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No.
Labour are promising the biggest expansion of workers' rights in decades and the most ambitious environmental policies in history, while the Conservatives are promising a whole load of impossible tax cuts. It's totally fine, of course, to believe Labour could and should go further - and I agree. But to say they're proposing almost the same things is, as a matter of plain fact, untrue.
You made me interested in what exactly they're promising, so I tracked down their manifesto.
The fines on river and ocean polluting sounds long overdue. Hardly revolutionary (every EU country does this) but it's definitely needed from some headlines I've read. There's also some stuff there about taxing oil and gas companies. That's honestly a good thing! Wouldn't exactly call that incredibly ambitious though.
EDIT: My eyes completely glossed over the "Clean Power by 2030" investment plan somehow. That sounds pretty great, and definitely counts as ambitious. My napkin math says 95 GW of electricity could power about 18 million homes, which according to this is more than half of UK homes. Pretty ambitious.
I couldn't find anything in there about workers' rights though. Maybe I missed something?
EDIT2: Why wasn't Starmer mentioning any of this in the debate, I wonder?
That's the local election manifesto from earlier this year. I was baffled for a moment because I thought you'd somehow found the supposedly top secret GE manifesto before it launches tomorrow!
The full manifesto will be published tomorrow but the broad outlines of the workers' rights expansion are here. It repeals a lot of the restrictions on trade union activity and gives workers more direct legal rights.