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Underwriting bank lending
Lib A 10% levy on bank profits until the system can be broken up
Con Installation of a National Loan Guarantee Scheme to underwrite bank lending to businesses
GP Regulate banking
Lib Would break up the banking system to ensure the taxpayer no longer underwrites high risk banking
Unemployment
Con Introduction of a new programme for everyone who is unemployed
State Pensions
GP Provide satisfactory pensions
Con Hold a review to consider bringing forward the planned rise in the state pension age
Social Care
GP Provide free social care for older people
Public investment
GP Invest in public transport and in waste management
Lab Increased spending to support British science and innovation
Lib Reallocation of £3.5 billion to 'job rich capital projects'
Defence spending
Lib Scrap unnecessary defence projects
Environment
GP Invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency
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Economic policies
House building
GP Create more affordable housing for rent
Corporation Tax
UKIP Cut corporation taxes
Con Reduction of the headline rate of Corporation Tax from 28p to 25p as a first step to lower business taxes…
GP Introduce a Tobin tax on speculative currency exchanges
Con funded by a reduction in complex allowances
Con Reduce corporation tax to 20p for small businesses
Lab Reduction in the main rate of Corporation Tax
Employment Tax
Con Would abolish all tax on jobs created by new companies for two years after election.
Con Any new business started in the first two years after the election will pay no Employer National Insurance …
Con on the first ten employees it hires during its first year
Council Tax
Con Freeze on council tax for two years by reducing Government spending on Consultants and advertising
Mansion Tax
Lib Introduction of 'Mansion Tax'
Inheritance Tax
UKIP Scrap Inheritance Tax
Con Would raise the Inheritance Tax threshold to £1 million…
Con by charging a flat-rate levy on UK residents of foreign origin who are tax-domiciled offshore
Stamp Duty
Con Would take 9 out of 10 first time buyers out of Stamp Duty
Tax loopholes
GP Close tax loopholes
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Economic policies
Employment Law
BNP Preference in the job market to be given to native Britons
Monopolies
BNP Break up of supermarket company monopolies
British ownership
BNP Restoration of British economy and land to British ownership
Employee ownership
BNP Encouragement of worker shareholder and co-operative schemes
Made in Britain
UKIP Re-enter Commonwealth and encourage UK manufacturing
BNP Selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports
BNP Ensure manufactured goods are wherever possible produced in British factories, employing British workers
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