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Who should Britain work for - the many or the few?

Every policy choice, every debate, in this election campaign boils down to that one question.

We know what a country run for the few looks like. Tax cuts and runaway pay at the very top. Falling living standards, job insecurity, and a shredded NHS for everyone else.

Even worse, it is a country rigged against the young. What sort of set-up leaves young people burdened with debt at the very start of their working lives and not even daring to dream of getting a home of their own.

It is past time to do things differently – to challenge the elite and their cosy consensus.

Labour’s manifesto sets out our detailed plan – the boldest of its kind in generations – to transform the lives of people across Britain and give them back a real stake in their own country’s success.

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This includes ensuring everyone is paid at least a living wage of £10 an hour by 2020.

Our pledge to build over one million homes over the next five years – at least half of them for social rent – will put hope back in many families’ lives.

We will scrap tuition fees to make education accessible to all, and give young people a debt-free start. And of course we will give the NHS the money it needs to cut waiting lists.

Labour is the only Party with a commitment to keep the “triple lock” which protects pensioners’ incomes.

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And we will end the scandal of “zero-hour contracts” as part of our package of new rights to create dignity for all in the workplace.

Our National Investment Bank will help direct investment into major projects to give Britain the infrastructure of the future, creating skilled jobs as we do.

Most of this will cost money of course, but Labour’s proposals are fully costed and will be funded by asking the richest to pay a bit more, as well as clamping down on tax evasion.

Britain will get none of this from the “nasty Party” – Theresa May’s words to describe the Tories, not mine. Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric.

Their commitment is, as ever, to the rich and powerful.

Only Labour offers hope in this election. Perhaps that is why the Prime Minister is running scared of a debate with me.

But I am confident that when the British people decide, it will be for hope – and Labour.