Who should I vote for? Election 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
* £5bn to support getting broadband to the hardest-to-reach 20% of the country
* £1bn research and development investment in the UK car industry
* Extend business rates discounts for small shops to 50%

* £150bn investment in schools, hospitals and housing
* £250bn of public investment into energy, housing and transport through a national transformation fund
* A further £250bn in loans for a new national investment bank and a network of regional development banks
* 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
* No income tax, National Insurance or VAT increases for 95% of the population

* £100bn plus investment in infrastructure, including renewable energy, transport and housing
* £5bn investment in a new Green Investment Bank to attract private investment for public projects
* Install hyper-fast, fibre optic broadband across the UK and extend superfast broadband to all rural properties
* Double innovation and research spending

* 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

* Develop alternatives to GDP as an economic measure
* Invest in and support new technologies to create new green jobs
* Reduce National Insurance contributions for small businesses
* 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”

* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour
* An industrial strategy to deliver high-wage, high-skill jobs
* Ask large corporations to pay more

* 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