General election 2019: What Labour left out of their manifesto, from private school ban to free movement for all The party has rejected a number of policies which were approved by activists at the Labour conference

Labour has announced a package of radical policies, raising public spending and funding it with tax hikes for the rich and big business.

Jeremy Corbyn is adamant the party’s manifesto is fully funded, meaning it won’t lead to a black hole in the public finances.

But in some ways, what was missing from the document is as eye-catching as what was included.

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Labour left out a number of key policies endorsed by activists at the party conference in September – and also failed to provide figures for some of its most controversial plans.

Private schools

At the Labour conference, party members overwhelmingly voted for a policy of abolishing private education and taking the property of elite schools into state ownership.

They agreed that universities should be banned from taking a greater proportion of privately educated students than in the country as a whole – which would remove a major reason parents send their children to private schools.

But the manifesto says only: “We will close the tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools and use that money to improve the lives of all children, and we will ask the Social Justice Commission to advise on integrating private schools and creating a comprehensive education system.”

Net zero by 2030

Labour conference voted to “work towards a path to net zero carbon emissions by 2030”, as opposed to the current Government target of eliminating emissions by 2050.

The party’s manifesto has watered down that pledge, saying “Our Green New Deal aims to achieve the substantial majority of our emissions reductions by 2030” and naming “the 2030s” as the time when net zero can be achieved.

Free movement for all

Delegates at the conference endorsed a motion to “maintain and extend free movement rights” – several of those who drew up the policy have said they intended that it would mean giving all migrants the right to live and work in the UK as EU citizens do currently.

The manifesto promises to “recognise the social and economic benefits that free movement has brought”, and to make it easier to bring family members to Britain, but does not promise to extend free movement beyond Europe.

Wider tax rises

Mr Corbyn is adamant that his promised £82.9bn in spending increases can be delivered without increasing taxes on 95 per cent of the British population.

Paul Johnson, director of the non-partisan Institute for Fiscal Studies, insisted that claim was “simply not credible”, telling ITV: “You cannot raise that kind of money in our tax system without affecting individuals.”

Cost of nationalisation

Labour’s detailed costing of its policies excludes the wide-ranging plans to nationalise water, Royal Mail, energy networks, trains, buses and internet services.

The party argues that these would pay for themselves, because every asset would produce a revenue stream which would go straight back to the state. But they would nonetheless add a large amount, if unspecified, to the national debt.