Who should I vote for? General election 2019 policy guide

* Introduce new fiscal rules, including maintaining a balanced budget – not spending more than is brought in – and ensuring investment does not exceed 3% of GDP * Postpone scheduled corporation tax cut – from 19% to 17% – to save £6bn * £5bn to support getting broadband to the hardest-to-reach 20% of the country * £1bn research and development investment in the UK car industry * Review business rates in England – including extending discounts for small shops to 50% – and cut National Insurance contributions for employers by £1,000

* £400bn national transformation fund, including £250bn for energy, transport and the environment, and £150bn for schools, hospitals and housing * A further £250bn in loans for a new national investment bank and a network of regional development banks – with oversight from devolved governments * Rail, mail, water and the energy grid taken back into public ownership and free full fibre broadband for every home and business in the UK by 2030 * Create one million more jobs in the UK and a give a 5% increase to public sector workers in first year * Increase corporation tax to 26%

* £130bn investment in infrastructure, including renewable energy, transport and housing * Scrap business rates and replace them with a commercial, landowner levy * Restore corporation tax to 20% and abolish the capital gains tax allowance * £5bn investment in a new Green Investment Bank to attract private investment for public projects * £2bn to ensure access to high-speed broadband across the UK

* Flat rate of 30% for pensions tax relief * International tax avoidance treaty, enforced through a new body at the United Nations * Stronger government oversight of regulators, and an emphasis on the “public benefit interest” of corporate governance * Establish a long-term “fiscal trigger” mechanism that would advise governments on the level of stimulus required over the medium and long term

* Borrow £94.4bn a year to pay for capital expenditure – such as building low-carbon homes, upgrading transport infrastructure and creating low-carbon jobs * An extra £124.4bn a year made from a number of tax changes – including raising corporation tax to 24% * Invest in and support new technologies to create new green jobs * Reduce National Insurance contributions for small businesses and set up a network of regional mutual banks to provide funding for start-up companies * Introduce fines for big businesses that fail to pay small businesses on time

* £200bn spending programme on left-behind regions and road and rail projects – with money coming from scrapping HS2, not paying the EU divorce bill and halving aid spending * High-speed wifi rolled out across the country * Business rates cut to zero outside the M25 to help High Streets thrive * Abolish inheritance tax * Regenerate coastal communities with new investment, jobs and tourism

* Raise personal tax allowance to £13,000 * Abolish inheritance tax * Strengthen economic ties with the Commonwealth * Remove VAT from domestic fuel, sanitary products and repairs to commercial, residential, historic and listed buildings * £50bn in government loans to fund a 20-year manufacturing expansion programme

* £5bn EU transformation fund for Wales to tackle social inequality * Ultra-fast broadband and 5G mobile signal across Wales * Double funding for Visit Wales and cut tourism VAT

* Protect Scotland’s “fair and progressive” tax system * Invest £2bn in Scotland’s economy by establishing a Scottish national investment bank * Oppose any proposed increase in VAT or National Insurance * Secure Scotland’s membership of the European single market and the customs union, protecting access for Scottish business

* Stronger focus on productivity and competitiveness issues * Investment in skills training through apprenticeships, further education and hybrid apprenticeship degrees * Strengthening NI’s research base, and combating threats from Brexit

* Create 50,000 jobs through a rural jobs focus, investment in skills and reducing the corporation tax rate to 10% * Pursue greater Brexit readiness cash allocations to Northern Ireland departments * Support the creation of UK prosperity funds, which reflect Northern Ireland’s regional needs and priorities

* Create more “well-paid jobs”, promote regional balance, reduce carbon emissions, and raise productivity * Foster an open, rights-based society that a range of people want to live, work, and invest in * Strengthen the all-Ireland economy and align the north with the higher growth rate in the south * Prioritise rural areas for broadband investment

* Provide regionally balanced investment in infrastructure, job creation and young workers * Support traditional primary, manufacturing and services sectors while prioritising new sectors where there is potential for growth and exports

* Aim for 20% of the NI economy to come from manufacturing industries * Reduce corporation tax * Make NI tourism a £1bn industry by 2020

* UK-wide “shared prosperity fund” to replace EU structural funds post-Brexit * Reform business rates in Wales

* A focus on the “foundation” economy – essential goods and services that communities depend on, namely tourism, food, retail and care * A development bank has been launched * Public sector procurement to use Wales-based firms where possible * Create 100,000 all-age apprenticeships between 2016-21 * 30 hours free childcare for three and four-year-olds

* Reform the business rates system, prioritising the digital economy * Support the creation of a Welsh Development Bank

* A “green new deal”, transforming the way the economy works * Create high-quality jobs and end workplace exploitation * Tackle wage inequality * Introduce a universal basic income * Phase in a four-day week

* £200bn spending programme on left-behind regions and road and rail projects – with money coming from scrapping HS2, not paying the EU divorce bill and halving aid spending * High-speed wifi rolled out across the country * Business rates cut to zero outside the M25 to help High Streets thrive * Abolish inheritance tax * Regenerate coastal communities with new investment, jobs and tourism

* Stop increasing income tax differences between Scotland and the rest of the UK * £1bn deal with mobile phone companies to tackle rural “not-spots”

* £100bn of additional resources in Scotland over the next 10 years 8 £20bn in loans for a new Scottish National Investment Bank with lending power to deliver funds to local projects and small businesses * Rail, mail and the energy grid taken back into public ownership and free full fibre broadband for every home and business in the UK by 2030. Water is already in public ownership in Scotland. * Ask large corporations to pay more by increasing corporation tax to 26% * Public sector chief executives to earn no more than 20 times someone on the living wage – meaning a maximum salary of about £350,000

* Stop Brexit and the “damage” it would do to the economy * Programme of capital investment to stimulate growth across all areas of the UK * Double research spending across the economy * High speed broadband for every home and business

* £200bn spending programme on left-behind regions and road and rail projects – with money coming from scrapping HS2, not paying the EU divorce bill and halving aid spending * High-speed wifi rolled out across the country * Business rates cut to zero outside the M25 to help High Streets thrive * Abolish inheritance tax * Regenerate coastal communities with new investment, jobs and tourism

* Ditch “neoliberal” economics for good * Create 200,000 jobs by 2035 in Scotland’s renewables industry, energy efficiency, forestry and North Sea decommissioning * Create a government-led “Scottish Green New Deal” to invest in green industrialisation * Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a “real living wage” * Trial a four-day working week

* Introduce a progressive local income tax in place of the current rates system * Oppose privatisation of any public services, including private finance initiative (PFI) projects * Oppose the reduction of corporation tax in NI

* Wealth tax of 2% per year introduced for the wealthiest 1% of people * Scrap planned reduction in corporation tax and increase it to 30% for bigger companies * Introduce a “radical” reform of inheritance tax * Increase the Northern Ireland block grant from Westminster