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Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News
Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.