UK Labour leader lays out vision for the future

Published September 23, 2014 4:49pm ET



LONDON (AP) — Britain’s opposition leader Ed Miliband laid out his vision Tuesday for the country’s top job ahead of national elections in 2015, offering a 10-year-blueprint for the future.

In the last Labour Party Conference before the May election, the party’s leader promised thousands more doctors and nurses as part of a 2.5 billion pound ($4 billion) investment in the National Health Service — a sum to be paid for in part by taxes on tobacco companies and a “mansion tax” levy on homes worth more than 2 million pounds.

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