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4 | Explainer - This document is designed to track policy announcements against key issue areas chosen by the Public First team. - Policy positions are displayed only if parties have publicly announced or confirmed them during the campaign (i.e. since 22/05/24). Existing positions (such as Labour's National Policy Forum documents, or government policies which have not been re-committed to during the campaign) are not included. Manifesto positions are being included as they are released. In the meantime, there will be lots of gaps! This should be a useful way to track which important areas are yet to have been addressed by the parties during the campaign, and which areas the parties are choosing to highlight. - If you think we've missed anything, please let us know. Email thomas.gale@publicfirst.co.uk | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | |||||||||||||||||
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6 | Taxes, Cost of Living, Wages | Deliver economic stability | Same fiscal rules as current government | If you think Labour will win, start saving | Stick to fiscal rules | A fair deal on the economy | Our economy needs reform | Employer immigration tax | Halt the austerity approach | A Fairer Funding Formula and tax system | |||||||||||||||
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8 | Fiscal rules | - Move to a balanced budget, so that day-to-day costs are met by revenues (Source: Manifesto) - Require debt to be falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the forecast (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a "fiscal lock" requiring significant and permanent tax/spending changes to be accompanied by a full OBR forecast (Source: BBC News, 27/05/2024) - Commit to having only one major fiscal event per year (Source: Manifesto) | - Continue to meet fiscal rules for next parliament to have public sector net debt falling and for public sector net borrowing to be below 3% GDP in the fifth year of the forecast (Source: Manifesto) | - Ensure all fiscal events are accompanied by independent forecasts from the OBR (Source: Manifesto) | - Every department must save £5 in every £20 through cutting bereaucracy, improving efficiency and negotiating better value procurement deals (Souce: Manifesto) - Stop paying interest on QE reserves to commercial banks, saving £35 billion a year (Souce: Manifesto) | Next UK government should hold 'emergency budget' to halt 'austerity approach' (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Scrap UK Government fiscal rules (Souce: Manifesto) - Introduce a Public Sector Net Worth rule to recognise the value of investment in public assets rather than just liabilities (Souce: Manifesto) - Introduce an upper limit on debt servicing costs (Souce: Manifesto) - Release three-year detailed spending plans (Souce: Manifesto) | - Replace the Barnett Formula with a new needs-based system (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK governmnet to measure the economy beyond growth in GDP (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | Taxes | - Ensure no rises in income tax or National Insurance for at least all five years of the next parliament (Source: Guardian, 28/05/2024) - Ensure no new additional tax rises beyond those already announced (VAT on private school fees, abolishing non dom status, abolishing carried interest, windfall tax on energy companies) (Source: Financial Times, 28/05/2024) - Keep income tax thresholds frozen until 2028 (meaning more people will pay higher rates as incomes increase) (Source: The Times, 31/05/2024) - Do not increase in VAT (Source: BBC News, 29/05/2024) - Replace the business rates system (as yet unspecified with what) (Source: Labour, 08/06/2024) - No cut to employee National Insurance (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - Invest £855 million of additional funding in HMRC each year to 'boost tax income' by clamping down on tax avoidance (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Abolish the non-dom tax status, replacing it with a 'modern scheme for people genuinely in the country for a short period' (Source: Manifesto) - End the use of offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax (Source: Manifesto) - Close loophole allowing performance-related pay in the private equity industry to be treated as capital gains (Source: Manifesto) - Pubish a roadmap for business taxation for the next parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Cap corporation tax at the current level (25%) for the entirety of the next parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Put VAT on private school fees in the first budget of a Labour government (Source: The Times, 20/06/24) | - Raise £6bn by 'cracking down on tax avoidance' (Source: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, 27/05/2024) - Do not increase in VAT for duration of next parliament (Source: The Telegraph, 29/05/2024) - Do notrises in income tax or National Insurance (Source: The Telegraph, 29/05/2024) - Keep income tax thresholds frozen until 2028 (meaning more people will pay higher rates as incomes increase) (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - Cut national insurance "when it's affordable" (Source: The Telegraph, 29/05/2024) - Introduce a “Family Home Tax Guarantee” promising to protect people’s main home from capital gains tax and not to increase stamp duty, undertake a council tax revaluation changing council tax bands or cut council tax discounts (Source: The Telegraph, 06/06/2024) - Continue the nil-rate threshold up to £425,000 for First Time Buyers' Relief (currently due to expire in March 2025), meaning first-time buyers don't pay stamp duty on properties up to this value (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - Cut employee National Insurance by 2% (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish the main rate of self-employed National Insurance by the end of the Parliament (Source: Manifesto) | - Reverse cuts to taxes on banks (Source: BBC News, 23/05/2024) Manifesto detail added: Restore Bank Surcharge and Bank Levy revenues to 2016 levels in real terms - Introduce Digital Services Tax to triple tax rates on online social media/tech companies from 2%-6% (Source: BBC News, 29/05/2024) - No increase in VAT (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - No rises in income tax or National Insurance (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - Make water companies pay a 'sewage tax' (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - Windfall tax on oil and gas companies (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Introduce 4% share buyback tax on FTSE-100 listed companies (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - Work with international partners, like OECD and UN, to tackle international corporate tax avoidance and make case for increasing global minimum rate of corporation tax to 21% (Source: Manifesto) - Raise tax-free personal allowance (amount unspecified) "when the public finances allow" (Source: Manifesto) - Reform capital gains tax (unspecified how) to close loopholes (Source: Manifesto) - End retrospective tax changes such as the loan charge (Source: Manifesto) - Review the Government’s off-payroll working IR35 reforms (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish business rates and replace them with a Commercial Landowner Levy (details unspecified) (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap VAT on children’s toothbrushes and toothpaste (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new levy on tobacco company profits (to help fund healthcare and smoking cessation services) (Source: Manifesto) - Cut VAT on public EV charging to 5% (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new super tax on private jet flights, and remove the VAT exemptions for private, first-class and business-class flights (Source: Manifesto) | - Equalise capital gains with income tax (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Remove cap allowing those on high incomes to pay less National Insurance (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Align the tax rates on investment income with the tax and National Insurance Contribution rates on employment income (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a 1% tax on assets over £10 million and 2% on assets over £1 billion (Souce: BBC News, 06/06/2024) - Extend windfall taxes on oil and gas companies (Souce: BBC News, 06/06/2024) - Introduce a carbon tax set initially at £120 per tonne of carbon emitted and rising over 10 years to a maximum of £500 per tonne (Source: Manifesto) - End VAT on 'cultural activities' (e.g. museums, gig tickets) (Source: Manifesto) | - Abolish inheritance tax for estates worth under £2m (Source: The Telegraph, 06/06/2024) - Raise personal tax allowance to £20,000 (Source: BBC News, 09/06/2024) - Create An Employer Immigration Tax - 20% national insurance for foreign workers apart from essential health and care workers and small businesses with under 5 employees (Souce: Manifesto) - Improve HMRC confidence to collect billions in unpaid tax (Souce: Manifesto) - Raise the higher rate tax threshold to £70,000 a year (Souce: Manifesto) - Lower fuel duty to 20p per litre for residential and business users (Souce: Manifesto) - Scrap VAT on energy bills (Souce: Manifesto) - Cut residential stamp duty to 0% below £750k, 2% for £750k to £1.5 million and 4% over £1.5 million (Souce: Manifesto) - Reestablish the VAT refund scheme for tourist shopping (Souce: Manifesto) - Abolish Inheritance Tax for all estates under £2 million. - Lift the mininum profit threshold for corporation tax to £100l and reduce the main corporation tax rate from 25% to 20%, then eventually to 15% in year 3 (Source: Manifesto) - Lift the VAT threshold to £150,000 (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish Business Rates for high street based SMEs (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an online deliveree tax of 4% for large online multinational retailers (Source: Manifesto) - Cut the entrepreneurs' tax to 5% (Souce: Manifesto) - A "major simplification" of the tax system (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish the basic rate of tax for three years for all frontline NHS and Social Care staff (Source: Manifesto) - Put a 20% tax relief on all private healthcare and insurance (Source: Manifesto) - Cut waiting times for A&E by offering tax incentives for new pharmacies and those who employ more staff (Source: Manifesto) - Put equivalent taxes on renewable energy as on fossil fuels (Source: Manifesto) - When finances allow, create a 25% transferrable marriage tax allowance (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap the License fee (Source: Manifesto) | - Demand full devolution of tax powers to the Scottish Government (Souce: Manifesto) - With these devolved powers, impose a windfall tax on companies with excess profits (Souce: Manifesto) - Crack down on tax avoidence and evasion (Souce: Manifesto) - Make international companies taxes more transparent (Souce: Manifesto) - Develop a new approach to road travel funding if road tax and fuel duty are devolved (Souce: Manifesto) - End the VAT exemption for private schools (Souce: Manifesto) - Lower rate of VAT for hospitality and tourism sectors (Souce: Manifesto) - Address the imbalance of VAT rates in the construction industry (Souce: Manifesto) - Remove VAT from on-street electric vehicle charging (Souce: Manifesto) | - Devolve economic powers to the Welsh Government, allowing the Senedd to set income tax bands (Source: Manifesto) - A windfall tax on energy companies (Source: Manifesto) - Equalise capital gains tax with income tax (Source: Manifesto) - Investigated increasing higher earners' national insurance contributions (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a wealth tax (Source: Manifesto) - Crack down on tax evasion and avoidance (Source: Manifesto) - Close loopholes for non-doms (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
10 | Cost of Living | - Save households over £500 per year through lowering fuel duty to 20p per litre, scrapping VAT on energy bills and scrapping environmental levies (Souce: Manifesto) | - Scrap the two child benefit cap (Source: Manifesto) - Legislate for an "essentials guarantee" ensuring everyone can afford basic necessities (Source: Manifesto) - Call for a statutory social tarrif for energy, broadband and mobile charges for those that need one (Source: Manifesto) - Push for an annual uplift of LHA. Source: Manifesto) - Call for combining the Warm Home Discount and Energy Company Obligation to create a single fuel poverty scheme for Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a fair energy pricing and rebate scheme for highland and island residents (Source: Manifesto) - Reintroduce a simplified Help to Buy ISA (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Wages and employment | - Ban 'exploitative zero hours contracts' (but not zero hours contracts altogether) (Source: BBC News, 27/05/2024) - End 'practice of "fire and rehire"' apart from in "exceptional circumstances" (Source: BBC News, 27/05/2024) - Give workers more rights from 'day one' (e.g. unfair dismissal protection, parental leave, sick pay) whilst protecting proabtionary periods for employers (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Consult on a simpler framework for employment statuses so companies don't misuse 'self-employed' status (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Make flexible working 'default from day one' for all workers, except where 'not reasonably feasible', and introduce 'right to switch off' so 'homes don't become 24/7 offices' (Source: Labour: 24/05/2024) - Ensure minimum wage is a 'real living wage' by updating Low Pay Commission's remit to account for the cost of living (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Update trade union legislation to remove restrictions, including by repealing the Trade Union Act 2016, the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business (Amendment) Regulations 2022, and the Minimum Service Levels (Strikes) Bill 2023 (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Introduce a Single Enforcement Body (including trade union and TUC representation) to enforce workers' rights, with strong powers to inspect workplaces and bring civil procedings (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Increase employment rate from 75% to 80% by embedding National Careers Service in Job Centres, devolving more powers to mayors, and improving access to apprenticeships/training for 18- to 21-year-olds (Source: The Times, 31/05/2024) New manifesto detail: A new youth guarantee of access to training, an apprenticeship or work for 18- to 21-year-olds - Guarantee 2 weeks' worth of work experience for every young person (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting for large emplyers (Source: Manifesto) | - Continue implementing Minimum Service Levels legislation (Source: Manifesto) | - Encourage employers to promote employee ownership by giving staff in listed companies with more than 250 employees a right to request shares, to be held in trust for the benefit of employees (Source: Manifesto) - Reform fiduciary duty and company purpose rules to ensure that all large companies have a formal statement of corporate purpose (e.g. employee welfare, environmental standards) (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a new Worker Protection Enforcement Authority unifying responsibilities currently spread across three agencies – including enforcing the minimum wage, tackling modern slavery and protecting agency workers (Source: Manifesto) - Establish an independent review to recommend a genuine living wage across all sectors, with government departments and all other public sector employers taking a leading role in paying it (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a new ‘dependent contractor’ employment status in between employment and self-employment, with entitlements to basic rights such as minimum earnings levels, sick pay and holiday entitlement (Source: Manifesto) - Review the tax and National Insurance status of employees, dependent contractors and freelancers to ensure comparable treatment (Source: Manifesto) - Set a 20% higher minimum wage for people on zero-hour contracts at times of normal demand to compensate them for the uncertainty of fluctuating hours of work (Source: Manifesto) - Give a right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for ‘zero hours’ and agency workers, not to be unreasonably refused (Source: Manifesto) - Review rules concerning pensions so that those in the gig economy don’t lose out, and portability between roles is protected (Source: Manifesto) - Shift the burden of proof in employment tribunals regarding employment status from individual to employer (Source: Manifesto) - Reform Statutory Sick Pay system to make it available to those earning less than £123 per week, align the rate with the National Minimum Wage, make payments available from first day of missing work (not fourth), and support small employers with SSP costs (Source: Manifesto) | - Repeal current anti-union legislation and push for its replacement with a positive Charter of Workers’ Rights, including the right to strike and a legal obligation for all employers to recognise trade unions (Source: Manifesto) - Mandate a maximum 10:1 pay ratio for all private- and public-sector organisations (Source: Manifesto) - Implement an increase in the minimum wage to £15 an hour, no matter someone's age, and reduce costs of this to small businesses by reducing their National Insurance payments (Source: Manifesto) - Push for equal employment rights for all workers from their first day of employment, including those working in the ‘gig economy’ and on zero-hours contracts (Source: Manifesto) - Deny gig employers that repeatedly break employment, data protection or tax law licences to operate (Source: Manifesto) - Move to a four-day working week (Source: Manifesto) | - Cut red tape making it easier to high and fire employees (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap zero hours contracts, ban "hire and fire" practices and repeal the Minimum Service Bill (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve employment rights and the minimum wage (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the minimum wage to at least the living wage, increase it in line with inflation and end age discrimination of pay levels (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new standard definition of "worker" for all but the genuinely self employed (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap the four day waiting period for statutory sick pay (Source: Manifesto) - Increase maternity leave to one year, paying 100% of average weekly salaries for the first 12 weeks, then 90% for the next 40 or £150, whichever is lower. - Call on the UK government to increase shared parental leave from 52 weeks to 64, 12 of them being use it or lose it for fathers (Source: Manifesto) - Repeal the 2016 Trade Union Act (Source: Manifesto) | - Devolve emplyment law to Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Reverse UK Government's anti-strike legislation (Source: Manifesto) - Legislate to tackle insecure work, provide paid bereavement leave and miscarrage leave as "day one rights" as well as outlawing fire and re-hire tactics, abolishing compulsory zero-hours contracts and establishing a right to "disconnect" from work (Source: Manifesto) - Reform Shared Parental Leave (Source: Manifesto) - Consider giving people a right to five days paid leave to care for a person with a long-term need (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
12 | Growth (incl industrial stratagy) | - Publish business tax roadmap within 6 months of being elected (Source: BBC News, 28/05/2024) - Cap corporation tax at current level (Source: BBC News, 28/05/2024) - Establish an Industrial Strategy Council on a statutory footing, with represenation from nations, regions, businesses and trade unions (Source: Manifesto) - Support financial services sector including via new technology, such as Open Banking and Open Finance (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a National Wealth Fund capitalised with £7.3bn over the next Parliament aiming to attract £3 of private investment for every £1 of public investment, allocated as follows: £1.8bn to upgrade ports and build UK supply chains, £1.5bn to new gigafactories for automotive industry, £2.5bn to the steel industry, £1bn to accelerate carbon capture deployment, £500m to support green hydrogen manufacturing (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce more Freeports and Business Rates Retention Zones through a new application round in the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Create business rates retention zones where local authorities will be able to retain all business rates growth for 25 years and use the funds to finance infrastructure and support industry (Source: Manifesto) - Continue support for Investment Zones (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand British Business Bank to ensure viable small- and medium-sized businesses have access to capital and more efficiently 'crowd-in' private sector investment (Source: Manifesto) - Re-establish the Industrial Strategy Council and put it on a statutory footing, to ensure oversight, monitoring and evaluation of long-term industrial strategy (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest £40bn per year in the shift to a green economy over the course of the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) | - Cut residential stamp duty to 0% below £750k, 2% for £750k to £1.5 million and 4% over £1.5 million (Souce: Manifesto) - Reestablish the VAT refund scheme for tourist shopping (Souce: Manifesto) - Slash red tape to increase productivity, particularly making it easier to hire and fire (Source: Manifesto) | - Create a Nation Development Agency for Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the Development Bank of Wales to take and profit from more shares in emerging businesses and infrastructure projects (Source: Manifesto) - Give the Welsh Government the power to develop a community bank for local banking services where other providers have left the market (Source: Manifesto) - Target 75% of Welsh public sector procurement spending being with companies located in Wales. - Promote co-operative employee and community ownership models in local sectors and in growith sectors like green industries (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | High street and small business | - Guarantee small businesses access to bank services in their area (e.g. depositing cash) by rolling out banking hubs (Source: Labour, 08/06/2024) - Require large businesses to better report on their payment practices to expose late payers, especially of small business invoices (Source: Labour, 08/06/2024) - Require at least one SME to be shortlisted when smaller public contracts go to tender (Source: Labour, 08/06/2024) - Retain a permanent full expensing system for capital investment and the annual investment allowance for small business (Source: Manifesto) - Double the size of the UK’s co-operative and mutuals sector (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the British Business Bank to give it a stronger mandate to support growth in the regions and nations (Source: Manifesto) Give local communities the “right to buy” pubs that are closing (Source: Labour, 18/06/24) | - Give a further 30 towns £20m each to invest over next 10 years in regeneration projects (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - Increase the business rates multiplier on distribution warehouses to ease the burden on SMEs (Source: Manifesto) - Expand Open Finance to improve access to finance for SMEs and explore creating Regional Mutual Banks (Source: Manifesto) - Lift employee threshold allowing more companies to be considered medium-sized, saving them time on reporting requirements (Source: Manifesto) - Use the Small Business Commissioner to improve enforcement of the Prompt Payment Code (Source: Manifesto) - Work with British Business Bank and private fund managers to secure £250m for an Invest in Women Fund to support female entrepreneurs (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a national financial inclusion strategy and require both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to have regard to financial inclusion, e.g. protecting access to cash, especially in remote areas, supporting banking hubs, and delivering Sharia-compliant student finance (Source: Manifesto) - Tackle the late payments crisis by requiring all government agencies and contractors and companies with more than 250 employees to sign up to the prompt payment code, making it enforceable (Source: Manifesto) | - Establish regional mutual banks to drive investment in decarbonistion (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £2bn per year in grant funding for local authorities to help businesses decarbonise (Source: Manifesto) | - Lift the mininum profit threshold for corporation tax to £100l and reduce the main corporation tax rate from 25% to 20%, then eventually to 15% in year 3 (Source: Manifesto) - Supprt the self employed by abolishing IR35 rules (Source: Manifesto) - Lift the VAT threshold to £150,000 (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish Business Rates for high street based SMEs (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an online deliveree tax of 4% for large online multinational retailers (Source: Manifesto) - Cut the entrepreneurs' tax to 5% (Souce: Manifesto) | - Reform Non-Domestic Rates (Business Rates) to better support small businesses. - Reverse reductions in small business support from the Welsh Government, ammending the mulitplier to focus support on high street businesses (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
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17 | NHS, Hospitals, Medical Technology | Cut NHS waiting times | 40,000 more evening & weekend appointments per week | Cut waiting lists | Free up 20 million GP appointments | Repair our health and care system | Offer 65 million extra appointments per year | Patients first, cutting waste - an NHS to be proud of again | NHS voucher for private healthcare for long wait times | Ensure the NHS is properly funded through a fairer needs-based funding model for Wales | |||||||||||||||
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19 | Health Spending | - Raise spending by over £50 billion a year by 2030 - £30 billion for English NHS services + £20 billion for social care (Source: Green Party, 06/06/2024) - Increasing the allocation of funding to primary medical care, with additional annual spending reaching £1.5bn by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) | - 20% tax relief on all private healthcare and insurance (Source: Manifesto) - Provide patients with an NHS voucher for private care if they can't see a GP within 3 days, get a consultation in 3 weeks or have an operation in 9 weeks (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest £300 million to drive down waiting times (Source: Manifesto) - Call for the UK government to increase NHS spending by at least £10 billion each year (Source: Manifesto) | - Restore funding for GPs to 8.7% of the Welsh helath budget (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Workforce (doctors and nurses: numbers; training) | - Pay NHS staff to work evenings and weekends, and use spare private healthcare capacity, to offer more appointments (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Negotiate on junior doctor pay, but "won't be able to afford" 35% pay claim "on day one of a Labour government" (Source: Guardian, 29/05/2024) - Recruit 8,500 specially trained staff across CAMHS and NHS talk therapies (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Train more health visitors and allow health visitors to administer routine immunisations to vulnerable and at-risk children (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Use spare capacity in the independent sector to ensure patients are diagnosed and treated more quickly (Source: Manifesto) - Train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan and set an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Royal College of Clinical Leadership to champion the voice of clinicians (Source: Manifesto) - Incentivise GPs to see the same patient, so ongoing or complex conditions are dealt with effectively (Source: Manifesto) - Allow other professionals, such as opticians, to make direct referrals to specialist services or tests, as well as expanding selfreferral routes where appropriate (Source: Manifesto) | - Create long-term workforce plan (Source: Conservatives website, 28/05/2024) - Have 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors in the NHS by the end of the next Parliament than in 2023 (Source: Manifesto) | - Recruit 8,000 more GPs by boosting recruitment and retaining more experienced GPs (Source: BBC News, 23/05/2024) - Give everyone 70+ and everyone with long-term health conditions access to a named GP (Source: Manifesto) - Free up GPs’ time by giving more prescribing rights and public health advisory services to qualified pharmacists, nurse practitioners and paramedics (Source: Manifesto) - Establish an independent pay review body (Source: Manifesto) - Exempt NHS and care staff from the Immigration Skills Charge (Source: Manifesto) - Create a career ladder to allow flexibility to work across the NHS and social care, allowing staff to gain experience in both (Source: Manifesto) | Spend £5 billion a year to increase NHS’ workers salaries and £1.5 billion a year to restore funding for public health bodies (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) | - Abolish the basic rate of tax for three years for all frontline NHS and Social Care staff (Source: Manifesto) - Write of student fees pro rata per year over ten years of working for the NHS for all doctors nurses and medical staff (Source: Manifesto) | - Call on the UK government to match Scottish NHS pay deals (Source: Manifesto) - Call for the reverse of recent changes to care workers visas, allowing them to bring their families (Source: Manifesto) | - Implement pay restoration for NHS staff as soon as possible (Source: Manifesto) - Recruit 500 additional GPs across Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Increase avaibility of degree apprenticeships in healthcare (Source: Manifesto) - Make more flexible working available for nurses (Source: Manifesto) - Pay social care workers at least £1 abovethe real living wage (Source: Manifesto) - Remove restrictions on visas for careworkers with dependants (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
21 | Capital (hospitals; beds; machines) | - Commit to delivering the New Hospitals Programme (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a 'Fit For the Future Fund' to double the number of MRI and CT scanners in the NHS and improve early diagnosis (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) | - Build 100 new GP surgeries in England and modernise 150 more, both paid for by changing planning rules so that health gets a bigger proportion of housing developer contributions (Source: BBC News, 01/06/2024) - Build 50 new Community Diagnostic Centres, to deliver a further 2.5m tests per year (Source: BBC News, 01/06/2024) - Continue to build 40 'new' hospitals by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand urgent treatment centres and A&E wards via £280m of capital investment (Source: BBC News, 09/06/2024) - Add an extra 1,000 staffed beds in hospitals via £400m of investment (Source: BBC News, 09/06/2024) | Put £20 billion in capital investment into buildings and equipment (Source: Green Party, 06/06/2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Targets (appointments; waiting lists) | - Deliver 2 million more NHS appointments per year (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Treatments to start within 18 weeks for patients (Source: BBC News, 29/05/2024) - Cut paediatric waiting times by delivering 40,000 planned care appointments (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) | - Free up 20 million GP appointments by expanding Pharmacy First scheme (see below) (Source: BBC News, 01/06/2024) | - Give people a 'legal right' to see a GP within a week, or 24 hours if in urgent need (Source: BBC News, 23/05/2024) - Give cancer patients the right in law to receive treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral (Source: Liberal Democrats, 06/06/2024) - Help people to spend 'five more years of their life in good health' by investing in public health (Source: Manifesto) - Publish localised reports of ambulance response times (Source: Manifesto) | - Push for a year-on-year reduction in waiting lists, guaranteed access to an NHS dentist amd guaranteed rapid access to a GP (and same day access in case of urgent need) (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Specific priorities (e.g. cancer fund; mental health) | - Recruit 8,500 new NHS mental health staff (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Provide an additional 700,000 dentist appointments each year (Source: Labour Party, 06/06/2024) - Introduce a targeted national supervised toothbrushing programme for 3-5-year-olds in breakfast clubs (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Continue legislation for a progressive ban on smoking (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Make all hospital trusts integrate ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation interventions into routine care, with a named lead on smoking cessation (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Ban vapes from being branded and advertised to appeal to children (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Implement the 9pm watershed for junk food advertising on television and ban paid-for advertising of less healthy foods on online media aimed at children (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Ban the sale of caffeinated energy drinks containing over 150mg of caffeine per litre to under-16s (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Give councils powers to block the development of new fast food shops outside schools (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Implement the recommendations of the Cass Review (Source: Manifesto) - Create a Community Pharmacist Prescribing Service, granting more pharmacists independent prescribing rights (Source: Manifesto) - Commission a new HIV action plan in England, in pursuit of ending HIV cases by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand Pharmacy First scheme, which allows people to go to their pharmacy instead of the GP for some common conditions (Source: BBC News, 01/06/2024) - Rewrite Equality Act so that its provisions apply related to sex only apply to biological sex (Source: BBC News, 03/06/2024) - Spend £730m to increase capacity of NHS mental health services to allow 576,000 people to access mental health support by 2029 (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - Implement the Dental Recovery Plan, including a patient premium to encourage dentists to take on new NHS patients, 'golden hellos' to encourage dentists to work in rural areas and mandating dentists must work in the NHS for a number of years to avoid having to pay back their training costs (Source: Manifesto) - Fully roll out Martha’s Rule, giving patients the right to a second opinion (Source: Manifesto) - Publish and implement a Major Conditions Strategy to prevent these conditions from occurring and ensure those living with them receive the best possible care (Source: Manifesto) - Bring forward Tobacco and Vapes Bill in our first King’s Speech (Source: Manifesto) - Legislate to restrict the advertising of products high in fat, salt and sugar (Source: Manifesto) - Bring forward a comprehensive national strategy for maternity care as recommended by the APPG on Birth Trauma’s inquiry (Source: Manifesto) - Expand women’s health hubs so that every integrated care system has at least one hub up and running (Source: Manifesto) - Expand coverage of Mental Health Support Teams from 50% to 100% of schools and colleges in England by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Open early support hubs for those aged 11-25 in every local community by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the planned expansion of NHS Talking Therapies by 50%, supporting people with anxiety, stress and depression (Source: Manifesto) - Boost the capacity of Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness by 140,000 places (Source: Manifesto) - Pass a new law to provide better treatment and support for severe mental health needs in the first session of the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Roll out fracture liaison services to every region, reaching 100% coverage by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Complete the implementation of the Cass Review and legislate to permanently prevent the private prescription and supply of puberty blockers (Source: Manifesto) - Amend the NHS Constitution so that it recognises every patient’s right to request single-sex accommodation and same-sex intimate care (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new licensing scheme and age limits for non-surgical cosmetic procedures (Source: Manifesto) - Pay comprehensive compensation to those impacted by the infected blood scandal (Source: Manifesto) | - End 'dental deserts' by introducing emergency scheme to guarantee free NHS dental check-ups for those already elligible (Source: Liberal Democrats website, 27/05/2024) - Guarantee appointments for all those who need a dental check before commencing surgery, chemotherapy or transplant (Source: Manifesto) - Five-year cancer plan to increase the number of new radiotherapy machines, halve the time the MHRA takes to approve new treatments by expanding their capacity, passing a Cancer Survival Research Act and recruiting more cancer nurses to ensure each patient has a dedicated specialist (Source: Liberal Democrats, 07/06/2024) - Establish mental health hubs for young people in every community (Source: Manifesto) - Put a dedicated, qualified mental health professional in every school (Source: Manifesto) - Extend young people’s mental health services up to the age of 25 to ease the drop-off experienced by young people transitioning to adult services (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce regular mental health check-ups at key points in people’s lives when they are most vulnerable to mental ill-health (Source: Manifesto) - Build on the Pharmacy First approach to give patients more accessible routine services and ease the pressure on GPs (Source: Manifesto) - Make prescriptions for people with chronic mental health conditions free on the NHS (Source: Manifesto) - Modernise the Mental Health Act (details unspecified) to strengthen people’s rights, give them more choice and control over their treatment and prevent inappropriate detentions (Source: Manifesto) - Create a statutory, independent Mental Health Commissioner to represent patients, their families and carers (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce regulations to halt the use of vapes by children and ban the sale of single-use vapes (Source: Manifesto) - Support local authorities to restrict outdoor advertising of junk food and restrict TV advertising to post-watershed (Source: Manifesto) - Extend the soft drinks levy to juice-based and milk-based drinks that are high in added sugar (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a 'Patients Charter' to embed patients voice in services, including a legal right to a second opinion (Souce: Manifesto) - Implement the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry in full, including delivering full and fair compensation to all victims of the scandal (Source: Manifesto) - Open fracture liaison services so that osteoporosis patients can get the treatment they need and prevent long-term issues and costs (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the gender recognition process to remove the requirement for medical reports, recognise non-binary identities in law, and remove the spousal veto (Source: Manifesto) | - Guarantee people who need mental health treatment access it within 28 days (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) - Establish a National Commission to review how to reform UK drugs laws (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new NHS dentists’ contract so that dentists are properly rewarded for taking on NHS patients (Source: Manifesto) - Invest more in NHS dentistry, reaching £3bn a year by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Improve funding for community hubs and primary care to roll-out free dental nursing for children and those on low incomes (Source: Manifesto) - Increase funding for mental health care, putting it on an equal footing with physical health care and enabling people to access evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days (Source: Manifesto) - Put a counsellor in every school and sixth-form college (Source: Manifesto) - Legalise assisted dying for people suffering from terminal disease who wish to avoid prolonged unnecessary suffering, if this is their clear and settled will (Source: Manifesto) - Support access to the HIV prevention pill online, in pharmacies and from GP services, and renewing successful opt-out HIV testing programmes in A&Es in all areas with a high prevalence of HIV (Source: Manifesto) - Campaign for the right of self-identification for trans and non-binary people (Source: Manifesto) | - Use independent healthcare capacity in the UK and overseas (Source: Manifesto) - Operating theatres must be open on weekends. - Cut waiting times for A&E by offering tax incentives for new pharmacies and those who employ more staff (Source: Manifesto) - Have a public inquiry into "Excess deaths and vaccine harms." (Source: Manifesto) | - Reintroduce anti-smoking legislation (Source: Manifesto) - Treat gambling as a public health matter (Source: Manifesto) - Ban single use vapes (Source: Manifesto) | - Move towards a public health strategy that is more preventative (Source: Manifesto) - Accept reccomundations of infected blood scandal inquiry, a duty of Candor for all public services and full compensation for victims (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure full compensation for those harmed by valproate (Source: Manifesto) - Wales specific covid inquiry (Source: Manifesto) - Provide more support for those with long covid (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new dental school Bangor (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap dental charge increases (Source: Manifesto) - Continue current air ambulance provision (Source: Manifesto) - Multi-annual funding key third sector organisations (Source: Manifesto) - Create a "cancer contract" guaranteeing no downgrading of urgent suspected cancer referrals, lowering the threshold for bowel cancer screening and increase rates of lung cancer screening (Source: Manifesto) - Focus on prehabilitation for cancer treatment (Source: Manifesto) - Recruit, train and retain more oncology staff. - Support the creation of a national register of Barrett's oesophagus in Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure support is available for individuals presenting themselves as neurodiverse (Source: Manifesto) - Transfer powers over the mental health act to the Welsh Government and reform it (Source: Manifesto) - Develop pilots of diagnostic tests within communities fora range of conditions (Source: Manifesto) - Reduce delays to diagnosis to Crohn’s and Colitis, coeliac disease, and IBS by implementing the national primary diagnostic pathway for lower gastrointestinal symptoms (Source: Manifesto) - Create an improvement plan for people living with lung conditions (Source: Manifesto) - Change in legislation on drug tarriffs (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
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25 | Structure and management | - Trial Neighbourhood Health Centres with family doctors, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists and mental health workers in same building (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) | Cut number of NHS managers to pre-pandemic levels (and halve management consultancy spend accross government) to raise £1bn for key health plans (Source: BBC News, 01/06/2024) | - Reverse cuts to the Public Health Grant by investing £1bn per year for local authorities to improve community health offers (Source: The Guardian, 02/06/2024) - Establishing a Strategic Small Surgeries Fund to sustain services in rural and remote areas (Source: Manifesto) - Create a National Care Agency to set minimum standards of care (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing (Source: Manifesto) | A “cast-iron guarantee” that Green MPs will oppose any privatisation of the NHS (Source: Green Party, 06/06/2024) | - Abolish the NHS Race and Health Observatory (Source: Manifesto) - Plan rotas further in advance (Source: Manifesto) - Review all NHS private finance contracts for savings (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a "Keep the NHS in Public Hands" bill ruling out further privitsation of the NHS (Source: Manifesto) | - Review governance of the NHS in Wales, aiming to strengthen oversight and accountability (Source: Manifesto) - Standardise targets and make lines of accountability clearer (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure greater indepedendent oversight of health board managers, including a regulatory body for Senior Health Mangers (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
26 | Technology (e.g. AI) | - Digitise the Red Book (Children’s Health Record) (Source: Labour, 10/06/2024) - Develop an NHS innovation and adoption strategy in England including a plan for procurement, giving a clearer route to get products into the NHS, coupled with reformed incentive structures to drive innovation and faster regulatory approval for new technology and medicines (Source: Manifesto) - Transform the NHS app, giving performance information on local services, and notifications of vaccinations and health checks (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest £3.4bn in NHS digitisation (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - Make the NHS App the single front door for NHS services with patients using the App to access their medical records, order prescriptions, book vaccine appointments, access a digital red book and manage their hospital appointments (Source: Manifesto) - Digitise NHS processes through the Federated Data Platform (Source: Manifesto) - Fund technology to help clinicians read MRI and CT scans more quickly and accurately (Source: Manifesto) - Implement a new medtech pathway so that cost-effective medtech, including AI, is rapidly adopted throughout the NHS (Source: Manifesto) - Roll out new digital health checks to 250,000 more people every year (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a 24/7 GP booking system (Source: Manifesto) - Roll out digital platforms for care users to develop networks, relationships and opportunities, connecting with care workers, friends and family, voluntary groups and more (Source: Manifesto) - Expand the NHS Digital Staff Passport to include the care sector (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Adult social care | - Introcuce a 'New Deal for Social Care Workers' which includes a 'Fair Pay Agreement' for adult social care workers by empowering trade unions to improve collective bargaining in the sector (Source: Labour, 24/05/2024) - Undertake a programme of reform to create a National Care Service, underpinned by national standards, delivering consistency of care across the country (Source: Manifesto) | - Recommit to an additional investment of up to £8.6 billion over the last two years (Source: Manifesto) - Give local authorities a multi-year funding settlement at the next Spending Review to support social care (Source: Manifesto) - Take forward the reforms in our ‘People at the Heart of Care’ White Paper and planned reforms to cap social care costs by October 2025 (Source: Manifesto) | - Make day-to-day care for adults in need free, covering costs like nursing care and daily support, although those needing residential care would still need to contribute (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) - Introduce a carer's minimum wage at a rate £2 above standard minimum wage (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) - Create a Royal College of Care Workers to represent workforce (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the value of carer’s allowance by £20 per week from £81.90 to £101.90 (Source: The Guardian, 08/06/2024) - Increase the carer’s allowance earnings limit by £32, taking it to £183 a week, with a taper applied above this limit to prevent carers from being hit with overpayment penalties (Source: The Guardian, 08/06/2024) - Introduce an amnesty to write off existing carer’s allowance overpayment debts, except in cases of deliberate dishonesty and fraud (Source: The Guardian, 08/06/2024) - Introduce a statutory guarantee of regular respite breaks for unpaid carers (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce paid carer’s leave (Source: Manifesto) - Make caring a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and requiring employers to make reasonable adjustments to enable employees with caring responsibilities to provide that care (Source: Manifesto) | - Raise spending by over £50 billion a year by 2030 - £30 billion for English NHS services + £20 billion for social care (Source: Green Party, 06/06/2024) - Free personal care for people who have social care needs (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) - Increase pay rates and introduce a career structure for carers to rebuild the care workforce (Source: Manifesto) - Fully fund personal care elements for those living in residential settings, alongside a tapered approach to other costs based on the level of income (Source: Manifesto) | - Work towards a National Care Service (Source: Manifesto) - Provide clarity that it is a human right to have family visits to care homes (Source: Manifesto) - Pay social care workers at least £1 abovethe real living wage (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | Miscellaneous (e.g. hospital parking; food) | - Charge patients who fail to attend appointments without warning (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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31 | Immigration & Asylum | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | ||||||||||
32 | Legal migration; rules for migrants; illegal migration | Secure Britain's borders | New Border Security Command with counter-terrorism powers | Stop the boats | Flights to Rwanda | Net Zero migration | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | Areas | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | |||||||||||||||||
34 | Illegal migrants | - Create a new Border Security Command including 'hundreds' of investigators, intelligence officers and cross-border police officers (funded by ending Rwanda scheme) (Source: Manifesto) - End the Migration and Economic Development partnership with Rwanda (Source: Manifesto) | - Seeing through the Rwanda plan (Source: Conservatives website, 28/05/2024) - Bring the Illegal Migration Act into force and clear the asylum backlog, with all claims processed in six months and the use of hotels ended (Source: Manifesto) - Return illegal immigrants to their own country through signing further returns deals like the Albania deal (Source: Manifesto) | - Cancel the Rwanda scheme and invest the savings in clearing the asylum backlog (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a firewall to prevent public agencies from sharing personal information with the Home Office for the purposes of immigration enforcement and repeal the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act (Source: Manifesto) - Repeal the ‘Right to Rent’ scheme (Source: Manifesto) - End the detention of children for immigration purposes, and reduce detention for adults to an absolute last resort, with a 28-day time limit (Source: Manifesto) | - End the 'hostile environment' (Source: Manifesto) - End immigration detention for all migrants unless they are a danger to public safety (Source: Manifesto) | - Leave the European Convention on Human Rights (Source: Good Morning Britain, 28/05/2024) - Physically intercept people in the Channel and escort them back to France regardless of French government cooperation (Source: BBC News, 30/05/2024) - Allow no illegal immigrants to resettle in the UK (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new Department of Immigration (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap the Rwanda scheme (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | Asylum seekers | - End hotel use for asylum seekers by clearing the asylum backlog with more staff to process claims and return people to safe countries (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Put another new returns and enforcement unit in place (Source: Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, 02/06/2024) New manifesto detail: commitment to an additional 1,000 staff in this unit - Negotiate additional returns arrangements to speed up returns and increase the number of safe countries that failed asylum seekers can swiftly be sent back to (Source: Manifesto) - Work with international partners to address the humanitarian crises which lead people to flee their homes, and to strengthen support for refugees in their home region (Source: Manifesto) | - Hold an international summit and work with other countries to reform international laws to make them fit for an age of mass migration to reform the asylum system (Source: Manifesto) - Give parliament control of how many places we offer on safe and legal routes to support those in genuine need from around the world, with a cap based on the capacity of local areas (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand and properly fund the UK Resettlement Scheme (Source: Manifesto) - Create new humanitarian travel permits that would allow asylum seekers to travel to the UK safely to proceed with their claims (Source: Manifesto) - Fund community-sponsorship projects for refugees, and reward community groups who develop innovative and successful ways of promoting social cohesion (Source: Manifesto) - Offer asylum to people fleeing the risk of violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identification (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the ‘move-on’ period for refugees to 60 days (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a new scheme to resettle unaccompanied child refugees from elsewhere in Europe (Source: Manifesto) - Reunite unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Europe with family members in the UK and expand the scope of refugee family reunion, including enabling unaccompanied child refugees in the UK to sponsor close family members to join them (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce safe routes to sanctuary for those fleeing persecution (Source: Manifesto) - Permit asylum seekers to work while their application is being decided (Source: Manifesto) | - Asylum seekers arriving illegally from a "safe country" will be processed off shore if necessary (Source: Manifesto) - All asylum seekers from safe countries will be barred from claiming asylum or citizenship (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure that asylum seekers will be returned if their claims are rejected (Source: Manifesto) | - Oppose no recourse to public funds (Source: Manifesto) - Urge the UK Government to give Asylum Seekers the right to work (Source: Manifesto) | - Create an online programme which shows an indicator of a likely outcome for asylum applications (Source: Manifesto) - Argue that responsibility for asylum seekers should be equally dispersed across the UK (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a family reunification scheme for people caught in the conflict in Gaza (Source: Manifesto) - Create safe routes for asylum seekers (Source: Manifesto) - Become a Nation of Sanctuary (Source: Manifesto) - Remove the "no recourse to public funds" restriction while awaitingdecisions (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
36 | Volume of immigration | - Ensure a 'Significant' reduction in net migration, but will not set a target (Source: The Guardian, 02/06/2024) - Organisations which break employment law (e.g. not paying minimum wage) will be banned from hiring foreign workers (Source: The Sun, 01/06/2024) - Reform the points-based immigration system so that it is fair and properly managed, with appropriate restrictions on visas, and by linking immigration and skills policy (Source: Manifesto) | Cap the number of migrant visas (work and family visas only, not including temporary work routes) by asking the Migration Advisory Committee to recommend an annual figure and having MPs vote on that cap each year (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) New manifesto detail: the cap would fall every year of the next Parliament | - Report international student flows separately to estimates of long-term migration (Source: Manifesto) | - 'Net Zero migration' to make the difference between the number of people leaving and arriving zero (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) - Freeze 'non-essential' migration of non-skilled workers (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) | - Devolve powers for a bespoke migration system to Scotland (Source: Manifesto) | - Devolve greater powers of the migration including powers of visa schemes to Wales (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
37 | Rules for migrants (e.g. benefits) | - Increase visa fees by 25% (Source: Sky News, 10/06/2024) - Remove student discount to the Immigration Health Surcharge (Source: Sky News, 10/06/2024) - Require migrants to undergo a health check in advance of travel and increase their Immigration Health Surcharge or require them to buy health insurance if they are likely to be a burden on the NHS (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce legislation for ‘‘Local Connection’ and ‘UK Connection’ tests for social housing, screening recipients of social housing based on their connection to the UK and the local area (Source: Manifesto) | - Exempt NHS and care staff from the £1,000-a-year Immigration Skills Charge, and reverse the Conservatives’ ban on care workers bringing partners and children (Source: Manifesto) - Reverse the Conservatives’ increase to income thresholds for family visas (Source: Manifesto) - Reduce the fee for registering a child as a British citizen from £1,214 to the cost of administration (Source: Manifesto) | - End the minimum income requirements for spouses of those holding work visas (Source: Manifesto) - Replace the Home Office with a new Department of Migration, separating this function from the criminal justice system (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish the ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition (Source: Manifesto) | - Ensure that there is no legal aid for non-citizens (Source: Manifesto) - Immediately deport foreign nationals who have committed a crime after their prison sentence ends (Source: Manifesto) - Withdraw citizenship from migrants who commit crimes, apart from some misdemeanour offences (Source: Manifesto) - Ban international students bringing dependents (Source: Manifesto) - Require 5 years of residency and employment in the UK to qualify for any benefits. - Introduce an Employer Immigration Tax - 20% national insurance for foreign workers apart from essential health and care workers and small businesses with under 5 employees (Souce: Manifesto) | - Remove restrictions on visas for careworkers with dependants (Source: Manifesto) - Retain the graduate route visa (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose the tighter restrictions on visas (Source: Manifesto) - Repeal legislation supporting the hostile environment (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
38 | Policies on types of migrants (salary caps; points) | - Link the Migration Advisory Committee to the Industrial Strategy Council and Skills England so that upskilling UK workers takes preference over hiring foreign workers (Source: The Sun, 01/06/2024) - End the long-term reliance on overseas workers in some parts of the economy by bringing in workforce and training plans for sectors such as health and social care, and construction (Source: Manifesto) | - Raise the Skilled Worker threshold and Family income requirement with inflation automatically (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand the Youth Mobility Scheme by negotiating with the EU to extend it on a reciprocal basis, increasing the age limit from 30 to 35, abolishing the fees for these visas and extending the length of visas from two to three years (Source: Manifesto) - Protect the rights of EU citizens and their families in the UK by automatically granting full Settled Status to all those with Pre-Settled Status and providing them with physical proof of their right to stay (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure victims of the Windrush scandal get the compensation they are entitled to by making the compensation scheme independent of the Home Office (Source: Manifesto) | - Allow only international students with "essential skills" to remain in the UK after their course (Source: Manifesto) - Close down "fake courses" and immigration schemes abusing the rules (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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40 | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | Headlines | ||||||||||||||||||
41 | Housing | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | ||||||||||
42 | Housing supply; supporting housebuyers; rental reform | Get Britain building again | Build 1.5m more homes | Warm, secure affordable homes for everybody | Affordable homes for hard-working British people | Everybody has the right to a safe and affordable home in their communnity | Build more social housing | ||||||||||||||||||
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44 | Targets and mechanism for housebuilding | - Build 1.5m "attractive" homes (Source: The Times, 06/06/2024) - Implement a ‘brownfield first’ approach, fast tracking approval of urban brownfield sites where possible (Source: Manifesto) - Release low quality ‘grey belt’ land for development (Source: Manifesto) - Build a new generation of new towns (Source: Manifesto) - Prioritise the building of new social rented homes (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new taskforce for new housing developments in the first weeks of a Labour government (Source: BBC News, 20/06/24) | - Replace EU 'nutrient neutrality’ rules with developer ‘pollution mitigation fee’ to enable building of 100,000 homes (Source: Manifesto) - Increase pressure on London Mayor to increase housing density in inner London (Source: Manifesto) | - Build 380,000 new homes a year across the UK, including 150,000 social homes a year (Source: Manifesto) - Build 10 new garden cities (Source: Manifesto) | - Provide 150,000 social homes a year through new build and refurbishment of older housing stock (Source: Manifesto) - Require local authorities to spread small developments across their areas (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure that all new homes meet Passivhaus or equivalent environmental standards (Source: Manifesto) - Enforce that all house builders include solar panels and heat pumps, where appropriate (Source: Manifesto) | - Create a ‘Loose fit planning’ policy for large residential developments with preapproved guidelines and developer requirements (Source: Manifesto) | - Support Welsh construction industry with centres of excellence in construction and retrofitting (Source: Manifesto) - Develop Welsh supply chains for housebuilding to ensure profits stay in Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Strategic planning to ensure houses are built on appropriate land aligned with sufficient infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | Infrastructure to support new housebuilding | - Update Affordable Homes Programme to ensure that it delivers more homes from it’s existing budget (Source: Manifesto) | - Support local and smaller builders by requiring councils set aside land and lifting planning restrictions on smaller sites (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure local authorities use the new Infrastructure Levy only for projects that support homes and communities (Source: Manifesto) - Renew the Affordable Homes Programme, which provides funding to support developments that include affordable housing (Source: Manifesto) | - Allow councils to buy land for housing based on current use value rather than on a hope-value basis by reforming the Land Compensation Act 1961 (Source: Manifesto) - Encourage development of existing brownfield sites with financial incentives and ensuring that affordable and social housing is included in these projects (Source: Manifesto) | Require all new developments to be accompanied by extra investment needed in local services to support the new communities (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Location of new housing | - Opposed to building of 60,000 homes in Milton Keynes (Source: The Guardian, 30/05/2024) - Create locally led urban development partnerships to deliver new quarters in Leeds, Liverpool, York and Cambridge (Source: Manifesto) - Accelerate provision of enforcement powers to remove illegal traveller sites (Source: Manifesto) | - Encourage the use of rural exception sites to expand rural housing (Source: Manifesto) | - Fast track housing on browfield sites (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Taxes and incentives on housebuying (e.g. right to buy; stamp duty) | - Make the current mortgage guarantee scheme permanent, using the government as a guarantor for people unable to save big deposits (Source; Sky News, 07/06/2024) - Tax foreign buyers (amount unspecified) to help pay for more planning officers (Source: Sky News, 07/06/2024) - Review right to buy discounts from 2012 (Source: Manifesto) - Increase protection from right-to-buy on newly built social housing (Source: Manifesto) | - Continue the nil-rate threshold up to £425,000 for First Time Buyers' Relief (currently due to expire in March 2025), meaning first-time buyers don't pay stamp duty on properties up to this value (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - Launch a new help to buy scheme for first time buyers, offering equity loans of up to 20% of the value of a new home (Source: Manifesto) - Continue the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme, aimed at increasing the supply of 5% deposit mortgage offers (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce two year Capital Gains Tax relief for landlords who sell to existing tenants (Source: Manifesto) | - Give local authorities, including National Park Authorities, the powers to end Right to Buy in their areas (Source: Manifesto) - Give local authorities powers to increase council tax by up to 500% where homes are being bought as second homes, with a stamp duty surcharge on overseas residents purchasing such properties (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a community right to buy for local authorities on certain property types (Source: Manifesto) - End individual right to buy schemes for occupants of social housing (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £29 billion over five years to insulate all homes to EPC B rating or higher (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £4 billion over five years to insulate other buildings to high EPC standards (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £9 billion to fit low carbon heating, such as heat pumps, into all buildings (Source: Manifesto) | - Incentivise innovation to speed up building (Source: Manifesto) | - Reintroduce a simplified Help to Buy ISA (Source: Manifesto) - Push for an annual uplift of LHA. Source: Manifesto) | - Close loopholes allowing holiday homes to pretend to be lettings businesses (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
48 | Planning reform | - Introduce planning reforms including fast-track permission to build on brownfield sites, offering 'first dibs' on new developments to local people, and reforming compulsory purchase orders (Source: Sky News, 07/06/2024) - Update National Policy Planning Framework, including restoring mandatory housing targets (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure planning authorities have up to date local plans (Source: Manifesto) - Provide funding for additional planning officers for local authorities, financed through increased stamp duty for non-UK residents (Source: Manifesto) - Require all combined and mayoral authorities to strategically plan for housing growth in their areas (Source: Manifesto) - Give combined authorities new planning powers and freedoms in how they spend grant funding (Source: Manifesto) - Reform compulsory purchase compensation rules to speed up and improve the provision of housing and required infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) - Strengthen planning obligations to ensure developments provide more affordable homes (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce fast track route for new homes on previously developed land in UK’s 20 largest cities (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure councils have the powers to ensure growth of holiday lets remain at sustainable level (Source: Manifesto) - Simplify the planning process for those who want to build or commission their own new build home (Source: Manifesto) | - Allow local authorities to set their own planning fees (Source: Manifesto) - Trial Community Land Auctions to ensure that local communities receive appropriate resource from developments (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ planning permission for developers who refuse to build (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new planning class for second homes and short-term lets (Source: Manifesto) | - Fast-track new infrastructure in costal regeneration sites as well as the North, Midlands and Wales (Source: Manifesto) | - Reform to planning systemto be more consistent with local needs (Source: Manifesto) - Give local government more powers to enforce planning decisions (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
49 | Rental reforms | - Immediately abolish Section 21 'no fault' evictions (Source: Manifesto) - Take steps to raise standards, including extending Awaab's Law to the private sector (Source: Manifesto) | - Implement a Renters Reform Bill, targeting court legislation to stop evictions without reason, but give powers to landlords to evict poorly behaved tennants (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce legislation for ‘‘Local Connection’ and ‘UK Connection’ tests for social housing, screening recipients of social housing based on their connection to the UK and the local area (Source: Manifesto) | - Ban no-fault evictions (Source: Manifesto) - Make three-year tenancies the default (Source: Manifesto) - Create a national register of licensed landlords (Source: Manifesto) - Proactively enforce clear standards for homes that are socially rented, including strict time limits for repairs (Source: Manifesto) - Fully recognise tenant panels (Source: Manifesto) | - Implement controls for local authorities to reduce rents if the rental market is unaffordable for many local people (Source: Manifesto) - Create legislation to stop ‘no-fault-evictions’ (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a tenants ‘right to demand energy efficiency’ scheme (Source: Manifesto) - Put a ‘private residential tenancy board’ in place to resolve disputes cheaply and quickly before they reach a tribunal (Source: Manifesto) | - Prioritise British citizens for social housing (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap section 24 for landlords, allowing them to deduct finance costs and mortgage interest from their tax (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish the renters reform bill. - Boost the monitoring, appeals and enforcement process for renters (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap the bedroom tax (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a Right to Adequate Housing Bill in Wales that would give the goverment powers to introduce rent controls and other market interventions (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
50 | Leasehold reform | - Bring the 'feudal leasehold system to an end' (Source: Manifesto) - Enact the package of Law Commission proposals on leashold enfranchisement, right to manage and commonhold (Source: Manifesto) - Take further steps to ban new leasehold flats and ensure commonhold is the default tenure (Source: Manifesto) - Tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges (Source: Manifesto) - End 'fleecehold' private housing estates and unfair maintenance costs (Source: Manifesto) | - Complete the process of leasehold reform (Source: Manifesto) - Implement a ground rent cap at £250 (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure the misuse of leasehold forfeiture so that leaseholders do not lose their property whilst making it easier for them to take up commonhold (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap residential leaseholds and cap ground rents to a nominal fee (Source: Manifesto) | - Protect leaseholders by making sure chargers for leasehold or freehold residents are clearly stated and consented to (Source: Manifesto) - Make it cheaper and easier to extend leases to 990 years and buy freeholds (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Homelessness | Develop a cross-government strategy, working with Mayors and Councils, to combat homelessness (Source: Manifesto) | - Deliver on current commitments to Local Authority Housing Fund (Source: Manifesto) - Undertake review of quality of temporary accommodation (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap the Vagrancy Act (Source: Manifesto) - Exempt groups of homeless people, including those at risk of homelessness, from the Shared Accommodation Rate (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a ‘somewhere safe to stay’ legal duty to ensure that everyone who is at risk of sleeping rough is provided with emergency accommodation and an assessment of their needs (Source: Manifesto) | - Increase housing stock to reduce homelessness (Source: Manifesto) - Use a Housing First model to rapidly rehouse people, (Source: Manifesto) - Increase council tax premiums on empty homes to encourage owners to let or sell (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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57 | Devolution | - Devolve further powers of transport, adult education and skills, housing and planning and employment support to existing combined authorities and encourage local authorities to form more combined authorities (Source: Manifesto) - Give local leaders powers to franchise local bus services and end the ban on municipal ownership (Source: Manifesto) - Give Mayors powers to establish unified, integrated transport systems (Source: Manifesto) - Require all Mayoral and Combined authorities to strategically plan for housing growth in their areas. - Strengthen the Sewel Convention with a new memorandum of understanding, to improve nations working with each other (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Council of Nations and Regions bringing together the Prime Minister, First Ministers (and deputy FM of NI) with Mayors of Combine Authorities (Source: Manifesto) - UK trade negotiators to work with devolved governments (Source: Manifesto) - Give decision making over allocation of structural funds to the representatives of devolved nations (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose Scottish devolution (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure Scottish devolution settlement allows collaboration with UK government on Labour's missions (Source: Manifesto) - Support the Scottish Government partnering with international bodies on wholly devolved issues such as global health iniatives (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve employment support funding to the Welsh Goveernment and consider devolving probation services and youth justice as well (Source: Manifesto) - Implement the Windsor Framework in full (Source: Manifesto) - Progress discussions with NI executive about their fiscal framework (Source: Manifesto) - Repeal the Northern Ireland Legacy Act which gives conditional amnesty for crimes committed in Northern Ireland during the troubles (Source: The Times, 03/06/2024) " | - Ensure that every part of England 'that wants one' has a devolution deal by 2030, including offering 'level 4' devolution powers to areas with existing deals/a directly elected leader, starting with the Tees Valley (Source: Manifesto) | - End the top-down reorganisation of councils and the imposition of elected mayors on communities who do not want them (Source: Manifesto) - Hand more powers and resources to local councils for local net zero strategies (Source: Manifesto) | - Deliver independence for Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve powers to create a bespoke Scottish migration system (Source: Manifesto) - Demand that Westminster devolves new borrowing powers to invest in a just transition and call for the UK government to match the SNP's £500 just transition fund for the North East and Moray (Source: Manifesto) - Demand the devolution of powers over energy regulation, pricing and production (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK Government to devolve all powers over tracks and trains to Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Deolve Broadcasting powers to Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve employment rights and the minimum wage (Source: Manifesto) | Devolve crown estate to Wales so profits for offshore wind projects can be diverted to Wales (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - Devolve economic powers to the Welsh Government, allowing the Senedd to set income tax bands (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve emplyment law to Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Transfer powers over the mental health act to the Welsh Government and reform it (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
58 | Local regeneration & high streets | - Guarantee small businesses access to bank services in their area (e.g. depositing cash) by rolling out banking hubs (Source: Labour, 08/06/2024) - Give councils new guidance to help local groups take over derelict buildings and degraded land under a community right to buy scheme, including lengthening the window to raise funds from 6-months to 12-months (Source; The Guardian, 06/06/2024) - Introduce a statutory requirement for Local Growth Plans, local leaders will develop long term plans highlighting growth sectors and planning appropriate infrastructure and programmes (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the business rates system to level the playing field between online companies and high street businesses (Source: Manifesto) | - Give a further 30 towns £20m each to invest over next 10 years in regeneration projects (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - Create more Freeports and Business Rates Retention zones (Source: Manifesto) - Change planning laws to support places to bring back local market days and regenerate defunct shopping centres (Source: Manifesto) | - Encourage post offices to become community banking and government hubs, and keep DVLA services available at post office counters (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Community | Extend Community Ownership Fund to help local people take control of community assets (e.g. pubc, music venues) (Source: Manifesto) | Invest £5bn to support community sports, arts and culture (Source: Manifesto) | - Support increased investment of Scottish Broadcasting (Source: Manifesto) - Give Gaelic broadcasting statutory parity with Welsh language broadcasting (Source: Manifesto) - Include Scottish national team major matches on the list of free-to-air sporting events (Source: Manifesto) | - Make sporting events of national importance to Wales free to air (Source: Manifesto) - Return Welsh artefacts to Wales (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce free entry to national museums (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Local crime | - Introduce a neighbourhood policing guarantee, ensuring a visible police presence in neighbourhoods and that communities and residents have a named officer to engage with (Source: Manifesto) - New "Respect Orders" will provide powers to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres (Source: Manifesto) - Conduct a strategic review of probation governence, considering devolving it to Mayors and Combined Authorities (Source: Manifesto) | Evict disruptive tenants from social housing (Source: BBC News, 31/05/24) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Local government funding | - Give councils multi-year funding settlements and end competitive bidding (Source: Manifesto) - Give greater flexibility in integrated settlements for Mayoral Combined Authorities who demonstrate "exemplary management of public money" (Source: Manifesto) | - Abolish £2.5bn Shared Prosperity Fund (to pay for military service proposal) (Source: BBC News, 26/05/2024) New manifesto detail: SPF retained for 3 years until next Spending Review before this happens - A “Family Home Tax Guarantee” promising to protect people’s main home from capital gains tax and not to increase stamp duty, undertake a council tax revaluation changing council tax bands or cut council tax discounts (Source: The Telegraph, 06/06/2024) | - Give local authorities extra funding to reduce the amount that schools pay towards the cost of a child’s Education, Health and Care Plan (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce an Economic Fairness Bill, guarenteeing that the impact of fiscal decisions are calculated across the whole UK (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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65 | Police, courts; sentencing; and prisons, prevention and rehabilitation | Take back town centres from thugs | 13,000 more police and community officers | Zero tolerance policing, more police, higher standards | Plaid Cymru support the full transfer of justice powers to Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
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67 | Police (incl numbers and where) | - Recruit 13,000 additional police and community officers (3,000 new officers, 4,000 PCSOs, remainder from existing government planned increase) (Source: BBC News, 29/05/2024) - Create rape unit in every police force, including specialists in 999 rooms (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Give police the power to scrap off-road bikes being used antisocially within 48 hours, instead of being impounded for 2 weeks before disposal (Source: Mail Online, 09/06/2024) - Increase on-the-spot fines for using off-road bikes inappropriately, or ignoring officers' instructions to stop (Source: Mail Online, 09/06/2024) - Introduce a Police Efficiency and Collaboration programme for England and Wales to set nation-wide standards for procurement and establish shared services and specialist functions to drive down costs (Source: Manifesto) - Give His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire & Rescue Services new powers to intervene with failing forces (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce mandatory professional standards on vetting, checks and misconduct for individual officers; and stronger training on racism and violence against women and girls (Source: Manifesto) - Bar anyone with a history of violence against women and girls from the service and introduce automatic suspensions if officers are investigated for domestic abuse and sexual offences (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce new legal safeguards around strip-searching children and young people (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new expanded fraud strategy to tackle the full range of threats, including online, public sector and serious fraud (Source: Manifesto) - Work with national policing bodies and police staff to standardise approaches to procurement, IT, professional standards and training (Source: Manifesto) - Roll out a direct entry scheme for detectives to boost investigation skills (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a ‘Hillsborough Law’ which will place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities, and provide legal aid for victims of disasters or state related deaths (Source: Manifesto) | - Recruit 8,000 additional police officers (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - Strengthen police powers to seize and destroy blades, e.g. Zombie knives/machetes (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - Give police powers to enter premises without a warrant to seize stolen goods, e.g. phones (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - License police officers for specialist roles (as is already the case for firearms officers) to help restore trust in police (Source: Manifesto) - Fund every police force to roll out Hotspot Policing (Source: Manifesto) - Strengthen police powers to prevent protests or marches that pose a risk of serious disorder, by allowing police to take into account the cumulative impact of protests (Source: Manifesto) - Place a duty on the police and prosecutors to publish regular guidance on the statements, chants or symbols that in the context of political protest may constitute an offence (Source: Manifesto) - Ban face coverings, pyrotechnics, climbing on war memorials and protests outside schools (Source: Manifesto) | - Create a statutory guarantee for burglaries to be attended by police and properly investigated (Source: Manifesto) - Creating a new Online Crime Agency to tackle illegal content and activity online, such as personal fraud, revenge porn and threats and incitement to violence on social media (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap Police and Crime Commissioners and replace them with local Police Boards made up of councillors and representatives from relevant local groups (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the Police Remuneration Review Body to make it 'properly independent' of government (Source: Manifesto) - Put domestic abuse specialists in all police forces and 999 operator assistance centres (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a target of one hour for handover of people suffering from mental health crisis from police to mental health services (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure that all forces have a mental health professional in the control room at all times (Source: Manifesto) | - Recruit additional police officers to a level of 300 per 100k population, 40,000 new officers by the end of a 5 year parliament (Source Manifesto) - Increase stop and search substantially.(Source Manifesto) - Strong preference for ex-military officers and personell (Source Manifesto) - Raise standards for fitness and presentation for front line officers (Source Manifesto) - Sack Chief Constables that allow two-tier policing (Source Manifesto) - Cut paperwork to allow police to return to the beat with better technology (Source Manifesto) - Allow PCSOs to become police officers prior to the role being phased out (Source Manifesto) - Scrap all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion roles and regulations (Source Manifesto) - Make the police complaints system more accountable through overhauling the Indepedent Office of Police Conduct (Source Manifesto) - Replace degree standard entry for the College of Policing with an entrance exam (Source Manifesto) - Require officers to complete a 2-year probationary period. - De-politicise the College of Policing by prioritising crime prevention, discipline and high standards of strength and fitness for trainees (Source Manifesto) | - Transfer all criminal justice powers to the Welsh Government (Source: Manifesto) - Create a Minister of Justice in the Welsh Government (Source: Manifesto) - Remove the role of police and crime commissoners (Source: Manifesto) - Fight for a fairer funding formula whilst policing is not devolved (Source: Manifesto) - Require police officers to devlare memberships of clubs, societies and organisations (Source: Manifesto) - Focus policing on drug dealers and supply lines rather than users (Source: Manifesto) - Repeal police powers that harm the right to protest (Source: Manifesto) - Compensate Dyfed-Powys Police for the costs of policing protests at Llanelli’s Stradey park hotel (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
68 | Sentences for crimes | - Give police powers to use 'respect orders' (revamped Asbos) against adults for harassment, intimidating behaviour, drug use, littering and street drinking (Source: Telegraph, 30/05/2024) - Extend closure notices for 'drug dens' from 48 to 72 hours, giving police more time to get them shut down at court (Source: Mail Online, 09/06/2024) - End 'shoplifters' charter' where police do not press charges unless the value of stolen goods is more than £200 (Source: Mail Online, 09/06/2024) - Strengthen the use of Stalking Protection Orders and give women the right to know the identity of online stalkers (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new criminal offence for spiking (Source: Manifesto) - Strengthen the rights and protections available to women in co-habiting couples, as well as for whistleblowers in the workplace, including on sexual harassment (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the powers of the Victims' Commissioner (Source: Manifesto) - Carry out a sentencing review (Source: Manifesto) | - Give fly-tippers points on their driving license (Source: BBC News, 31/05/24) - Raise the minimum sentence from 15 to 25 years for murders that take place in the home (Source: The Times, 06/06/2024) - Conduct a review to consider introducing US-style first and second degree murder sentences (Source: The Times, 06/06/2024) - Increase the use of community payback and electronic tagging (Source: Manifesto) - Legislate to create new offences for spiking, the creation of sexualised deepfake images and taking intimate images without consent (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an aggravating factor for murders that happen in the context of 'rough sex' (Source: Manifesto) - Develop a new investigatory model for rape for police forces and prosecutors and pre-recorded cross- examination for victims in all Crown courts (Source: Manifesto) - Make life imprisonment without parole mandatory for more murderers and require rapists to spend the whole of their sentences in prison (Source: Manifesto) - Bring the mandatory reporting provisions of the Criminal Justice Bill into force as soon as possible (Source: Manifesto) - Design a redress scheme for the victims of child sexual abuse in institutional settings (Source: Manifesto) | Introduce a legal, regulated market for cannabis with sales restricted to over-18s only, from licensed retailers with strict limits on potency and THC content (Source: Manifesto) | Scrap the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Act, the Public Order Act (Source: Manifesto) | - Ensure prison sentences for all violent crimes and possessing a knife (Source Manifesto) - Introduce mandatory life imprisonment for drug dealing and trafficking (Source Manifesto) - Create a new offence of "Substantial Possession of Drugs" that will recieve heavy fines (Source Manifesto) - Mandatory life sentences for those committing second violent or serious offences (Source Manifesto) - Deport grooming gang offenders if they hold dual citizenship (Source Manifesto) - Make child grooming an aggrivating offence, (Source Manifesto) - Scrap bail for grooming gang offenders (Source Manifesto) - Ensure there is no legal aid for non-citizens (Source: Manifesto) - Immediately deport foreign nationals who have committed a crime after their prison sentence ends (Source: Manifesto) - Withdraw citizenship from migrants who commit crimes, apart from some misdemeanour offences (Source: Manifesto) | - Create a Victims Commissoner for Wales to represent victims of crimes and stand up for their rights (Source: Manifesto) - Increase sentences for domestic violence and stalking (Source: Manifesto) - Support policy of soft drug decriminalisation (Source: Manifesto) - Cleanse the criminal records of those cautioned or convicted of drug possession with no further aggregating factors (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
69 | Courts | - Fast track court process and legal advice for rape victims (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Create 80 new courts dedicated to hearing rape cases (Source: The Guardian, 08/06/2024) | - Empower judges to require offenders to attend hearings or face an increased sentence (Source: Manifesto) - Expand the provision of legal aid at inquests related to major incidents where the Independent Public Advocate is appointed or in the aftermath of terrorist incidents (Source: Manifesto) - Keep Nightingale courts open (Source: Manifesto) - Match fund 100 criminal law pupilages (Source: Manifesto) - Expand Pathfinder Courts pilot in family court procedings (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an Arbitration Bill and help individuals/SMEs bring cases against wealthier opponents by legislating to support third party funding of litigation (Source: Manifesto) | - Halve the time from offence to sentencing for all criminals (Source: Manifesto) - Enable all victims to request a transcript of court proceedings free of charge (Source: Manifesto) | Invest £2.5bn in the court system (Source: Manifesto) | - Increase the Criminal Justice Budget from £10 billion to £12 billion (Source Manifesto) - Reopen local magistrates' courts to clear case backlogs (Source Manifesto) - Change the definition of a hate crime so that people cannot be investigated because "any" person "percieves" a hate crime was committed (Source Manifesto) - Launch a special maintenance and defaults division of the Family Court, sharing parental care 50/50 where appropriate and allowing grandparents rights of access (Source Manifesto) | - Stop abusers harassing their victims in court proceedings and strengthen restraining orders and their sanctions (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure laws around sexual images are always based on consent not intent (Source: Manifesto) - Provide additional help to prevent legal aid "desserts" (Source: Manifesto) - Pilot a "courts in the community" scheme which would visit different areas resolving local justice needs.(Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
70 | Prevention and reoffending | Create Employment Councils made up of prison governors and local employers to drive down reoffending by linking offenders with training and jobs (Source: Labour, 09/06/2024) | - Deliver existing ten-year drugs plan to cut crime and help people rebuild their lives away from crime (Source: Manifesto) | - Divert people arrested for possession of drugs for personal use into treatment where appropriate (Source: Manifesto) - Take a public health approach to youth violence, including making youth diversion a statutory duty so that every part of the country has a pre-charge diversion scheme for young people up to the age of 25 (Source: Manifesto) | - Take a public health approach to drgs for personal use by decriminalising them and allowing supervised drug consumption facilities (Source: Manifesto) | - Give Cardiff additional funding for security arrangements there as a capital city (Source: Manifesto) - Create a Domestic Abuse Register (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure all professionals dealing with stalking cases have professional (Source: Manifesto) - Create four community based women's centres to support female offenders (Source: Manifesto) - Introude drug consumption rooms across Wales to tackle addiction.(Source: Manifesto) - Create an independent review of drug policy and policing.(Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
71 | Prisons, prisoner treatment and rehabilitation | - Deliver 20,000 prison places by designating prisons as sites of 'national importance' on public safety grounds, giving ministers the sole power to make planning decisions (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - Do a strategic review of probation governance, including considering the benefits of devolved models (Source: Manifesto) | - Build 4 new prisons (Source: Manifesto) - Remove more Foreign National Offenders by increasing removals under the Early Removal Scheme and negotiating more Prisoner Transfer Agreements (Source: Manifesto) - Maintain ban on prisoners voting from jail (Source: Manifesto) | - Replace Young Offender Institutions with Secure Schools and Secure Children’s Homes (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a National Resettlement Plan to improve the rehabilitation of people leaving prison and cut reoffending (Source: Manifesto | - Build 10,000 new detention places, using disused military bases if needed (Source Manifesto) | - Devolve control of services at all Welsh prisons to Welsh government, and remove private companies from the prison system in Wales (Source: Nation Cymru, 01/06/2024) - Review the effectiveness of short prison sentences for female offenders (Source: Manifesto) - Improve staff retention by reducing the retirement age (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
72 | Youth crime | - Open new youth hubs containing mental health staff and youth workers to prevent teenage knife crime (Source: Labour, 09/06/2024) - Refer every young person caught in possession of a knife will to a Youth Offending Team to complete a mandatory plan to prevent reoffending, with penalties including curfews, tagging, and custody for the most serious cases (Source: Manifesto) - Ban ninja swords, lethal zombiestyle blades and machetes, and strengthen rules to prevent online sales (Source: Manifesto) - Create local prevention partnerships to identify young people who could be drawn into violence and intervene (Source: Manifesto) - Put youth workers and mentors in A&E units and Pupil Referral Units funded by full recovery of the cost of firearm licensing (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new criminal offence of criminal exploitation of children (Source: Manifesto) | - Reopen high intensity training camps for young offenders (Source Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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76 | Net zero; sustainability; nature | Family financial security depends on energy security | Set up Great British Energy | Prioritise this country's energy security | A fair deal on the environment | Further, faster | Net Zero is Crippling our Economy | Protect Scottish oil and gas jobs | A Welsh Green New Deal | ||||||||||||||||
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78 | Energy mix (oil, gas, renewables) | - No new oil and gas project licenses (but honour existing licenses) (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Generate 98% of electricity from clean sources (Source: BBC News, 31/05/2024) - Double onshore wind by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Triple solar power by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Quadruple offshore wind by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in carbon capture and storage (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in hydrogen, in part through direct investment from the National Wealth Fund (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in marine energy (Source: Manifesto) - Extend the lifetime of existing nuclear plants, for example Sizewell C, and will ensure the that Hinkley Point C is brought on line (Source: Manifesto) - Support the build of new nuclear power stations and Small Modular Reactors (Source: Manifesto) - Maintain a strategic reserve of gas power stations (Source: Manifesto) - Will not grant new coal licences (Source: Manifesto) - Ban fracking permanently (Source: Manifesto) - Retain the Energy Security Investment Mechanism, which gives the oil and gas sector certainty that if oil and gas prices fall to a very low level the Energy Profits Levy will not apply (Source: Manifesto) | - Approve two new fleets of Small Modular Reactors within the first 100 days of the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Halve the time it takes for new nuclear reactors to be approved (Source: Manifesto) - Deliver a new gigawatt power plant at Wylfa and continue to deliver Hinkley Point and Sizewell projects (Source: Manifesto) - Support solar in the 'right places', not on 'best agricultural land' (Source: Manifesto) - Build the first two carbon capture and storage clusters, and progress the second round of projects (Source: Manifesto) - Treble offshore wind capacity (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to ensure there is 'community consent' for onshore wind development (Source: Manifesto) - Commit to annual licensing rounds for North Sea oil and gas production (Source: Manifesto) - Keep the energy profits levy in place until 2028-29 and maintain the investment allowances that provide incentives to invest in the North Sea (Source: Manifesto) - Support the development of new gas power stations (Source: Manifesto) - Retain the moratorium on fracking (Source: Manifesto) - Allow quicker changes to consented projects to speed up the build out of infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) - Focus the role of statutory consultees in the planning consent process on improving projects in line with clear objectives to prevent delays (Source: Manifesto) - Amend the law to discourage and prevent inappropriate legal challenges to nationally significant infrastructure projects (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest in renewable power so that 90% of the UK’s electricity is generated from renewables by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Remove new restrictions on new solar and wind power, and support investment and innovation in tidal and wave power in particular (Source: Manifesto) - Maintain the ban on fracking and introduce a ban on new coal mines (Source: Manifesto) - Implement the UK’s G7 pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies (Source: Manifesto) | - Ban fossil fuel advertising (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - End new oil and gas licesnes (Source: BBC News, 10/06/2024) - Remove all oil and gas subsidies (Source: Manifesto) - Push for wind to provide around 70% of the UK’s electricity by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Push for delivery of 80GW of offshore wind, 53 GW of onshore wind, and 100 GW of solar by 2035 (Source: Manifesto) - Phase out nuclear power (Source: Manifesto) - Commit to delivering net zero by 2050 (Source: Manifesto) - Guarantee a vote in the next Parliament on the “next stage of the pathway” to meet the net zero target (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap Net Zero (Source: Manifesto) - Fast-track licences for North Sea gas and oil (Source: Manifesto) - Grant shale case licences for 2 years on test sites, allowing major production when safety is proven with local compensation schemes (Source: Manifesto) - Fast-track new nuclear energy with small Modular Reactors, built in bBritain (Source: Manifesto) - Incentivse additional ethical UK lithium mining for electric batteries, combined cycle gas turbines, clean synthetic fuel, tidal power and explore clean coal mining (Source Manifesto) | - Support oil and gas sector whilst ensuring there is 'support that sector can give' to moving to renewables (Source: The Guardian, 01/06/2024) - Allow new oil and gas licenses in North Sea as long as they meet "climate compatibility tests" (Source: Daily Record, 05/06/2024) - Demand that Westminster devolves new borrowing powers to invest in a just transition and call for the UK government to match the SNP's £500 just transition fund for the North East and Moray (Source: Manifesto) - Demand the devolution of powers over energy regulation, pricing and production (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK government to invest at least £28 billion a year in the green economy, taking an equity stake in future energy projects (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK Government to modernise the Contracts for Difference Scheme. - Support the Just Transition particularly in the North East by calling on the UK Government to match the Scottish Government's £500 million investment (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK Government to secure a sustainable future for the Grangemouth refinery.Grangemouth - Rule out any new nuclear power plants in Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Promote Scottish hydrogen's export (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK Governmnet to ban new coal licences (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Four Nations Climate Response Group (Source: Manifesto) | Devolve crown estate to Wales so profits for offshore wind projects can be diverted to Wales (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - Devolve all powers over energy (Source: Manifesto) -Create a Welsh national energy company to expand community owned renewable energy (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose new nuclear power stations and new licences for oil and gas drilling (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a social tariff for energy (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
79 | Energy grid | Upgrade the national energy transmission infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) | - Aim for the UK to become a net exporter of electricity (Source: Manifesto) - Review the advantages of alternative network technologies compared to overhead pylons and consider introducing a presumption in favour of undergrounding “where cost competitive” (Source: Manifesto) - Cut waiting times for grid connections (Source: Manifesto) - Implement the recommendations of the Winser Review to accelerate the build of electricity transmission infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a Strategy Land and Sea Use Framework (details unspecified) to support building of grid infrastructure (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in energy storage, including green hydrogen, pumped storage and battery capability (Source: Manifesto) - Work together with our European neighbours to build a sustainable supply chain for renewable energy technology (Source: Manifesto) - Build more electricity interconnectors between the UK and other countries to guarantee security of supply (Source: Manifesto) - Give small low-carbon generators the right to export their electricity to an existing electricity supplier on fair terms (Source: Manifesto) - Require large energy suppliers to work with community schemes to sell the power they generate to local customers (Source: Manifesto) - Reduce access costs for grid connections (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the energy network (unspecified how) to permit local energy grids (Source: Manifesto) | - Push for a share of community ownership in local sustainable energy infrastructure such as wind farms (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in energy storage capacity and more efficient electricity distribution (Source: Manifesto) | - Change structures of national grid to allow local communities to benefit directly from new projects (Source: Manifesto) - Change planning policies to give communities a greater voice in planning major projects like the grid (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve responsibilities of Ofgem and establish a Welsh Energy Systems Operator (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | Utility companies | - Give regulator new powers to block water company boss bonuses until targets are met, with possibility of criminal prosecutions in most serious cases (Source: Labour website, 27/05/2024) - Put “failing” water companies under special measures (Source: Manifesto) - Strengthen OFGEMs regulatory powers, including ensuring that there is automatic customer compensation from energy suppliers (Source: Manifesto) - Extend the sunset clause in the Energy Profits Levy until the end of the next Parliament, increase the rate of the levy by 3 percent, and remove investment allowances (Source: Manifesto) | - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c033m49r1pro (Source: BBC News, 28/05/2024) - Maintain the energy price cap (Source: Manifesto) - Review and reform standing charges to keep them as low as possible (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce some form of locational pricing in the wholesale market (Source: Manifesto) - Give households the choice of smart energy tariffs (Source: Manifesto) - Implement recommendations of the Winser Review and cut waiting times to deliver household savings (Source: Manifesto) - Extend the £50 water rebate for those in the Sout West, across the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Work with OFWAT to hold companies to account, including banning executive bonuses if a company has committed a serious criminal breach (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the ‘Price Review’ regulatory process run by OFWAT which scrutinises water companies investment plans (Source: Manifesto) | - Make water companies pay a 'sewage tax' (Source: BBC, 30/05/2024) - Set legally binding sewage dumping targets to prevent dumping into sensitve nature sites by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Put local environmental experts as non-executive directors on water company boards (Source: BBC, 28/05/2024) - Promote the public benefit company model for monopoly utility companies (Source: Manifesto) - Ban bonuses for water bosses until discharges and leaks end (Source: Manifesto) - Replace Ofwat with more powerful regulator (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce single social tariff for water bills to reduce water poverty (Source: Manifesto) | - Bring the water companies and the Big 5 retail energy companies into public ownership (Source: Manifesto) | - Bring 50% of utilities into public ownership, the other 50% being owned by pension funds, ensuring standing charges are capped (Source: Manifesto) | - Call for a statutory social tarrif for energy, broadband and mobile charges for those that need one (Source: Manifesto) - Call for combining the Warm Home Discount and Energy Company Obligation to create a single fuel poverty scheme for Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a fair energy pricing and rebate scheme for highland and island residents (Source: Manifesto) | - Nationalise Port Talbot steelworks to prevent closures of their blast furnances, looking at future options for greening production (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
81 | Green industrial strategy | - Set up Great British Energy (£8.3bn over next 5 years) , a public sector energy company designed to invest in green energy projects (not produce energy itself) (Source: BBC News, 27/05/2024) - Create a National Wealth Fund, capitalised with £7.3 billion, with a target of attracting three pounds of private investment for every one pound of public investment (Source: Manifesto) - Create 650,000 jobs by 2030 due to the Green Prosperity Plan (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an Energy Independence Act as a legislative vehicle for their climate and energy policies (Source: Manifesto) - Commit £1.5 billion to new gigafactories to support the UK electric vehicle manufacturing industry (Source: Manifesto) - Commit £2.5 billion to support the UK steel industry (Source: Manifesto) - Commit £500 million to support the UKs nascent green hydrogen manufacturing industry (Source: Manifesto) - Develop a ten-year infrastructure strategy which is intended to guide investment plans and provide certainty about the project pipeline (Source: Manifesto) - Directly invest in ports, hydrogen and industrial clusters through the National Wealth Fund (Source: Manifesto) - Incentivise firms to use the UK supply chain through a Green Jobs Bonus which will use £500 million per year from 2026 to reward firms that offer “good jobs, terms and conditions and build their manufacturing supply chains” in key regions (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism intended to protect UK industries in the process of decarbonising from high-carbon imports, and incentivise decarbonisation (Source: Manifesto) - Create a coalition of countries taking ambitious climate action, titled the Clean Power Alliance (Source: Manifesto) - Reverse the government's decision to remove the formal requirement that the Bank of England take climate change into consideration in its decision making (Source: Manifesto) - Mandate that UK-regulated financial institutions and FTSE 100 companies develop and implement credible transition plans aligned with the 1.5C target (Source: Manifesto) | - Provide a bonus for energy developers that invest in UK manufacturing in the most disadvantaged UK areas, or invest in a sustainable UK supply chain (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to support the North Sea Transition Deal and Aberdeen City Region Deal (Source: Manifesto) - Provide £15 million to support Scotland’s Energy Transition Zone’s skills programmes (Source: Manifesto) - Continue with the Advanced Manufacturing Plan, providing a £4.5 billion commitment to secure strategic manufacturing sectors including automotive, aerospace, life sciences and clean energy (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £1.1 billion into the Green Industries Growth Accelerator to support British manufacturing capabilities (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to support domestic steel production in the UK (Source: Manifesto) - Implement a import carbon pricing mechanism by 2017 focussed on protecting decarbonising UK industries such as steel and ceramics from high-carbon imports (Source: Manifesto) | - Continue to participate in Horizon Europe and join the European Innovation Council (Source: Manifesto) - Aim for at least 3% of GDP to be invested in research and development by 2030, rising to 3.5% by 2034 (Source: Manifesto) - Create new powers for regulators to oversee financial services companies, including requiring pension funds/managers to show portfolio investments are consistent with the Paris Agreeement (Source: Manifesto) - Implement the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism for high-emission products (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest £12.4bn in skills and training, equipping workers to play a full role in the green economy (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap Net Zero and related subsidies, saving the public sector £30 billion over the next 25 years (Source: Manifesto) - Put equivalent taxes on renewable energy as on fossil fuels (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a Welsh Green New Deal (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Just Transition Commission (Source: Manifesto) - Increase Air Passenger Duty and Kerosene Tax for private jets (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
82 | Home insulation and household support | - Invest £6.6 billion over the next parliament to upgrade 5 million homes with the aim of energy bill reduction (Source: Manifesto) - Offer grants and low interest loans to support the public to invest in insulation and clean heat technology, and work with banks and building societies to provide further private finance options (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure the private rented sector meet minimum energy efficiency standards by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Guarantee there will be no mandate for households to remove their gas boiler (Source: Manifesto) - Improve resilience to climate change impacts at a central, local and community level, including formal work with the Fire and Rescue Services to establish national standards (Source: Manifesto) | - Lower green levies on households (Source: Manifesto) - Commitment to not introduce road pricing schemes or a frequent flyer levy (Source: Manifesto) - Deliver an open data scheme which will give real-time fuel pump prices for consumers (Source: Manifesto) - Invest £6 billion in energy efficiency over three years to make a million homes warmer (Source: Manifesto) - Fund a voucher scheme, open to every household in England, for the installation of energy efficiency measures and solar panels (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand incentives for households to install solar panels, including a guaranteed fair price for electricity sold back into the grid (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a ten-year emergency Home Energy Upgrade programme, starting with free insulation and heat pumps for those on low incomes, and ensure that all new homes are zero-carbon (Source: Manifesto) - Provide incentives for installing heat pumps that cover the real costs (Source: Manifesto) - Require all new homes and non-domestic buildings to be built to a zero-carbon standard, including being fitted with solar panels, and progressively increasing standards as technology improves (Source: Manifesto) - Reintroduce requirements for landlords to upgrade the energy efficiency of their properties to EPC C or above by 2028 (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new subsidised Energy-Saving Homes scheme, with pilots to find the most effective combination of tax incentives, loans and grants, together with advice and support (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a social tariff for the most vulnerable to provide targeted energy discounts for vulnerable households (Source: Manifesto) - Decouple electricity prices from the wholesale gas price (Source: Manifesto) | - Call on the UK Government to ban the import and sale of non zero-emission buses by 2025 (Source: Manifesto) | - Reduce standing chargers for energy for households in Wales (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
83 | Nature | - Introduce a countryside protection plan including planting 3 new national forests, taskforces for tree-planting and flood resilience, banning bee-killing pesticides and commitments to revising wetlands and peat bogs (Source: The Guardian, 06/06/2024) - Create 'hundreds of miles' of new river pathways via Natural England negotiating with landowners for rights of way (Source: The Guardian, 06/06/2024) New manifesto detail: Create nine new National River Walks, one in each English region | - Continue the ban on deep sea mining (Source: Manifesto) - Ratify the Global Oceans treaty, a UN treaty which would provide the legislative framework to allow for conservation of marine biodiversity in international waters (Source: Manifesto) - Deliver existing tree planting and peatland commitments (Source: Manifesto) - Use fines from water companies to invest in river restoration projects (Source: Manifesto) - Launch a design competition for urban greening (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the planning system so it is easier to plant trees, for example identifying suitable areas where the planning process can be streamlined (Source: Manifesto) - Deliver on the COP28 commitment to introduce forest risk commodities legislation early in the next Parliament to reduce illegal deforestation abroad (Source: Manifesto) - Designate a new 11th National Park and improve existing National Parks and protected landscapes (Source: Manifesto) - Use the existing Landscape Recovery Scheme to support more local nature projects (Source: Manifesto) - Continue programmes that encourage disadvantaged children and young people to access nature (Source: Manifesto) - Deliver existing commitments on National Trails, which are public rights of ways (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to pursue ‘access to nature routes’ which improves public access to Protected Landscapes and National Trails (Source: Manifesto) - Commitment to not introduce a universal Right to Roam (Source: Manifesto) - Abolish the ‘nutrient neutrality’ rule for housing developers, and require developers to pay a one-off mitigation fee to prevent net additional pollution (Source: Manifesto) - Continue the policy of government devolving planning decisions on development of Green Belt sites to local authorities (Source: Manifesto) - Reform current policy related to environmental protection and the building of new infrastructure to better protect nature and enable development. For example, reform the current model of environmental impact assessments (Source: Manifesto) | - Expand the blue belt of Marine Protected Areas to cover at least 50% of UK territorial waters by 2030 (Source: The Independent, 02/06/2024) - Introduce new Blue Flag status for rivers, setting legally binding targets to prevent sewage dumping (Source: The Independent, 02/06/2024) - Create three new national parks in England (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - Plant 60 million trees per year (Source: BBC News, 08/06/2024) - ‘Double nature’ by 2050: doubling the size of the Protected Area Network, doubling the area of most important wildlife habitats, doubling the abundance of species and doubling woodland cover by 2050 (Source: Manifesto) - Pass a Clean Air Act, based on World Health Organization guidelines, enforced by a new Air Quality Agency (Source: Manifesto) - Increase the amount of accessible green space, including protecting up to a million acres, completing the coastal path, exploring a ‘right to roam’ for waterways and creating a new designation of National Nature Parks (Source: Manifesto) - Pass a new Environmental Rights Act, recognising everyone’s human right to a healthy environment and guaranteeing access to environmental justice (Source: Manifesto) - Apply to join the European Environment Agency (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a deposit return scheme for food and drink bottles and containers (Source: Manifesto) - Eliminate non-recyclable single-use plastics within three years and replacing them with affordable alternatives (Source: Manifesto) - Ban the use of horticultural peat and the routine burning of heather on peatlands (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new Animal Welfare Bill to ensure the highest standards possible (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a new Rights of Nature Act, giving rights to nature itself (Source: Manifesto) - Extend people’s access to green space and waterways close to where they live with a new English Right to Roam Act (Source: Manifesto) - Set aside 30% of UK's land and seas by 2030 in which nature will receive the highest priority and protection (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a new Clean Air (Human Rights) Act, giving everyone the right to breathe clean air (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new Commission on Animal Protection (Source: Manifesto) - Ban blood sports, including trail hunting (Source: Manifesto) | - Call on the UK government to have a fairer funding model for climate policies (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a Business, Human Rights and Environment Bill to mandate private companies to prevent their supply chains doing human righs abuses or environmental harms (Source: Manifesto) - Devolve all powers over natural resources to the Welsh Government (Source: Manifesto) - Set higher environmental targets on water quality and lower prices (Source: Manifesto) - Request powers over sewage from Westminster (Source: Manifesto) - Consider the impact on natural beauty of projects like large scale solar or electricity pylons (Source: Manifesto) - Get Westminster to pay for the clearing of disused coal tips (Source: Manifesto) -Introduce biodiversity targets, halt the decline of biodiversity by 2030 and ensure a real recovery by 2050 (Source: Manifesto) - Avoid energy projects being built on landscapes that are vital to biodiversity (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
84 | Farming | - Introduce a new land-use framework on how to best deliver food security and 'thriving' natural environments, including encouraging farmers to use more environmentally regenerative methods (Source: The Guardian, 06/06/2024) - “Unlock” the building of homes affected by nutrient neutrality without weakening environmental protections (Source: Manifesto) - Set a target for 50% of public sector food expenditure to be spent on food produced locally or certified to high environmental standards (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure environment land management schemes work for farmers and nature (Source: Manifesto) - Work to eradicate Bovine TB to ensure livelihoods are protected and the eventual end of badger culling (Source: Manifesto) - Ban trail hunting and the importing of hunting trophies (Source: Manifesto) - End the use of snare traps (Source: Manifesto) | - Increase the grant funding for farmers by £1 billion over the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a £20m Farming Innovation Fund, and continue to ringfence agricultural funding for R&D and innovation (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a legally binding target to improve UK food security, which will also apply to devolved states (Source: Manifesto) - Reform public sector procurement so that 50% of food expenditure is spent on food produced locally or to higher environmental production standards (Source: Manifesto) - Reform the planning system to speed up the delivery of infrastructure on farms (Source: Manifesto) - Prioritise R&D funding for “cutting edge technology” in food and farming, such as fertiliser innovation (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a five-year visa tapered scheme for farming labour, to reduce the farming sectors reliance on seasonal migrant labour (Source: Manifesto) - Promote agri-food careers and skills to support the farming labour market (Source: Manifesto) - Stand up for farmers when negotiating trade deals, for example continue to support UK agri-food and drink attachés in UK embassies abroad (Source: Manifesto) - Continue the UK Farm to Fork Summit each year (Source: Manifesto) - Provide an additional £100 million for the UK Seafood Fund to provide the capex for SMEs and inshore fleets to, for example, make harbour upgrades (Source: Manifesto) - Require the Scottish Government to annually report on how it uses central funding for fishing and farming (Source: Manifesto) | - Invest additional £1bn in agricultural budget to improve productivity, training and technology in the sector (Source: Express and Star, 28/05/2024) New manifesto detail: Much of this money will go via new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes - Introduce 'public money for public goods programmes' (e.g. planting trees, nature recovery) contingent on farmers opting into ELM schemes (Source: Manifesto) - Invest in more rural and coastal infrastructure like local abattoirs (Source: Manifesto) - Ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a Research and Innovation Fund for farming to support emerging tech (incl development of alternative proteins) (Source: Manifesto) | - Immediately end the emergency authorisation of bee-killing pesticides (Source: Manifesto) - End badger culling (Source: Manifesto) - End factory farming, enforce maximum stocking densities, and stop routine use of antibiotics in farm animals (Source: Manifesto) - Ban close confinement in cages and the deliberate and unnecessary mutilation of farm animals (Source: Manifesto) - Triple financial support for farmers to support their transition to nature-friendly farming (Source: Manifesto) - Link farm payments to reduced use of pesticides and other agro-chemicals (Source: Manifesto) | - Increase the farming budget to £3 billion focusing on: using farm land, bringing young people into farming, boosting rural economies and innovation (Source: Manifesto) - Scrap climate related subsidies to encourage farmland to be used, replace these subsidies with direct payments (Source: Manifesto) - Protect country sports (Source: Manifesto) - Give new powers to the competition and markets authority to ensure fair supermarket pricing. - Change planning laws to allow farm shops and scrap business rates on them (Source: Manifesto) - Target 70% food security and mandate taxpayer funded organsiations to source 75% of their food from the UK. - Cut red tape from HMRC and the British Cattle Movement Service. - Tax breaks and other incentives for small food processors and abattoirs (Source: Manifesto) - Ban pair trawling for bass beond the South East and 12-mile territorial waters (Source: Manifesto) - Ban Dutch Vessels from electric pulse fishing in Briain's waters (Source: Manifesto) - Incetivise all fish caught in UK waters to be processed here (Source: Manifesto) - Use tax incentives and vocational training to increase UK fishing fleets (Source: Manifesto) - Implement a "dynamic management system" for fishing to ensure sustainable stocks (Source: Manifesto) | - Call on the UK Government to pilot a rural visa scheme (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK Government to increase funding for farming to at least pre-Brexit levels (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK to give Scotland its fair share of marine funding through multi-annual frameworks (Source: Manifesto) | - Give Wales a veto over trade deals that undermine Welsh farming communities (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposal for 10% tree cover on all farms (Source: Manifesto) - Improve the incentive structure of the scheme (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce a braoder approach to tackling bovine TB (Source: Manifesto) - Reintroduce livestock worrying legislation (Source: Manifesto) - Improve transparency within the supply chain and strengthen the Groceries Adjudicator's powers to tackle unfair supply chain practices (Source: Manifesto) - Require food labelling to specify "Welsh" rather than "British" (Source: Manifesto) - Double the Rural Fuel Duty relief to 10p per litre and ensure it takes account of access to public transport (Source: Manifesto) - Remove tax on renewable liquid fuels (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
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88 | Make Britain fit to fight | Nuclear deterrent triple lock | A strong UK and a fair international order | Strngthen our armed forces and empower our veterans | |||||||||||||||||||||
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90 | Spending (incl NATO contribution) | - Review defence costs (but no timetable set out on increasing to 2.5% of NI) (Source: BBC News, 27/05/2024) - Implement 'nuclear deterrent triple lock', including 4 new nuclear submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness, continuation of 24/7, 365 day at-sea deterrent, and delivery of all future upgrades needed to continue patrols (Source: BBC News, 03/06/2024) - Launch strategic defence review within first year of government to assess capabilities needed, resources available and threats the country faces (Source: BBC News, 03/06/2024) - Apply a "NATO test" to all defence programmes to ensure that the UK meets all its obligations (Source: Manifesto) - Spend 2.5% of GDP a year on defence (Source: Manifesto) | - Raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 (Source: Conservatives website, 28/05/2024) - Keep the UK's nuclear deterrent (Source: BBC General Election Debate, 06/06/2024) - Launch a campaign to set a new baseline of 2.5% for all NATO allies by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) - Invest at least £10bn in munitions production over the next decade (Source: Manifesto) - Use new Defence Innovation Agency to scale R&D funding to a minimum of 5% of UK defence spend, plus an additional 2% to exploit R&D - especially in new weapons systems (Source: Manifesto) - Continue delivering the new Integrated Procurement Model (Source: Manifesto) - Aim to be the largest defence exporter in Europe by 2030 (Source: Manifesto) | - Keep the UK's nuclear deterrent (Source: BBC General Election Debate, 06/06/2024) - Have an 'ambition' to spend at least 2.5% GDP on defence (Source: Manifesto) | Do not renew Trident (Source: BBC General Election Debate, 06/06/2024) | - Increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by year three and 3% within six years (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap Trident (Source: BBC News, 03/06/2024) - Increase interntation aid budget to 0.7% of GDP (Source: Manifesto) | - Aim for nuclear disarmament (Source: BBC News, 09/06/2024) - Withold arms sales to countries with poor human rights records (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose increasing defence spending (Source: Manifesto) - Call on the UK government to reinstate its committment to 0.7% of GDP spent on international aid (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
91 | Personnel | - Repeal the Northern Ireland Legacy Act which gives conditional amnesty for crimes committed in Northern Ireland during the troubles (Source: The Times, 03/06/2024) - Introduce an armed forces commissioner to champion service members and their families and codify a new armed forces covenant into law, guaranteeing those current and former members of the armed forces are treated with “fairness and respect” (Souce: BBC News, 06/06/2024) - Scrap visa fees for non-UK veterans who have served for 4+ years and their dependents (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds including 30,000 selective military placements (Source: BBC News, 26/05/2024) - Reduce the price of veterans railcards by a third, from £30 to £21 a year (Souce: BBC News, 06/06/2024) - Introduce veterans bill to put military qualifications on equal standing with civilian ones and to criminalise wearing of medals that people are not entitled to (Souce: BBC News, 06/06/2024) - Maintain the base operating budget of the Office for Veterans Affairs at £10 million throughout the next Parliament (Source: Manifesto) - Retain the National Insurance holiday for those who employ veterans (Source: Manifesto) - Bring forward measures so that War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme awards are not counted as income for the purpose of benefits and pensions (Source: Manifesto) - Extend the visa fees waiver introduced to cover Commonwealth personnel, to include their direct dependants. Fully implement the findings of the independent review by Veterans UK (Source: Manifesto) - Bring forward measures to ensure public bodies record whether someone has served in the UK’s Armed Forces (Source: Manifesto) | - Improve MoD housing by reviewing maintenance contracts (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) - Ensure that military compensation for illness or injury does not impact means testing for benefits (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) - Waive application fees for indefinite leave for members of the armed forces on discharge, and their families (Source: Manifesto) - Have a 'long term ambition' to get troop numbers back to over 100,000 (Source: Manifesto) | - Introduce a priority status for veterans, putting them first for access to housing, training and healthcare (Souce: BBC, 06/06/2024) - Create an urgent pay review to increase basic pay (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce an Armed Forces Justice Bill to protect servicemen and women from legal challenges and create an armed forces watchdog to fast-track complaints and appeals around housing and welfare (Source: Manifesto) - Create a new dedicated ministerial department for veterans (Source: Manifesto) - Recruit 30,000 for the army (Source: Manifesto) | - Raise the recruitment age to 18 (Source: Manifesto) - Create an Armed Forces Representative Body (Source: Manifesto) | - Have an independent review of medical discharge and introduce an income disregard for the War pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||
92 | National security | - 100-day "security sprint" review of threats facing Britain (Source: The Times, 26/05/2024) - Bring in 'Martyn's Law' to strengthen security of public events and venues (Source: Manifesto) - Produce a defence industrial strategy to ensure a strong defence sector and resiliant supply chains (Source: Manifesto) - Establish a Military Strategic Headquaters and National Armaments Director (Source: Manifesto) - Defend sovereignty of overseas territories like the Falklands (Source: Manifesto) | Scrap the Prevent programme (Source: Manifesto) | - Create new incentives for the UK defence industry, improving equpment self-suffiency (Source: Manifesto) - Create a Joint Aquisition Corp for defence procurement, listening to front line soldiers and catering to their needs (Source: Manifesto) - Guarantee free education during and after service for military personnel (Source: Manifesto) | - Focus on tackling disinformation and misinformation (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||||
93 | International affairs | - Push for Israel/Gaza ceasefire, prioritise getting in aid, begin political process towards two-state solution, review weapons licesnes to see if any armaments are being used in Rafah (Source: BBC News, 03/06/2024) - Recognise state of Palestine 'at the right time in a peace process' (Source: Reuters, 24/05/2024) - Call for a special tribunal for the Crime of Agression for Putin (Source: Manifesto) - Seize frozen Russian assets and use them to support Ukraine and support Ukraine's NATO membership (Source: Manifesto) - Work with international partners to tackle money laundering and corruption in all British territories (Source: Manifesto) - Remain committed to AUKUS (Source: Manifesto) - Audit our relationship with China (Source: Manifesto) - New UK-EU security pact to enable stronger co-operation tackling international threats (Source: Manifesto) - Bilateral agreements with Joint Expeditionary Force partners (Source: Manifesto) - Push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, along with the return of all hostages and an increase of international aid as well as making sure international law is adheared to (Source: Manifesto) - Recognise a Palestinian state (Source: Manifesto) - Restore the committment to 0.7 % of GDP being spent on international aid when fiscal circumstances allow, working with the Independent Commission for Aid to ensure value for money. | - Secure additional military supplies for Ukraine (Source: Manifesto) - Sign new defence treaties with Germany and Poland, to match the agreement with France under Lancaster House (Source: Manifesto) - Return development spending to 0.7% of GDP when the public finances allow, with all money spent in the meantime subject to a strict 'national interest test' (Source: Manifesto) - Publish a new Soft Power Strategy to support the role of our embassies and the British Council overseas (Source: Manifesto) - Introduce new Family Advocates to help provide specialist assistance and give greater confidence to families in complex overseas detention cases - Push for a two-state solution in the Middle East - including recognising a Palestinian State at a time that is 'most conducive to the peace process' (Source: Manifesto) - Bring back Bill to ban public bodies from imposing their own boycott or divestment campaigns against foreign countries and territories (Source: Manifesto) | - Immediate bilateral ceasfire and work towards a two-state solution (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) - Immediately recognise the state of Palestine (Source: Manifesto) - Work together with European neighbours to tackle the climate emergency, including by associating the UK Emissions Trading System with the EU ETS (Source: Manifesto) - Develop closer cooperation with EU agencies and member states over defence, intelligence and cyber-security (Source: Manifesto) - Seek a defence and security agreement with the EU and its member states (Source: Manifesto) - Return international development spending to 0.7% of national income, with tackling climate change a key priority for development spending (Source: Manifesto) | - Push for an immediate bilateral ceasefire, an end to arms sales to Israel, redoubled efforts to secure the release of hostages, an 'urgent international effort to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land', a durable political solution that ensures security and equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians, the reinstatement of funding for UNRWA and support for South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice (Source: Manifesto) - Push for the UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and following this to immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme and removing all foreign nuclear weapons from UK soil (Source: Manifesto) - Work with international partners to enlarge membership of the TPNW and ensure that all states meet their commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Manifesto) - Work within NATO to push for a greater focus on global peacebuilding and get commitments to 'No First Use' of nuclear weapons (Source Manifesto) - Increase international aid to 1% of gross national income (GNI) by 2033. - Increase climate finance for the Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033, with an additional contribution to a newly established Loss and Damage Fund | - Cut Foreign Aid by 50%, and have a major review into the effectiveness of overseas aid (Souce: Manifesto) - Reject the influence of the World Economic Forum (Source: Manifesto) - Reject the World Health Organisation Treaty and cancel our membership of WHO unless there is substantial reform (Source: Manifesto) - Oppose a central bank of digital currency (Source: Manifesto) | Recognise the state of Palestine (Source: BBC News, 04/06/2024) - Demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to support Ukraine (Source: Manifesto) - Implement a "Scottish Connections Framework (Source: Manifesto) - Agree an EU-wide Youth Mobility Scheme (Source: Manifesto) | - Maintain our place in the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court (Source: Manifesto) - Call for an immeadiate ceasefire in Gaza (Source: Manifesto) - Recognise the state of Palastine (Source: Manifesto) - Act on any arrest warrants from international courts against Isreali government ministers (Source: Manifesto) - Continue to support Ukraine (Source: Manifesto) - Push for Wales to be represented in Eurovision (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||
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96 | Brexit and Trade | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | Top line | Top policy | ||||||||||
97 | A closer relationship with the EU | Get Britain 'back into the heart' of Europe | A fairer, greener world | Re-join the EU (when political conditions right) | Unlock the major opportunities of Brexit. | Riscind retained EU laws. | An independent Scotland in the EU | ||||||||||||||||||
98 | Areas | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | Detail | |||||||||||||||||
99 | Opportunities (incl trade deals) | - Targetted trade agreements that align with industrial strategy (Source: Manifesto) - Require UK trade negotiators to work with all devolved governments (Source: Manifesto) - Publish a trade strategy and use "every lever necessary" to increase UK business' access to international markets (Source: Manifesto) - Negotiate standalone sector specific deals for sectors like digital and mutual recognition agreements (Source: Manifesto) - Seek a strategic parnetship with India, including a new free trade agreement (Source: Manifesto) - Develop a new approach to relations with African countries (Source: Manifesto) - Create a Clean Power Alliance of countries tackling climate change (Source: Manifesto) - | - Complete free trade deals with India and with the Gulf Cooperation Council (Source: Manifesto) - Build on the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU as long as it doesn't involve 'submission to the CJEU' or dynamic alignment (Source: Manifesto) - Finalise a free trade agreement with India (Source: Manifesto) - Sign partnership agreements with each of the British Overseas Territories (Source: Manifesto) | - Ensure parliament is properly consulted on and signs off on negotiating mandates and any completed international trade agreements (Source: Manifesto) - Ensure that all information small and medium-sized enterprises need on trade is readily available from a single point of contact, with tailored support for those who need it (Source: Manifesto) - Place human rights, labour and environmental standards and protection at the heart of international trade deal (Source: Manifesto) - Review UK excise duty structure to better support whisky exports (Source: Manifesto) - Seek a comprehensive mutual recognition agreement with the European Medicines Agency (Source: Manifesto) - Renegotiate the Australia and New Zealand trade agreements in line with our objectives for health, environmental and animal welfare standards, withdrawing from them if that cannot be achieved (Source: Manifesto) | - Ensure a "Brexit Bonus" by cutting unnecessary EU regulations that Britain has retained (Souce: Manifesto) - End automatic access to UK waters and require foreign fishing vessels to pay a license to use UK waters (Source: Manifesto) - Look into possibly creating a dedicated coast guard or fisheries protection agency to police UK waters (Source: Manifesto) | - Give Wales a veto over trade deals that undermine Welsh farming communities (Source: Manifesto) | |||||||||||||||||||
100 | New relationship with EU | Not rejoin single market or customs union, but renegotiate a deal on veterinary agreements to reduce paperwork on food and drink exports (Source: The Guardian, 03/06/2024) - New UK-EU security pact to enable stronger co-operation tackling international threats (Source: Manifesto) | - Rejoin Interpol (Source: The Guardian, 02/06/2024) - 'Move towards' the free movement of people (Source: The Guardian, 02/06/2024) - Follow a four-stage roadmap (including partnerships with EU agencies and negotiating a deeper trading relationship) ending in rejoining the Single Market (Source: Manifesto) | - Re-join the EU 'when the political conditions are right' (Source: Manifesto) | - Scrap the Windsor Framework (Souce: Manifesto) - Pull out of the EU horizon framework. - Prepare to renegotiate the EU trade and cooperation agreement (Souce: Manifesto) | - Rejoin the EU as an independent Scotland (Source: Manifesto) - Join the single market until then (Source: The Guardian, 02/06/2024) - Agree a veterinary agreement with the EU (Source: Manifesto) | Rejoin single market and customs union (Source: The Guardian, 31/05/2024) - An independent Wales would rejoin the European Union (Source: Manifesto) - Enable Wales to take part in pan-European programmes (Source: Manifesto) - Examine how to benefit from Creative Europe (Source: Manifesto) | ||||||||||||||||||