LONDON, April 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Britain's Labor Party headed by Prime Minister Tony Blair launched its election manifesto on Wednesday pledging "opportunity and security" for everyone and "stability and prosperity" to hard-working families and business entrepreneurs.

    "We'll raise the minimum wage of hard-working families, keep investment rising in schools, cut crime and the fear of crime, have strict controls on immigration, give asylum to genuine refugees and take radical action on climate change and the environment," said Blair.

    The Labor manifesto highlights the party's intention to maintain its record of economic stability in which inflation, interest rates and unemployment rates remain low.

    Pledging "a better, stronger and fairer" Britain than the Britain it inherited from the Conservatives in 1997, Blair and the Labor Party pledged to safeguard traditional values while allowing "everyone to fill their potential" and to provide health and education "tailored to individual needs."

    Unlike the 27-page manifesto by the Conservatives unveiled on Monday, Labor's manifesto -- which Blair hails as "ambitious and radical" -- is contained in a 110-page novel-size book.

    This week will witness the unveiling of the manifestos of all the contesting parties.

    The Conservative Party was the first to publish its election pledges Monday followed Tuesday by the Green Party.

    The Greens want to withdraw British troops from Iraq and replace Value Added Tax with an "eco tax". The party says it is putting "planet, peace and people" at the center of its policies and believes the threat of climate change is greater than the threat from international terrorism.

    Keith Taylor, the Green Party's main speaker, noted that although his party has no chance of taking power in the May 5 election, voting Green is not a wasted vote as the main parties will not properly address environmental issues.

    The party's prime aim is to have a Green elected to Parliament for the first time.

    The opposition Liberal Democratic Party has postponed its manifesto launch from Tuesday to later this week due to the birth of a son to party leader Charles Kennedy.

    Three voter polls over the weekend indicated that Labor leads its closest rivals, the Conservatives, by between two and seven percent with the Liberal Democrats some 14 percent adrift of Labor.Enditem