LIVE: Labour is on your side, says Jeremy Corbyn at manifesto launch

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'My whole strategy has been to understand why people voted remain or why they voted leave.' BethRigby asks jeremycorbyn for a definitive stance on Leave or Remain during his party's GeneralElection19 manifesto launch. Follow live updates 👉 GE2019

He pledges 5% hike in public sector pay, a social housing 'revolution' and free bus travel for under-25sLive reporting by Aubrey Allegretti, political reporter and Rebecca Taylor, news reporter, in BirminghamHe says young workers will be entitled to £10 per hour and will get full workers rights straight away.

And the Labour leader insists he is"not fighting the election to go into coalition with anybody" - after the Tories repeated attack line he would go into coalition with the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon.Mr Corbyn, you were laughed at in the debate over Brexit - what's your straight answer on leave or remain?

He asks how many doctors, engineers and scientists we are losing out on because of poverty. He says it's about unleashing potential for the future. He says the level of difference in spending from London and south east compared to midlands and north is massive, and promises to invest in all regions. "It won't be top down nationalisation with a board appointed by the government," he assures the audience."It will be something more dynamic and consumer and community-orientated."

Ofsted would be replaced and inspections would be transferred to a new body"designed to drive school improvement". Labour would recruit at least 5,000 new firefighters and further invest in the Fire and Rescue Service, the manifesto says.He says there will be three years or more, according to Michel Barnier, to get Brexit done.

The party is not pledging to make the economy carbon neutral by 2030, as it had been urged to do at conference, instead it is seeking to achieve a"substantial majority" of reductions by that year.Labour commits to reverse cuts to public sector pay by giving above-inflation pay rises starting with a 5% increase by hiking taxes for those earning more than £80,000 and freezing those for everyone else.

Unlike the last public vote on EU membership, the manifesto says:"It will be legally binding. Labour will implement the decision of the British people immediately."Labour's manifesto falls short of agreeing to freedom of movement regardless of whether the UK stays in the EU. He quotes FD Roosevelt, and says he too welcomes the hatred of"those who profit from a rigged system".

 

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