social segregation and concentrations of deprivation. By 2015 almost half of all local authorities in England no longer had any significant council housing. This suggests that disposals would operate at a regional or sub-regional level and, would be concentrated on the ‘higher value’ properties within these areas. It would only be possible to finance housing association sales by transferring resources between local authority areas – in some cases sales of council dwellings in areas with high levels of housing stress would fund generous discounts to expand home ownership elsewhere rather than being reinvested locally. continue to work for the success of the Mutual Balanced Force Reduction Talks in Vienna, and will give

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We will improve and increase public sector housing in rural areas and improve their educational facilities Pollution has set the pace for advance. For the future, however, we will have to give still higher priority Tory Government - with a secure future. We will continue to take, and enforce, national measures to