Labour believes in land nationalisation and will work towards it, but as a first step the State and the local authorities must have wider and speedier powers to acquire land for public purposes wherever the public interest so requires. By good food and good homes, much avoidable ill-health can be prevented. In addition the best health services should be available for all. Money must no longer be the passport to the best treatment. In the new National Health Service there should be health centres where the people may get the best that modern science can offer, more and better hospitals, and proper conditions for our doctors and nurses.
More research is required into the causes of disease and the ways to prevent and cure it.
A healthy, family life must be fully ensured and parenthood must not be penalised if the population of Britain is to be prevented from dwindling. The Labour Party has played a leading part in the long campaign for proper social security for all-social provision against rainy days, coupled with economic policies calculated to reduce rainy days to a minimum. Labour led the fight against the mean and shabby treatment which was the lot of millions while Conservative Governments were in power over long years. A Labour Government will press on rapidly with legislation extending social insurance over the necessary wide field to all. . . . No domestic policy, however wisely framed and courageously applied, can succeed in a world still threatened by war.