fixed categorisation and added green manifesto

conservative.md

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   Rail` and the expansion of Heathrow Airport.  
 * Target `National Productivity Investment Fund` spending at housing, research
   and development, economic infrastructure and skills.
-* Review railticketing and introduce a `Passenger Ombudsman`.
+* Review rail-ticketing and introduce a `Passenger Ombudsman`.
+* Ensure through the `Universal Service Obligation`, that every home and business
+  in Britain has access to high speed broadband. By the end of 2017, 19 out of
+  20 premises will have access to super-fast broadband.
+* By 2022, extend mobile coverage further to 95% geographic coverage of the UK.
+* By 2022, ensure all major roads and mainline trains have uninterrupted phone
+  service and guaranteed WiFi internet on all such trains.
+* Have a majority of the UK population covered by a 5G signal by 2027.
+* Roll out `Verify` so that people can identify themselves on all government
+  services by 2020.
+* Reduce data duplication across all systems, so that we automatically comply
+  with the `Once Only` principle in central government services by 2022 and
+  wider public services by 2025.
 
 ### Industry
 
 * Establish funding streams to ensure investment for the long term.
 * Increase spending on `Research and Development` so that we meet the `OECD`
   average for investment in R&D - 2.4% of GPD within 10 years.
-* Build up the investment funds of our universities across the UK.
 * Create a number of `Sovereign Wealth Funds`, known as `Future Britain Funds`.
 * Ensure that 33% of central government spending is from SME's.
 * Ensure that big companies/contractors comply with the `Prompt Payment Code`.
@@ -64,29 +75,14 @@
 * Oblige all companies to give digital receipts, clearer terms and conditions when
   selling goods and services online, and support new digital proofs of
   identification.
-* By the end of 2017, 19 out of 20 premises will have access to superfast
-  broadband.
-* Ensure through the `Universal Service Obligation`, that every home and business
-  in Britain has access to high speed broadband.
 * Introduce a full fiber connection voucher for companies across the country by
   2018.
-* By 2022, extend mobile coverage further to 95% geographic coverage of the UK.
-* By 2022, ensure all major roads and mainline trains have uninterrupted phone
-  service and guaranteed WiFi internet on all such trains.
-* Have a majority of the UK population covered by a 5G signal by 2027.
-* Give people the ability to require major social media platforms to delete
-  information about them at the age of 18.
 * Institute an expert `Data Use and Ethics Commission`.
 * Continue a £1.9 billion investment in cyber security.
 * Repeal section 40 of the `Crime and Courts Act 2014`.
 * Create a new presumption of digital government services by default.
 * Create a new `Schools Map` to help parents choose the school that is right for
   their child.
-* Roll out `Verify` so that people can identify themselves on all government
-  services by 2020.
-* Reduce data duplication across all systems, so that we automatically comply
-  with the `Once Only` principle in central government services by 2022 and
-  wider public services by 2025.
 * Combine the relevant parts of `HM Land Registry`, `Ordnance Survey`, the
   `Valuation Office Agency`, the `Hydrographic Office` and `Geological Survey`
   to create a comprehensive geospatial data body in government.
@@ -164,6 +160,7 @@
 * Introduce mental health first aid training for teachers in every primary and
   secondary school by the end of parliament and ensure every school has a single
   point of contact with mental health services.
+* Build up the investment funds of our universities across the UK.
 
 ## Environment and Animal Cruelty
 
@@ -280,6 +277,8 @@
 * Invest over £1 billion to modernise the prison estate and creating 10,000
   modern prison places.
 * Create a `National Community Sentencing Framework`.
+* Give people the ability to require major social media platforms to delete
+  information about them at the age of 18.
 
 ### Local Communities
 
@@ -306,7 +305,7 @@
   receiving care at home.
 * Means-test winter fuel payments.
 
-### Diverse Communities
+### Diverse and Cultured Communities
 
 * Require companies with >250 employees to publish more data on the pay gap
   between men and women.

green.md

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+# Green Manifesto
+
+## Economy and Democracy
+
+* Move towards the introduction of `Universal Basic Income`, including
+  the introduction of a government-sponsored pilot scheme.
+* Phase in a 4 day working week with a maximum of 35 hours.
+* Abolish zero-hours contracts.
+* Increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour by 2020.
+* Require 40% of all members of public company and require 40% of all
+  members of public company and public sector boards to be women.
+* Create a network of local people's banks for every city and region.
+* Crackdown on tax dodging.
+* Reform taxation to include a wealth tax on the top 1% of earners.
+* Reinstate the higher level of corporation tax for large businesses.
+* A `Robin Hood Tax` on high value transactions in the finance sector.
+* Inheritance tax calculated according to the wealth of the recipient.
+* Phased-in abolition of the cap on employees' national insurance.
+* Remove VAT from sanitary products, and ensure they are provided free of
+  charge to those in extreme financial need.
+* Lower the voting age to 16.
+* Introduce proportional representation for parliamentary and local
+  elections.
+* Increase diversity in representative politics, with job-shares and a
+  50-50 parliament.
+* Replace the `House of Lords` with an elected second chamber.
+* Defend the `Human Rights Act` and UK membership of the `European
+  Convention on Human Rights`.
+* Reinstate funding for the `Equality and Human Rights Commission`.
+* Give Parliament a vote on any new trade deals.
+
+### Infrastructure
+
+* Bring energy, water, railways, buses, the Royal Mail and care work back
+  into public ownership.
+* Increase funding for local authorities to provide good quality public
+  services.
+* Review the effectiveness of how public services are structured,
+  including assessment how care is provided at the transition age of 18.
+* Re-regulate buses, investing in increased bus services, especially in
+  rural and other poorly served areas.
+* All public transport should be fully accessible and step-free with a
+  phase-in of free local public transport for young people, students,
+  people with disabilities, and older people.
+* Invest in regional rail links and electrification of existing rail  
+  lines.
+* Cancel all airport expansion and end subsidies on airline fuel.
+* Invest in low traffic neighbourhoods and safe/convenient networks for
+  walking and cycling, including safe places for learning to cycle.
+* Invest in more staff at `HMRC`.
+
+### Industry
+
+* Support the roll-out of high speed broadband.
+* Replace fracking, coal power stations and subsidies to fossil fuels and
+  nuclear with clean energy.
+
+### Employment
+
+* Raise national minimum wage to living wage levels for all.
+* Scrap age-related wage bands.
+* Revive the role of democratic trade unions.
+
+## Brexit
+
+* A referendum on the detail of the negotiated deal for Brexit, with the
+  option to reject the deal and remain in the EU.
+* Protect freedom of movement.
+* Press for remaining in the single market.
+* Immediately guarantee the rights of EU citizens to remain in the UK, and
+  seek reciprocal arrangements for UK citizens in the EU.
+* Guarantee the rights of young people to study, work, live and travel in
+  the EU, including through schemes like `Erasmus`.
+
+## Education and Childcare
+
+* Provide more funding for sexual health awareness campaigns.
+* Introduce non-biased political education and promote active citizenship.
+* Free universal early education and childcare for all children, with
+  formal education starting formal education at age 7.
+* Abolish `Ofsted`.
+* Reform the curriculum so that it is pupil-centred.
+* Increase real term spending per pupil, and protect this spending.
+* Bring academies and free schools into the local authority system.
+* Abolish SATS.
+* Reduce class sizes.
+* Scrap university tuition fees and fund full student grants.
+* Greater public investment in further and higher education.
+* Restore `Education Maintenance Allowance`.
+* Enable apprenticeships to all qualified young people aged 16-25.
+
+## Environment and Animal Cruelty
+
+* Introduce an `Environmental Protection Act` to safeguard and restore
+  our environment.
+* A public works programme of insulation to ensure every home is insulated.
+* Invest in flood defenses and natural flood management.
+* Equality of access to nature and green spaces.
+* Limit global temperature increases to well below 2 degrees- aiming for
+  2.5 degrees.
+* Introduce a one-off fine on car manufacturers who cheated the emissions
+  testing regime.
+* Create a new `Clean Air Act` which would expand and fund a clean air
+  zone network.
+* Protection for the `Green Belt`, National Parks, SSSIs and Areas of
+  Outstanding Natural Beauty.
+* Create a wider, more effective network of marine protected areas around
+  our coasts.
+* Introduce `Deposit Return Schemes` with a zero waste target.
+* Increase incentives to take diesel vehicles off the roads.
+
+## Housing
+
+* Introduce a `Living Rent` to all through rent controlls and more secure
+  tenancies for private renters.
+* Put an end to letting fees.
+* Introduce mandatory licencing for all landlords.
+* Support the development of `Renters' Unions`.
+* Start a major programme to build affordable, carbon-zero homes-
+  including 10,000 social rented homes each year by 2022.
+* End mass council house sales.
+* Scrap `Right to Buy` at discounted prices.
+* Abolish the `Bedroom Tax`.
+* Take action on empty homes to bring them back into use.
+* Trial a `Land Value Tax` to encourage the use of vacant land.
+* Axe buy-to-let tax breaks.
+* Improve housing choice for deaf, disabled and older people by requiring
+  all councils to appropriately plan for their housing needs and
+  significantly increase the number of homes built to lifetime home and
+  mobility standards over the next 5 years.
+
+## Healthcare
+
+* Roll back privatisation of the NHS, to ensure that all health and dental
+  services are always publicly provided and funded - and free at the point
+  of access - through the introduction of an `NHS Reinstatement Act`.
+* Scrap NHS `Sustainability and Transformation Plans`.
+* Close the NHS spending gap and provide an immediate cash injection.
+* Provide greater access to free condoms and sexual health clinics.
+
+## Security & Defense
+
+* Cancel `Trident` replacement.
+* End support for aggressive wars of intervention.
+* No more arms sales to oppressive regimes.
+* Strengthen the global deal on climate change, including by delivering
+  climate justice and promoting ecologically sustainable development.
+* End the sale of personal data for commercial or other ends.
+
+### Local Communities
+
+* Reject the `Prevent` strategy.
+* Pursue community-led collaborative approaches to tackling all forms of
+  extremism instead.
+* Protect the BBC.
+* Tighten the rules on media ownership so no individual or company owns
+  more than 20% of the media market.
+
+### Social Services and Security
+
+* Major investment in social care for the elderly and all those who need
+  it.
+* A single budget covering health and social services.
+* Redress pension injustice.
+* Redress benefits injustice.
+* Reinstate housing benefit for under-21s and stop Local Authorities from
+  declaring young people 'intentionally homeless'.
+* Invest in community house-building projects to provide housing options
+  for young people.
+
+### Diverse and Cultured Communities
+
+* Implement a UK-wide strategy to tackle gender-based violence, including
+  domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse, FGM and trafficking.
+* Action to tackle racism and discrimination on the basis of faith,
+  disability, real equality for LGBTIQA+ people, equal rights for mixed
+  gender couples to have Civil Partnership.
+
+### Disabilities and Mental Health
+
+* Introduce mental health awareness training within the public sector.
+* Bring mental health care in line with physical health care through
+  local support networks.
+* Ensure that every child with `Special Educational Needs` or Disability
+  has access to mainstream education, in accordance with the `UN
+  Convention for Persons with Disabilities`.
+
+## Foreign Policy
+
+* Increase the overseas aid budget from 0.7% of GPD to 1.0% of GDP.
+* Implement an immigration and asylum system that recognises and takes
+  responsibility for Britain's ongoing role in causing mass migrations
+  worldwide.

labour.md

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 in residential or other forms of care until they are 21.
 * Fund child burial fees for bereaved parents.
 
-### Diverse Communities
+### Diverse and Cultured Communities
 
 * Appoint a `Violence Against Women Commissioner` to enforce minimum standards in
 tackling domestic and sexual violence.
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ faith.
 * Legislate to make terminal illness a protected characteristic under the
 `Equality Act`.
 * Give British Sign Language full recognition as a recognised language.
+* Introduce a £1 billion `Cultural Capital Fund`.
+* Introduce an arts pupil premium- a £160 million annual boost for schools to
+invest in projects that will support cultural activity.
 
 ### Disabilities and Mental Health
 
@@ -260,12 +263,6 @@ faith.
 and young people.
 * Review the provision of mental health services in prisons.
 
-### Culture and Arts
-
-* Introduce a £1 billion `Cultural Capital Fund`.
-* Introduce an arts pupil premium- a £160 million annual boost for schools to
-invest in projects that will support cultural activity.
-
 ## Foreign Policy
 
 * Publish a strategy for protecting civilians in conflict.