Top priorities
• Provide economic stability with clear rules on tax and spending, including no increases to existing income tax rates, National Insurance or VAT
• Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments a week by paying staff more to work weekends and evenings
• Create a Border Security Command with counter-terror style powers to stop trafficking gangs and people smuggling
• Set up Great British Energy, a publicly owned clean energy firm, to create jobs, cut bills and invest in clean energy
• Tackle antisocial behaviour with 13,000 more police and community support officers on the beat in England and Wales
• Recruit 6,500 more teachers and introduce free breakfast clubs at every primary school in England
Economy
• Provide economic stability with clear rules on tax and spending policies and more independent oversight
• Cap corporation tax at its current level of 25%, replace the business rates system and publish a roadmap setting out future business taxes
• Boost growth by reforming the planning system to allow more housebuilding and infrastructure projects
• Set up Great British Energy and a National Wealth Fund to invest in clean energy industries and create 650,000 jobs
• Draw up an industrial strategy focused on the UK’s strengths
• Reform employment support, including by bringing Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service together, to help people get into work
Cost of living
• Pledge not to increase existing income tax rates, National Insurance or VAT
• Cut energy bills with a National Warm Homes Plan to upgrade five million homes in five years and by generating more clean energy
• Turn the minimum wage into a real living wage that takes the cost of living into account, and scrap age bands for adults
• Ban “exploitative” zero-hours contracts and the practice of “fire and rehire”, and give workers more rights from the first day in a job
• Protect the state pension triple lock so it rises in line with inflation, wages or 2.5% - whichever is highest
• Expand childcare with 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries and free breakfast clubs at every primary school in England
NHS & care
• Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments a week by paying staff more to work weekends and evenings
• Expand the NHS workforce with thousands more medical training places and modernise hospital equipment to catch cancer and other conditions earlier
• Guarantee a face-to-face GP appointment by training more GPs, and modernise the appointment booking system “to end the 8am scramble”
• Provide 700,000 more NHS dentistry appointments a year and supervised toothbrushing for three to five-year-olds
• Recruit 8,500 more mental health staff
• Begin to create a National Care Service to set minimum standards for social care, and reach a collective agreement on pay and conditions for carers
Immigration
• Create a Border Security Command with counter-terror style powers to stop trafficking gangs and people smuggling
• Cancel asylum seeker flights to Rwanda and hire new investigators, intelligence officers and cross-border police officers
• Set up a 1,000-person returns unit to remove failed asylum seekers quickly, and clear the backlog and end asylum hotels
• Work internationally to address crises leading people to flee their homes and help refugees in their home regions
• Reform the points-based immigration system and ban employers who break employment laws hiring foreign workers
• Reduce net migration with workforce and training plans to end the long-term reliance on overseas workers in sectors such as health and construction
Housing
• Reform the planning system and reinstate local targets to help build 1.5 million new homes over five years
• Build a new generation of new towns, fast track the approval of brownfield sites and release some “low quality” green belt for housing
• Prioritise the building of social rented homes and give first-time buyers the chance to buy homes in new developments before investors
• Introduce a permanent mortgage guarantee scheme to help first-time buyers
• Make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to extend leases and ban new leasehold flats, while tackling unregulated ground rent charges
• Ban so-called no-fault evictions and empower renters to challenge rent rises
Environment
• Set up the publicly owned Great British Energy, and invest in clean energy – almost all of the country’s electricity to be UK-generated and zero carbon by 2030
• Upgrade the National Grid and reform planning to speed up clean energy projects
• Make sure local communities benefit directly from hosting clean energy infrastructure
• Refuse to issue licences to explore new North Sea oil and gas fields or new coal licences, while retaining existing licences, and ban fracking completely
• End sales of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 and speed up the roll out of electric vehicle charging points
• Make polluting water firms clean up rivers and seas and give the regulator powers to block bonuses for company bosses
Education
• Recruit 6,500 more teachers in key subjects funded by ending tax breaks for private schools, and employ mental health support staff and careers advisers in every school
• Set minimum qualification levels for teachers and review bursaries and other payments to improve staff retention
• Reform Ofsted, with schools getting report cards instead of headline grades
• Improve maths teaching across nurseries and primary schools
• Review the curriculum to make it broader and give children more opportunities to study music, sport and the arts
• Turn further education colleges into Technical Excellence Colleges and improve apprenticeships to boost skills
Foreign & defence
• Remain committed to Nato and to the UK’s nuclear deterrent
• Conduct a full review into global threats and the state of the armed forces within 12 months, and set out a path to raise defence spending to 2.5% of national income
• Improve service accommodation and establish an armed forces commissioner to improve service life
• Seek a new UK-EU security pact and improve trading with the bloc, while staying outside the customs union and single market and not reintroducing freedom of movement
• Provide Ukraine with the support it needs following Russia’s invasion
• Push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages and unimpeded aid access to Gaza
Crime & justice
• Put 13,000 more neighbourhood police and community support officers on the beat in England and Wales
• Tackle antisocial behaviour with new Respect Orders - powers to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres
• Build new prison places to end early releases due to overcrowding and improve co-ordination between services to cut reoffending rates
• Put special rape units in every police force and fast-track rape cases with specialist courts
• Tackle shoplifting gangs by allowing police to investigate thefts below £200
• Crack down on knife crime, including tougher sanctions for possession and sale of machetes, zombie knives and swords
Transport
• Set up Great British Rail to nationalise passenger railways as private company contracts expire
• Create a new rail passenger watchdog to improve standards
• Let local authorities take control of bus networks and remove the ban on publicly owned bus services
• Give mayors powers to create more integrated transport systems and to promote active travel networks
•Fix an extra million potholes in England every year and take action to reduce the cost of car insurance
• Promote sustainable aviation fuels to support the UK aviation industry’s future
Democracy
• Change the minimum voting age from 18 to 16 years old in general elections
• Create a new independent Ethics and Integrity Commission so government ministers are held to the highest standards
• Modernise House of Commons procedures and ban MPs from taking second jobs that prevent MPs from serving their constituents or country
• Reform and eventually replace the House of Lords, starting by removing hereditary peers and mandatory retirement for peers over 80 when a parliament ends
• Reset the UK government’s relationship with devolved governments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
• Devolve more powers over transport, skills, employment support, housing and planning to local councils and mayors
Source: Labour manifesto
