Manifesto 1.1

Policy index.

The headline commitments in one place, aligned with the Manifesto 1.1 working master and linked as detailed proposals are released. Policies 11 and 13 link to one consolidated housing programme. Policy numbers remain separate from public-release proposal numbers.

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.

12. Planning Reform

A national housing and infrastructure test and stronger central intervention.

Day 11 · Proposal 10. End Planning Paralysis, with a continuing local role and enforceable infrastructure, design and environmental standards.

13. Private Housebuilding Incentives

Conditional incentives for verified additional homes, with measurable delivery conditions and clawback.

Consolidated into Day 10 · Revised Proposal 09, alongside policy 11—not a separate additional housing target.

15. Nuclear Britain

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

Day 13 · Proposal 12. Expand nuclear power, SMRs, research, grid resilience and fuel security.

16. Domestic Energy Security

Continue developing North Sea oil and gas where appropriate.

17. Social Energy Tariff

Targeted energy support for lower-income households.

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.

23. Young Person’s Bursary

Every 18–21-year-old in approved education or training receives a government bursary.

Day 21 · Proposal 20. Supports study, skills and opportunity within the wider 21-Year Guarantee.

24. Technology Investment Fund

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

25. Four-Day Working Model

Move towards approximately 32 hours/four days where appropriate.

26. 24/7 Public Services

Government services increasingly operate seven days a week.

27. Weekend Banking

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

28. Work & Independence Programme

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

29. Reformed Capability Assessments

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

30. Hardship Protection

Emergency support protects people in genuine hardship without rewarding refusal to participate.

31. Compulsory Workplace Pensions

Every worker has a portable workplace pension.

32. £18,000 State Pension Safety Net

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

33. Bring Britain’s Water Companies into Public Ownership

Bring major water companies into public ownership, with excess operating profits reinvested in pipes, sewage infrastructure, leakage reduction, water treatment and environmental resilience.

34. New Prisons

Build three rehabilitation-focused super-prisons, providing approximately 15,000 additional places in total.

35. Courts

Establish 125 additional magistrates’ courts and 30 additional Crown Courts to reduce backlogs and waiting times.

36. Small Boats and Illegal Immigration

Secure the border through registration, health and security checks, detention, a functioning asylum process and lawful removal following rejected claims.

37. Immigration Detention Capacity

Rapidly expand secure detention capacity through tightly regulated government contracts, while keeping asylum decisions under government control.

38. Growth Is the Central Objective

Link higher living standards and the expansion of USI to measurable employment, investment, productivity and economic growth rather than spending anticipated growth in advance.

39. Legalise and Regulate Recreational Cannabis

Create an adult-only regulated market with licensing, product standards, public-health safeguards and taxation at wholesale, producer and retail levels.

40. Traffic-Light Taxation of Food

Introduce a mandatory Green, Amber and Red nutritional classification for qualifying food products sold in the UK.

41. Higher Taxation of Unhealthy Food

Apply higher VAT or a supplementary food tax to qualifying Red and Amber foods to improve the relative affordability of healthier choices.

42. Subsidise Healthy Food at the Point of Sale

Use food-tax revenue to reduce the purchase price of fruit, vegetables and other foods meeting defined healthy-food criteria.

43. Food Taxation and Revenue Neutrality

Place relevant receipts into a Healthy Food Fund supporting subsidies, education, school food, public health and access in deprived communities.

44. Food Manufacturers and Reformulation

Use traffic-light classification and taxation to reward manufacturers that improve products and qualify for healthier classifications.

Read the evolution to Manifesto 1.1 · Historical record: withdrawn Proposal 09