This isn’t just a manifesto for working people, it’s by working people

Our manifesto is based on the idea that Britain only succeeds when working people succeed. It is a plan to build a better future, where hard work is rewarded and where everyone has the chance to share in prosperity.

Over the last five years we’ve been making policy differently in the Labour Party. We’ve had conversations in town halls and in front rooms in every part of the UK. We’ve had hundreds of thousands of people tell us what they think of our policies online. And today we are publishing our manifesto online in a way that means people can personalise it to their concerns and aspirations.

This isn’t just a manifesto for working people: it’s a manifesto by working people.

What we’ve heard as we’ve talked to the people of Britain has had a real impact. On immigration, on the need to fix broken markets, on the need to devolve power so that it is closer to people – we have listened, and our policy has changed.

We’re also clear about something else. We can only secure family finances if we secure the nation’s finances, too. That’s why not a single one of our manifesto policies is unfunded, in stark contrast to the Tories who have in the last week alone announced unfunded, unbelievable pre-election bribes costing nearly £10 billion.

For most of the 20th century we could just accept that when the country did well, family finances improved as well. But recently that link has been broken, and the Tories in government have been making it worse. While they’ve been giving tax cuts to hedge funds and millionaires, more and more working people have been forced in to insecure, low paid work and living standards are worse now than they were in 2010.

The choice at this election is a clear one.  Extreme and dangerous cuts to public services from the Tories, or Labour’s plan to build a high-skill, high-wage economy based on fairer taxation and common sense spending reductions.

Unfunded, hollow promises from a panicking Tory campaign, or credible plans for an NHS with the time to care, better living standards, and a brighter future for all our young people.

A country under the Tories where a few at the top continue to do better and better while everyone else is left behind. Or Labour’s plan for a country that does better because working people are doing better.

As Labour’s parliamentary candidate in Wallasey, I’ll be proud to stand on this manifesto at the election, and as a member of the Shadow Cabinet I’ll be even prouder to help enact it. It is our plan for the working people of Britain, and it is a plan that will turn this country around.

Angela Eagle is the Labour candidate for Wallasey and is Shadow Leader of the House of Commons