Title: Labour Party manifesto 2019: 12 key policies explained - BBC News
Headings: Labour Party manifesto 2019: 12 key policies explained
Labour Party manifesto 2019: 12 key policies explained
The Labour Party has launched its 2019 election manifesto, with the slogan It's Time For Real Change. It sets out the policies the party aims to introduce should it win the election.
1. Increase health budget by 4.3%
The party also wants to cut private provision in the NHS.
2. Hold a second referendum on Brexit
Labour will renegotiate a new Brexit deal within three months, and hold a referendum on the deal or Remain within six months
3. Raise minimum wage from £8.21 to £10
It would boost anyone over the age of 25 earning the minimum wage, known as the National Living Wage.
4. Stop state pension age rises
Pension age would remain at 66 while retirement ages for those in arduous and stressful jobs will be reviewed.
5. Introduce a National Care Service
Provide "community-based, person-centred" support in England, including free personal care.
6. Bring forward net-zero target
To put the UK on track for a net-zero carbon energy system within the 2030s.
7. Nationalise key industries
The party will nationalise the so-called big six energy firms, National Grid, the water industry, Royal Mail, railways and the broadband arm of BT.
8. Scrap Universal Credit
Start work on a new benefits system to replace controversial benefit.
9. Abolish private schools' charitable status
There are also plans to scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants for the poorest students.
10. Free bus travel for under-25s
Labour will also bring the railways back into public ownership.
11. Give EU nationals the right to remain
It will mean EU citizens in the UK no longer have to apply to continue living and working in the country.
12. Build 100,000 council homes a year
Start a rapid programme of homebuilding.
What do the other parties offer?
What are the parties promising you?

Content: A key section covers Labour's plan to cut private provision in the NHS, which currently accounts for about 7% of the health budget in England. This would clearly involve outsourced contracts, for example for physiotherapy and community health. But will NHS hospitals suddenly see their waiting lists balloon as a result of operations outsourced to private hospitals being brought back into the public sector? And are these pledges longer-term aspirations or shorter-term priorities? Healthcare is devolved so these policies would apply to England only, but the devolved nations would benefit from the funding. 2.42.4.a5b3b2a
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"Rail, mail, water and energy into public ownership": Jeremy Corbyn launches Labour's manifesto
2. Hold a second referendum on Brexit
Labour will renegotiate a new Brexit deal within three months, and hold a referendum on the deal or Remain within six months
The short section called "The Final Say on Brexit" only begins on page 89 of this manifesto. The other main UK-wide parties have simple slogans, but Labour's policy is more complicated and doesn't fit on a manifesto cover or the side of a bus. It promises to renegotiate a new Brexit deal within three months, based on a new UK-EU customs union and close EU single market alignment.