Rate the parties from 0 to 5 - depending how close you think they come to your views

Rate the parties from 0 to 5 - depending how close you think they come to your views.Total the scores at the bottom of the page opposite and vote for the party to which you give the highest score. Alternatively, you could just use a pin.EducationCONSERVATIVE School performance targets, with action taken to bring under- performers up to mark. Inspection of local education authorities, with remedial action when required. More delegation to schools; more specialist schools and a grammar school, if wanted, in every major town. Nursery vouchers, education or training credits to be introduced.LABOUR Nursery places to be provided for all four-year-olds. Class sizes to be cut to 30 or fewer for all pupils of 5, 6, and 7, financed by phase- out of assisted places scheme Ministers to close and restart failing schools.

Open University-style University of Industry.LIB DEM Nursery education for children of 3 and 4 whose parents want it, as first call on pounds 2bn annual spending programme. Five-year pledge: to limit class sizes to 30 for all children 5-11; and spend pounds 500m on school repair backlog. Double year-one spend on school books and equipmentCrimeCONSERVATIVE Mandatory prison sentences for persistent burglars and drug- dealers; automatic life terms for anyone convicted of second serious sexual or violent crime Extra 10,000 public place CCTV cameras by 1999 Voluntary ID cards. Speedy court sanctions for young offenders, including electronic curfews and Parental Control Orders.LABOUR Halving of time to get persistent young offenders from arrest to sentence. Parental responsibility orders, to make parents face up to child's misbehaviour, community safety orders for bad neighbours, and child protection orders for youngsters left out too late at night.

Free vote on total handgun ban.LIB DEM Extra 3,000 police officers on beat within a year. Encourage community sentences as alternative to prison, using prison where essential for public protection or effective punishment Councils to get crime prevention powers Royal Commission on drugs. Witness and victim support schemes to be developed.TaxCONSERVATIVE Around 2m one-taxpayer couples to get extra pounds 17.50 from transfer of married partner's unused tax allowance to working spouse, where partner looking after dependants. Five-year Parliament, "aim" to reduce basic rate income tax to 20p. Cuts in burden of capital gains tax and inheritance tax "as prudent".LABOUR Five-year pledge of no increase in income tax rates Long-term objective of 10p starting rate income tax VAT on domestic fuel and power reduced to 5 per cent. No extension of VAT to food, children's clothes, books, newspapers or public transport fares. Windfall tax on privatised utilities.LIB DEM Penny on basic rate income tax - 24p - to raise pounds 2bn a year for education Higher rate of 50p for taxable income over pounds 100,000.