This morning the Labour party released their Education manifesto A better plan for Education. Here, we use the Political Futures Tracker to provide a bite sized summary of top themes. We tell you what sentiment Labour are expressing about these themes and how future thinking they are about most mentioned big issues.

We can see that Schools are the overwhelming focus of the manifesto with over 270 mentions of related sub-topics in the 25 page document.

The impact of education on employment and the labour market is addressed in the context of Employment and the UK Economy - positions two and three on the top themes chart. The manifesto anwers the question - What will a Labour government do for young people in Britain? This outlines the focus on children and young people in the party's education agenda, and as such, Children and young people is in the top five highly mentioned manifesto themes.

Schools are top of the agenda in Labour's Education manifesto

Within the top themes there are a number of sub themes, or specific topics that Labour mention. Again, we can see that schools are top of the list, with Teachers, Skills and Childcare in the top 10.

This ties into one of Labour's key points where they suggest they will put Sure Start Centres back at the centre of communities and oblige them to provide childcare.

The theme Children and young people is mentioned in a highly positive way in the manifesto, with some negative references (which often relate to alleged failures of policy). Employment is mentioned in a net negative way, for example ...

Community and society is used by the Labour party in a positive way, and in the manifesto is used in the context of societal vibrancy and development of a stronger economy.

Negative mentions of Employment tend to stem from critiques of the education system and its ability to provide for young people for the future.

This links to Labour's key policy points from the manifesto, which includes tackling failing schools and making sure children are taught by qualified teachers.

Future thinking analysis automatically identifies words that are time sensitive, and codes the extent to which a theme is being written about in a past, present or future context. This tool allows us to compare and contrast how future thinking political texts or tweets are from parties, individual politicians and candidates. We see that Labour's Education manifesto concludes with a highly positive and future thinking statement...

Positive sentiment is often tied to the degree to which themes are mentioned in a forward thinking way. Schools, the UK economy and Employment are the top three themes to which future thinking is most closely associated.

Schools, Higher Education and Employment are all mentioned in a future context in Labour's Education manifesto

Compare this to the Labour Party's Business manifesto that we also analysed using the Political Futures Tracker, and we can see that the UK economy, Employment and Regulation reform feature in the top 10 forward thinking themes for both.

Labour's Business manifesto mentions top themes - Business and enterprise, the UK economy and Financial services - in a future thinking way ...

In Business manifesto top themes, we see the high frequency mentions of Schools, Community and Society and Welfare. This is also reflected in today's Education manifesto release, and ties into Labour's statement of core party values which include social justice, strong community and strong values.

We will be conducting analysis on the manifestos of all major UK political parties running up to the election, as well as real time analysis of major televised debates. Stay tuned to the Political Futures Tracker for the latest on key political analysis.