2010 Election

The Parties
The Leaders

Gordon Brown
The Leaders

David Cameron
The Leaders

Nick Clegg
The Policies
• "Targeted" increase in public spending over
the next year to "sustain the recovery",
before cutting the deficit by more than 50%
by 2014 and reducing the structural deficit
by at least two-thirds over the next
parliament
• Protect "frontline investment" in childcare,
schools, the NHS and policing
• Ensure all people who suspect they have
cancer get test results within one week
• Restore the link between the state pension
and earnings from 2012
• Guarantee a place in education or training
for all 16 and 17 year olds
• Guarantee people aged 18-24 a job, work
experience or training place if they are
unemployed for more than six months
• Give parents of one- and two-year-olds an
extra £4 a week in Child Tax Credit for each
child from 2012
• Hold a referendum on adopting the
Alternative Vote system for Westminster
elections and making the House of Lords
fully elected by October 2011
• Aim to eliminate "the bulk" of the UK's
structural deficit within five years beginning
in 2010 with £6bn in cuts
• Spending cuts in all areas apart from health
and foreign aid
• Create a Pupil Premium, giving more money
to schools that teach the poorest children;
scrap identity card scheme
• Allow charities, trusts, voluntary groups and
co-operatives to set up new Academy
schools, independent of local authority
control, and to run other public services
• Recognise marriage in the tax system by
allowing adults who are married or in a civil
partnership to transfer up to £750 of their
tax-free personal allowance to their spouse,
as long as the higher-income member of the
couple is a basic-rate taxpayer
• Scrap Labours planned 1% national insurance
rise for people earning less than £35,000
• Raise Inheritance Tax threshold to 1m; set an
annual limit for non-EU economic migrants
• Identify and cut £15bn of lower priority
spending per year to protect front-line
services while reducing structural deficit at
least as fast as Labour plans, beginning in
2011
• Raise the threshold at which people start
paying income tax from £6,475 to £10,000
• Scrap identity card scheme
• Impose "mansion tax" on the value of
properties over £2m and increase capital
gains tax to bring it into line with income tax
• Introduce a banking levy until such time as
banks' retail and investment arms can be
separated
• Replace the Council Tax with a Local Income
Tax after a pilot phase
• Provide £2.5bn for a "Pupil Premium" for
schools teaching the poorest pupils, allowing
average primary school class sizes to be cut
to 20
• Introduce a written constitution and single
transferable vote (STV) system for all UK
elections
• Allow voters to force a by-election for any
MP found responsible for "serious
wrongdoing"
Your Vote!
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