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Originally Posted by Flyboy
How about:
* Introduced a smoking ban in all enclosed spaces including pubs, restaurants and offices.
* Abolition of section 28.
* Relative Peace in Northern Ireland.
* Civil partnerships
* Free bus travel nationwide for the over 60s
* Free NHS prescriptions and eye sight tests for the over 60s
* Devolved power to Scotland
* Paid paternity leave for dads for the first time
* Tax-free Winter Fuel Payment to every pensioner household.
* Free central heating for everyone receiving Pension Credit.
* Restored London Government
* Free TV licenses for over 75s
* Free breast cancer screening for those 50-70
* The cleanest beaches, rivers, drinking water and air than at any time since before the industrial revolution.
* Paid maternity leave increased to 52 weeks
* Number of apprenticeships doubled
* 1,100 new schools built or old schools rebuilt good
* Everyone over 60 free access to local swimming pools
* Devolved power to Wales
* Child Benefit increased by 26% since 1997
* Everyone now has the legal right to four week’s paid holiday.
* The largest hospital building programme since the NHS began: 149 hospitals built or being built, the Tories built one.
* Tax free personal allowances for pensioners now at least £9,030.
* There are 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors in the NHS than in 1997.
* Nurses pay increased by 58%
* Free bus travel for disabled people.
* The minimum wage.
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I have reduced the list. Taking out ones which are controversial, open to interpretation (i.e more police on streets) or ones that could be considered part of a international trend (i.e cancer survival rates).