To what extent are the current ideas of the Labour Party and Conservative Party similar and different?

To what extent are the current ideas of the Labour Party and Conservative Party similar and different?

The Labour Party and the Conservative Party are said to be the two major parties in the United Kingdom, they in turn create adversarial politics in the UK and are often seen scrutinizing on another's policies. The Labour Party has always been slightly to the left of the political spectrum (Under Corbyn's leadership they're shifting further left) and wishes to edict a socialist manifesto, whereas the Conservatives have always been to the right of the political spectrum and wish to put in place policies centred around the upper and middle classes. Already its clear to see these two parties don't seem very similar, but how true is this?

To begin with lets examine what these two parties agree on. To begin with both Parties wish to increase funding for the NHS, the Labour Party, who created the Welfare State and NHS, wish to put this in place immediately via taxation. Where as the Conservatives will increase funding but this will be achieved over time (8 billion by 2020). Additionally both parties agree that migrants should wait a particular number of years before they are allowed to claim benefits, the Conservatives want this to be 4 years whilst Labour thinks it should 2 years, it seems that the two parties agree on certain policies, but have conflicting ideas on the time scale or way of getting it achieved. When discussing the environment both parties seem to have similar ideas , both parties agree that renewable energy should be increasingly funded and that the UK should produce 0% emissions by 2020/2030. Furthermore both Labour and the Conservatives wish to build 200,000 new houses across the UK and ensure that first time buyers are helped in gaining a property. 

Now on the other hand lets look at the various policies they disagree on. Firstly Defence, the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn wish to dismantle the Trident Nuclear Arsenal, in order to promote 'Global Nuclear Disarmament' , the Conservative Party however have the opposite idea, they see the necessity of a Nuclear Deterrent and wish to keep and upgrade Trident in order to promote security. Labours stance on environmental issues also differs to that of the Conservative Party, Labour wishes the Badger culling as well as hunting with dogs. The Conservatives do not wish to outlaw this tradition and instead attempts to focus on creating a zero emissions UK, clearly at the expense of animals. In terms of Law and Order in the UK the parties differ in authoritarian elements. For example many of the Conservative policies wish to cripple the rise of extremism, they plan to create banning orders for extremist groups as well as 'Extremism Disruption Orders' if people are caught spreading 'Poison'. The Labour Party on the other hand is very liberal in its approach and only wish to overhaul the extremist prevention programme, in a hope to reduce the spread of extremism. 

Overall the policies of the two parties mainly disagree and conflict with one another, only a small number of said policies are similar and even then the finer details offer differ (e.g time taken to implement or the way of achieving said policy). The two parties stick closer to their affiliated sides of the spectrum, the Conservatives want to promote British values whilst not putting the economy at risk, where as Labour wants to aid the working class in as many ways possible. Considering Corbyn is taking Labour back to its hard Socialist roots its likely that adversarial politics will continue, unchanged for years to come.