Our Plans

• 50,000 more nurses

Except that figure includes approximately 18,500 nurses already in the system who will apparently would otherwise have left. No mention of how these "new" nurses will be retained given the number of medical staff currently burning out of the system.

New nurses will also be encouraged by effectively bringing back the old bursary, which was scrapped two years ago. By the Tories.

• Build and fund 40 new hospitals

Except this includes six existing hospitals that are merely being given an "upgrade", and 21 hospital trusts that are being given £100m in seed funding to prepare a business case for their hospitals, but no money for any actual building work.

• 20,000 more police

Except this is only more compared to the number of police right now. It's a restoration of the numbers that were in place before the Tories came to power.

• Tougher sentencing for criminals

Even though the overwhelming weight of evidence suggests that a less "tough" penal system that focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment is more effective in preventing prisoners from reoffending on release.

• Raise the national insurance threshold to £9,500 next year, with an “ultimate ambition” of increasing it further, to £12,500.

Which comes with a £11bn price tag. Paying for this is suspiciously absent. Yet apparently there's no money for the Waspi women.

It also proportionately benefits the wealthy most - the Institute of Fiscal Studies described it as an "extremely blunt instrument" if the intention was to help lower paid workers - improving in-work benefits would have a much more targeted effect for the poorest working households.