A Manifesto With Opportunity At Its Heart

The Lib Dems have launched their General Election manifesto today. It puts opportunity at its heart and sets out a plan to ensure every child has a world-class education.

The full manifesto includes:

> Opportunity for children: with investment in education from nursery to 19 and qualified teachers in every classroom
> Opportunity for young people: with more apprenticeships, discounted bus travel, a massive increase in housebuilding and support to rent or own their own home through the innovative Help to Rent and Rent to Own schemes
> Opportunity for parents: with more free childcare and more paternity leave for fathers
> Opportunity for workers: with a further £400 tax cut for millions of working people
> Opportunity for older people: with the pensions triple lock written into law and the extra £8bn a year the NHS needs by 2020 to cope with the pressures of an ageing population
> Opportunity for the next generation: with the budget balanced and our environment protected so that our children and grandchildren are not left to pay for the mistakes of this one

Nigel Quinton for SW Herts