Gordon Brown today attempted to revive his political fortunes with a radical new agenda for government.
The Building Britain's Future document being unveiled by the prime minister contained a series of policy shifts designed to give people more power over public services.
It is likely to form the basis for Labour's policy platform for the next general election and contains proposals for:
Providing a job, training or work experience for every young person out of work for more than a year.
A £150m innovation fund designed to attract £1bn of private sector funding.
Building 20,000 new affordable homes in the next two years, creating 45,000 jobs.
A major expansion of private sector involvement in health provision.
The scrapping of "top-down" targets across services.
Making the current 18-week NHS waiting list target an obligation.
Free health checks for anybody between the age of 40 and 74.
Cancer patients to be given the right to private healthcare if NHS hospitals cannot see them within two weeks.
New rights to one-on-one tuition will be extended into early secondary education.
Allowing local authorities to give housing priority to people with ties to the community.
A "significant" expansion of funding for social housing.