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Set the adult National Living Wage at £15 from April 2027, excluding automatic youth-rate alignment.

Require annual public-sector pay awards to match CPI inflation as a minimum from 2027-28.

Add recurring real-terms public-sector pay rises above inflation from 2027-28.

Give public-sector workers below median pay an extra GBP 1,500 annual uplift from 2027-28.

Limit highest total remuneration to ten times the lowest full-time-equivalent pay in each organisation.

Guarantee two years of pay protection for workers moved through publicly supported transition schemes.

Replace employee, worker and dependent-contractor boundaries with one core employment status.

Require outsourced, agency and directly employed comparable workers to receive equal core terms.

Increase minimum paid annual leave from 28 to 35 days including bank holidays.

Create six weeks of paid partner leave and stronger non-transferable paid parental leave.

Protect workers from routine work contact outside contracted hours, with employer duty guidance.

Require assessments, worker consultation and human review for AI hiring, monitoring and discipline.

Require guaranteed-hours contracts for regular variable-hours workers, with compensation for cancelled shifts.

Set adult social-care pay and core terms through a statutory sectoral negotiating body.

Give unions workplace access rights and allow secure electronic ballots for statutory votes.

Extend ordinary unfair-dismissal protection from six months to day one, with probation rules.

Prohibit dismissal and re-engagement to impose worse terms except in genuine insolvency rescue.

Remove post-1979 strike restrictions, including limits on ballots, picketing and solidarity action.

Increase workplace equality enforcement, reporting duties and penalties for persistent discrimination.

Raise the personal allowance to GBP 20,000 and the higher-rate threshold to GBP 70,000.

Remove VAT and policy levies from domestic energy bills, with no replacement levy modelled.

Reduce fuel duty by 20 pence per litre for petrol and diesel motorists.

Set residential stamp duty to zero below GBP 750,000 in England and Northern Ireland.

Abolish inheritance tax below GBP 2m and charge 20% above that level.

Reduce the main corporation-tax rate to 20%, then 15%, with a GBP 100,000 profit allowance.

Increase the VAT registration threshold from GBP 90,000 to GBP 150,000 for small businesses.

Remove off-payroll working rules that tax disguised employment through personal service companies.

Abolish business rates for high-street SMEs and add an online delivery tax on large firms.

Cut hospitality VAT to 10%, beer duty by 10%, employer NI and pub business rates.

Charge higher employer National Insurance for foreign workers, with health, care and microbusiness exemptions.

End indefinite leave to remain and bar foreign nationals from welfare access in the central scenario.

Build 24,000 removal-centre places and run up to five deportation flights a day.

Reduce UK overseas aid spending to a GBP 1bn annual cap, excluding unspecified exceptions.

Reduce civil-service headcount by 68,500 roles and change bonuses, pensions and office rules.

Reduce Bank of England interest paid on commercial-bank reserves created through quantitative easing.

Remove net-zero policies, renewable subsidies and related levies while expanding domestic fossil-fuel production.

Exempt frontline NHS and social-care staff from basic-rate income tax for three years.

Give 20% tax relief on private healthcare and insurance, with NHS-demand savings unproven.

Set crypto capital-gains tax at 10%, create a sandbox and explore a Bitcoin reserve.

Increase defence spending beyond the 2.5% path, reaching 3% of GDP within six years.

Increase England's farming budget to GBP 3bn and replace climate-related farm schemes.

Charge wealthy migrants GBP 250,000 for a 10-year foreign-income tax exemption.

Withdraw benefits after two refused job offers for claimants judged fit for work.

Allow one spouse to transfer 25% of their personal allowance to the other spouse.

Tighten working-age and disability-benefit eligibility, using GBP 23bn of claimed annual savings as the upper case.

Reduce Civil Service employment by 132,000 posts, with savings dependent on redundancy costs and service redesign.

Build detention, casework and enforcement capacity to remove up to 150,000 people per year.

Prioritise or restrict new social housing allocations to UK nationals, with vulnerable exceptions unspecified.

Reduce UK aid spending further, using the party’s GBP 7bn claimed saving as the upper case.

Remove selected green subsidies, using the party’s GBP 1.6bn claimed annual saving as the high case.

Remove residential stamp duty for primary residences, while leaving second-home and investor treatment unspecified.

Remove business rates for qualifying high-street businesses, with replacement funding or online levy unspecified.

Pay or credit up to GBP 5,000 for young people entering a first job, with eligibility still unspecified.

Restore more generous agricultural property relief from inheritance tax for qualifying family farms.

Restore more generous business property relief from inheritance tax for qualifying family businesses.

Reverse the 20 percent VAT charge on private-school education and boarding services.

Remove the additional oil and gas profits levy before the current expiry date.

Remove selected carbon-pricing measures, including the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism where applicable.

Abolish VAT on household energy bills for three years, then review continuation.

Keep the temporary 5p fuel-duty cut rather than allowing the scheduled rise to take effect.

Issue new North Sea oil and gas licences, alongside repeal or softening of existing restrictions.

Remove mandatory zero-emission vehicle sales targets and related penalties for car and van manufacturers.

Remove the 2025 employment-rights package, including guaranteed-hours, dismissal, sick-pay and union-access changes.

Loosen or simplify off-payroll working rules for contractors, with exact status tests unspecified.

Remove selected climate, sustainability and diversity reporting requirements for companies and financial firms.

Cap Plan 2 student-loan interest at inflation rather than RPI plus up to three percentage points.

Add 100,000 apprenticeship opportunities for 18 to 21-year-olds, with up to GBP 5,000 support per apprentice.

Recruit 10,000 police officers and target patrols at 2,000 crime hotspots.

Legislate minimum service levels or a strike ban for doctors to reduce NHS disruption.

Increase defence spending to 3 percent of GDP earlier than the current spending-review path.

Reverse any removal of the two-child limit in Universal Credit and tax credits.

Tax individual wealth above GBP 10m annually, with a higher rate above GBP 1bn.

Tax capital gains at income-tax rates while reforming reliefs.

Bring investment income into National Insurance and remove the upper earnings limit.

Levy a broad carbon tax starting at GBP 120 per tonne and rising over time.

Increase annual green public investment across energy, transport, homes and industry.

Bring water companies and major energy suppliers into public ownership.

Spend about GBP 29bn over five years on home insulation.

Spend around GBP 9bn over five years on heating systems.

Fund 150,000 new social homes a year and end Right to Buy.

Restrict private-rent increases and strengthen tenant protections.

Spend GBP 20bn a year on social care and free personal care.

Invest GBP 20bn over the Parliament in NHS buildings and equipment.

Increase NHS dentistry funding by around GBP 3bn per year.

Add around GBP 1.5bn a year to public-health funding.

Fund universal free school meals and breakfast clubs for pupils.

Increase school funding, including teacher pay, by around GBP 8bn.

Add around GBP 5bn for special educational needs and disabilities support.

End undergraduate tuition fees and restore student maintenance grants.

Invest around GBP 2.5bn annually in walking and cycling infrastructure.

Spend up to GBP 5bn a year on vehicle scrappage and electric-vehicle transition.

Add funding for nature protection, landowner grants and environmental enforcement.

Increase English local-government funding by around GBP 5bn per year.

Spend around GBP 30bn over the Parliament on railway improvements.

Use public capital to support regional mutual banks and local business lending.

Fund free personal care for adults based on the Scottish model.

Increase Carer’s Allowance and smooth the earnings cliff edge.

Raise adult social-care pay by a sector-specific minimum wage.

Remove the two-child limit, benefit cap and bedroom tax.

Fund 8,000 additional GPs and primary-care capacity.

Fund access to an NHS dentist for urgent and emergency care.

Place a dedicated mental-health professional in every school.

Extend free school meals to all children in poverty.

Provide targeted tutoring support for pupils who need extra help.

Add free hours for disadvantaged children and raise early-years support.

Restore maintenance grants and create Lifelong Skills Grants.

Replace business rates with a Commercial Landowner Levy on landowners.

Reform CGT rates and reliefs while adding allowances for inflation and small businesses.

Raise bank levy and surcharge revenues to earlier real-terms levels.

Increase the Digital Services Tax from 2 percent to 6 percent.

Apply a 4 percent tax to FTSE 100 share buyback schemes.

Shift aviation taxation toward frequent flyers and private-jet users.

Allow asylum seekers to work after three months while cutting the asylum backlog.

Reduce central-government consultancy spending by around half.

Support a target of 150,000 social homes a year through public investment.

Invest in home energy upgrades, renewables, grid and storage.

Fund youth transport discounts and support buses, trams and trains.

Return UK development assistance toward 0.7 percent of GNI.

Establish a new authority to enforce minimum wage, sick pay and worker rights.

Require a 20 percent higher minimum wage for zero-hours workers at normal times.

Increase employer NICs to 15 percent and lower the secondary threshold from April 2025.

Apply 20 percent VAT and remove business-rate relief for private schools.

Move to a residence-based tax regime and tighten foreign-income and inheritance-tax rules.

Increase main CGT rates and phase higher relief rates for business disposals.

Increase and extend the oil and gas levy while removing some investment allowances.

Provide public capital to crowd in investment in ports, steel, hydrogen and industrial clusters.

Invest public capital in a state-owned clean-energy company and local power projects.

Fund insulation, low-carbon heating and home-energy upgrades for households.

Fund most domestic Renewables Obligation costs from the Exchequer for three years.

Restore mandatory targets and speed planning decisions to support 1.5 million homes.

Use the Spending Review settlement to support social and affordable housing delivery.

Transfer passenger rail services into public ownership as contracts expire.

Phase in day-one rights, guaranteed hours, union access and enforcement reforms.

Roll out free breakfast clubs in primary schools, starting with 2,000 schools.

Open around 3,000 nurseries in primary schools to expand early-years capacity.

Fund 6,500 additional expert teachers in shortage subjects.

Deliver two million more operations, scans and appointments each year through extra sessions.

Increase defence and intelligence spending to around 2.6 percent of GDP by 2027.

Scrap the Universal Credit two-child limit from April 2026.

Maintain income tax and NIC thresholds from 2028 to 2031.

Charge NICs on pension salary-sacrifice contributions above GBP 2,000 from 2029.

Apply a per-mile charge to electric and plug-in hybrid cars from April 2028.