Corbyn launches most radical Labour manifesto for decades
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to increase public sector pay by 5% if Labour wins the election.
The party's radical manifesto, launched in Birmingham today, says all public sector workers would get a pay rise of 5% - an average of £1,643 from April 2020.
After 2020, Labour promised to deliver year-on-year above-inflation pay rises...to reward and retain the people who do so much for us all.
Labour said the 105-page manifesto was fully costed, as was the Liberal Democrats manifesto launched on Wednesday.
Labour says it would raise an additional £82.9bn through a variety of taxes, including increasing income tax for the richest 5% and those earning more than £80,000, raising corporation tax and extending stamp duty reserve tax for financial transactions.
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