General election 2017: manifesto word count – in data

Jeremy Corbyn holds up the Labour manifesto, in which the word ‘rights’ is the joint-ninth most used word.If you are the kind of person who spent hours poring over the detail of the manifestos of the UK’s three largest political parties this week (and let’s face it, who among us did not) then you may have noticed some common ground among the language they use.Analysis of the top 10 words used in the parties’ 2017 manifestos show they have six words in common.