Key Points
The United Kingdom elections for the lower house are scheduled for July 4, 2024, with the two major political parties engaging in a battle to secure the majority..
The two major political parties of the United Kingdom are the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, both having dominated the United Kingdom political scene for the past 100 years...
The Labour Party, considered as the voice of the working class, is a progressive party that stands for social justice and believes in a stronger government involvement in the economy, as opposed to the Conservatives who believe in a free and liberal economic policy..
However, there is a growing distaste amongst healthcare workers in the United Kingdom as they constantly have to go on strike and fight for a pay rise.. A pay hike would not be possible without better economic policies, for which the party wants to create a National Wealth Fund to spur investments in future technologies like clean energy, which would reduce their dependence on the import of fuel and build Britain into a clean energy superpower...
The manifesto will be released ahead of the elections, while the party has still made public statements about reducing inflation and presented facts that the UK economy is growing faster than France, Germany and the United States of America...
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