Analysed: Labour Manifesto 2024

Labour has launched its 2024 manifesto.

Here are some of the key policies, and the media’s response.

• ‘wealth creation’ for working people through encouraging investment and reforms to planning and education
• £8bn in revenue raising plans, which are set out to be covered by clamping down on tax avoidance, changes to non-dom tax status for the wealthy and windfall tax on big energy firms
• Adding 20% VAT to private school fees
• Building 300,000 homes a year
• Plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030
• Scrapping the Rwanda scheme and divert £75 million to a new Border and Security command
• £24 bn for green measures and initiatives
• An “absolute” commitment to nuclear deterrence and NATO
• Promise to deliver an additional 40,000 NHS appointments and operations

Many right-wing outlets focused on how the manifesto would impact the wealthy, while left-wing outlets were surprisingly critical that the manifesto doesn’t do enough to directly address and successfully incorporate Labour’s core values.

Unless otherwise linked, headlines are front pages for 19 June 2024.

Drill into the policy, ignore the puffery: this is a Starmer manifesto more than a Labour one

The Guardian

Starmer ‘tax threat’ to savers with a chequebook

The Times

Labour’s secret tax rise dossier: the official manifesto submission from group of MPs (which includes Starmer) proposing SIX raids, from targeting family homes to inheritance and wealth taxes

Daily Mail

PM: Labour will tax your years of savings in weeks

Daily Express

Tax raid fear as Starmer suggests savers are not ‘working people’

The Telegraph