We believe in fairness and that is why we will abolish council tax which penalises pensioners and families on low incomes replacing it with a fair local income tax.
I want to put patients first in the NHS. We will stop Whitehall red tape and absurd targets from running the NHS. Instead we will let doctors and nurses take the clinical decisions.
Liberal Democrats have one tax-raising proposal a 50 per cent top rate of income tax on incomes over £100,000 per year.
We will use that money to scrap tuition fees and top-up fees and to pay for free personal care for the elderly.
We will have directly-elected civilian police commissioners and local boards to which the police will be answerable and with whom they will set policing priorities that reflect local concerns.
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