Labour party manifesto pledges to renationalise energy, rail and Royal Mail [View all]

[muriel_volestrangler]

Jeremy Corbyn will lay out plans to take parts of Britain’s energy industry back into public ownership alongside the railways and Royal Mail in a radical manifesto that will also promise an annual injection of £6bn for the NHS and £1.6bn for social care.

A draft document drawn up by the leadership will also pledge a phased abolition of tuition fees, a dramatic boost in finance for childcare, and scrapping the bedroom tax, the Guardian has learned.

Sources say that Corbyn wants to promise a “transformational programme” with a package covering the NHS, education, housing and jobs as well as industrial intervention and sweeping nationalisation.

One central promise will be to build 100,000 new council houses a year and alongside a policy to ban fracking.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/10/labour-party-manifesto-pledges-to-end-tuition-fees-and-nationalise-railways

"Renationalise energy, rail and Royal Mail" seems a broadbrush description - in the article it's "parts", and later "it includes plans for a public owned energy company in every region of the UK"; which seems a more realistic idea, since taking control of all energy companies couldn't be done without making it a compulsory purchase at huge cost.

I suspect the "plans to borrow £250bn to invest in infrastructure" will be attacked as ruining the economy, and that will be the main way the Tories hope to bury this. I think I'd be up for these proposals by now, but whether the average voter will be tempted, I'm not so sure.