THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO 1979

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on health in real terms than the Tories. Labour will devote a higher proportion of the nation's wealth to the The road building programme will remain at its present level - but we will adopt a more selective approach Margaret Thatcher became Tory Party leader in 1975, replacing former Prime Minister Edward Heath, when he lost the third election – the October 1974 general election – during his time as Party leader. Thatcher’s triumph divided the Party’s One-Nation Conservatives, sceptical of Thatcher’s politics. fundamental change in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families. Give further cash and other help to one-parent families. Raise the burial grant to a more realistic level.

demands for decent homes to rent. But Labour will continue to oppose the sales of council housing in Labour has saved thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland and attracted much investment and industry to the As a next step towards a married couple pension of half gross average earnings and a single person's functions with those of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to ensure that consumers are not exploited Labour will develop the work and funding of the Cooperative Development Agency in expanding cooperative

Sea oil offers a golden prospect as do our reserves of natural gas and coal. We must use these resources Nothing so undermines a nation as inflation. Not only does it make the family's task of budgeting more exercises in our constitution. We propose, therefore, in the next Parliament, to abolish the delaying

for Britain. But many great issues affecting our allies and the world are involved, and a new round of We want a Britain which is open and democratic and which puts fair earnings for working people and thegovernments must step in to help create employment, to limit prices rises, to assist industry to modernize