1997 Labour Promises Pledge Card

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1997 Labour Promises

Pledge Card

1. We will cut class sizes to 30 or under for 5, 6 and 7 year olds by using money saved from the assisted places scheme.

2. We will introduce a fast track punishment scheme for persistent young offenders by halving the time from arrest to sentencing.

3. We will cut NHS waiting lists by treating an extra 100,000 patients as a first step by releasing £100m saved from NHS red tape

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4. We will get 250,000 under-25 years-olds off benefit and into work by using money from a windfall levy on the privatised utilities.

5. We will set tough rules for government spending and borrowing and ensure low inflation and strengthen the economy so that interest rates are as low as possible to make all families better off.

2001

1. Mortgages as low as possible, low inflation and sound public finances

2. 10,000 extra teachers and higher standards in secondary schools

3. 20,000 extra nurses and 10,000 extra doctors in a reformed NHS

4. 6,000 extra recruits to raise police numbers to their highest ever level

5. Pensioners' winter fuel payment retained, minimum wage rising to £4.20

By 2005, with lots of failures on display in Health care, Policing, Teaching, Public spending and taxation, the most bland, innocuous, unquantifiable pledges, released only because they had been done before and to escape the charge of abandonment appeared without fanfare.

1. Your family better off

2. Your family treated better and faster

3. Your child achieving more

4. Your country's borders protected

5. Your community safer

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