Jeremy Corbyn's Labour manifesto harks back to 1940s | Larry Elliott

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Party leader has taken postwar socialist ideas and added a modern populist twist

Free broadband. Free adult learning. Free dental care. The biggest council house building programme in decade. Abolish student tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants. All paid for by squeezing the rich, raising corporation tax, making tech giants pay the exchequer a fair whack, and by borrowing more. As Jeremy Corbyn was proud to state, this was the most radical Labour party manifesto in years.

 

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