Manifesto 1.0

30 policies.

The headline commitments in one place.

02. 16-Hour Contribution Guarantee

People capable of work normally average 16 hours a week in work, education, training or approved participation.

04. Progressive Income Tax

Marginal rates of 33%, 40%, 45%, 47.5% and 49%.

05. Reform the Personal Allowance

The allowance progressively falls as the USI rises.

11. One Million Social Homes

100,000 new social homes a year for ten years.

12. Planning Reform

A national housing and infrastructure test and stronger central intervention.

13. Private Housebuilding Incentives

Make building homes financially attractive through targeted incentives.

14. Pragmatic Net Zero

Decarbonisation remains a long-term ambition, guided by affordability, security and competitiveness.

15. Nuclear Britain

Major investment in nuclear, SMRs, research and grid resilience.

16. Domestic Energy Security

Continue developing North Sea oil and gas where appropriate.

17. Social Energy Tariff

Targeted energy support for lower-income households.

18. Abolish Energy Standing Charges

Recover legitimate domestic network and administration costs through unit pricing.

19. Regional Investment Fund

£20bn annual target weighted towards deprivation, productivity and infrastructure need.

20. Defence at 5% of GDP

Progressively raise defence spending to 5% of GDP within five years.

21. 21-Year Guarantee

Every young person remains in education, training, employment, apprenticeship or military service until 21.

22. 18–21 Military Route

A three-year Armed Forces route offering salary, training and transferable skills.

23. Technology Investment Fund

Large-scale public funding for AI, robotics, biotech, fusion, quantum, space and advanced manufacturing.

24. Four-Day Working Model

Move towards approximately 32 hours/four days where appropriate.

25. 24/7 Public Services

Government services increasingly operate seven days a week.

26. Weekend Banking

Modernise payments so salaries and government/business payments can be credited at weekends.

27. Work & Independence Programme

Enhanced support, retraining, workplace adaptation and incentives for returning to work.

28. Reformed Capability Assessments

Assess functional capability and realistic work capacity rather than diagnosis alone.

29. Compulsory Workplace Pensions

Every worker has a portable workplace pension.

30. £18,000 State Pension Safety Net

Long-term state pension target of £18,000, with private pension income taken into account.

Additional policies: regulated recreational cannabis legalisation with taxation at consumer, supplier and wholesale levels; and a traffic-light food system with higher taxation of unhealthy foods used to subsidise healthier fresh foods at point of sale.
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