Drakeford launches manifesto for Welsh Labour

Welsh Labour leadership candidate Mark Drakeford has launched his detailed manifesto for Welsh Labour – and the Welsh government – if he succeeds in his election bid.

The forty-page document outlines his plans for education, the NHS, the economy, employment, Wales’ relationship with Europe, energy, the environment, housing, data use and more. Here are a few highlights:

• lifelong learning as a right
• measures to promote ethical, properly-paid employment
• supporting the ‘foundational economy‘ of goods and services Welsh people need every day
• a raised priority for renewable energy
• a ‘vacant land tax’ and strengthened compulsory purchase powers
• creating modular-housing production in Wales
• new Clean Air Act
• sustainable transport provision compulsory in housing developments
• extended school meals programme, doubled school uniform grant and a new ‘baby bundle’ programme to help new parents
• a new ‘Community Bank of Wales’ to ensure banking services are available across the country, including rural areas

Drakeford also makes a welcome, emphatic statement about the NHS that should be echoed by Labour across the UK:

The health service in Wales must remain a public service, publicly funded and publicly provided. There is no room for privatisation in the Welsh NHS.

The full documents in Welsh and English can be downloaded below:

Welsh
English

Drakeford gave an exclusive, in-depth interview to the SKWAWKBOX last month, which can be read in two parts here.

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