12 May 2017 - UK General Elections: Labour Manifesto Leaked to the Press
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Labour's manifesto officially confirmed after embarrassing leak to pressBen Kentish (The Independent, 11/05/2017)
Labour’s election manifesto has been “unanimously” agreed after the party held its “Clause V’ meeting that, according to its rules, must take place to sign off its plan for government.
The gathering, held at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Westminster, took place after the entirety of the draft manifesto had been leaked to media the night before.
Party officials had gone to great lengths to keep the document secure; even shadow ministers had not been shown anything more than the pages relating to their policy briefs.
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'Nobody's Ignored, Nobody's Forgotten'
Warren Murray (The Guardian, 12/05/2017)
Our editorial says Labour’s manifesto is a bold step but some of the promises – like taking the National Grid into state hands – would just bog down a government. In other election pledges, both the Lib Dems and Labour are promising to double the length of paid paternity leave to at least a month if they get into power.
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Unanimous
(BBC News, 11/05/2017)
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the party's manifesto has been "unanimously agreed" and will be published "in the next few days".
A draft version was leaked which included policies on nationalising railways and renewing Trident weapons.
Mr Corbyn said that had been "amended" and he believed its policies would be "very popular" with voters.
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Doctor Who
(The Daily Mash, 11/05/2017)
Labour's manifesto promises to reverse decades of free-market mismanagement and return Tom Baker to his rightful position as Doctor Who.
The leaked manifesto claims the ‘Thatcherite’ Peter Davison era was a ‘betrayal of the working classes’, and that it, and all subsequent incarnations, would be declared invalid.
Jeremy Corbyn said: “There has only ever been one, true Doctor Who and we all know it.
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12 May 2017 - UK General Elections: Labour Manifesto Leaked to the Press, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), mai 2017. Consulté le 02/01/2025. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/key-story/archives-revue-de-presse-2017/12-may-2017-uk-general-elections-labour-manifesto-leaked-to-the-press