COMRADE’S COMMANDMENTS: HIS HARD LEFT VISION FOR UK

A REJECTION of austerity plus an old Labour-style belief in more public spending and renationalisation are at the heart of jeremy Corbyn’s blueprint for government.

1 ON AUSTERITY: Ditch spending cuts but get deficit down by taxing the rich as well as cracking down on tax avoidance

2 ON MONEY: Order the Bank of England to print tens of billions of pounds of new bank notes in order to pay for a massive new programme of public spending on housing, energy and transport

3 ON RAILWAYS: Spend billions renationalising both the railways and energy companies. Claims privatisation ‘has put profits before people’

4 ON TAX: Hit middle-income families (people earning over £50,000 a year) with new taxes to help fund a £10 billion plan to scrap tuition fees and restore student maintenance grants. Would rethink the role of free schools and academies

5 ON PROPERTY: Slap rent controls on expensive areas such as Central London to stop ‘social cleansing’ where families on welfare are priced out. Suspend right-to-buy schemes in areas of high housing stress

6 ON WELFARE: Defy plans by the Tory Government for new welfare cutbacks. Claims instead that the welfare bill can be reduced through investment and growth – ‘not squeezing the least well-off’ 7 ON SCHOOLS AND NHS: Create a brand new National Education Service, promising to provide universal childcare. Also pledges a fully-funded NHS and ‘an end to privatisation’

8 ON EUROPE: The famously Eurosceptic Mr Corbyn has refused to rule out campaigning for a ‘No’ vote in the impending referendum – but has said his preferred position is to stay in a reformed EU

9 ON IMMIGRATION: Jeremy Corbyn calls for all refugees now arriving in Europe to be treated with humanity and compassion. Pledges an ‘end to the scapegoating of migrants’. He believes the debate on immigration has been ‘poisoned’

10 ON DEFENCE: Pull out of Nato immediately and scrap Britain’s independent Trident nuclear deterrent, plus he has pledged for ‘no more illegal wars’. and will oppose extending air strikes to Syria. He has suggested that Tony Blair should be tried as a war criminal over invading Iraq