Spotlight Manifesto Consultation.

With May elections looming and Your Party struggling to get off the starting block, I’ve been considering what what Spotlight could do to help get things back on track for the left. The first thing I know we can do is to help put together a socialist manifesto – a list of policies that the left can unite around. Having our own socialist manifesto makes it easier on Your Party proto-branches, who might be considering who they’re going to endorse for the upcoming local elections, as it allows them to select candidates who more closely align with their values.

I’ve already made a start and pooled together policy ideas from various left sources, including the All-London Delegate Assembly 12 point Manifesto, The Labour Party 2019 Manifesto, and various contributions from comrades in the Spotlight Your Party Network WhatsApp group. I’m now inviting comrades to provide feedback. Join the debate in the Spotlight Your Party Network WhatsApp group – https://chat.whatsapp.com/L4EG4xsrfJaIIGOBx2uWrt – to propose changes, expand on what we already have and/or suggest any new policy ideas we may have missed.

SPOTLIGHT MANIFESTO (FIRST DRAFT)

**This is a live consult. All areas high lighted in red are under consideration**

Defence, Policing & Security

• We propose an immediate freeze on defence spending at current levels, pending a combined services review with the aim of moving away from a NATO aligned power projection force and instigating a self-defence force posture, redirecting funds to supporting public services (like Health, housing, education, and environment) and growth in a greener economy so we can reduce our reliance of oil & gas, which, ironically, is what most wars are fought over. Defence spending has increased by £2 billion for the 2025/26 financial year (up from £60.2 billion in 2024/25 to £62.2 billion) and is expected to increase to £73.5 billion by 2028/29. This is mostly for “investment spending” (equipment, vehicles and weapons, as opposed to day-to-day running and maintenance). This suggests a trajectory toward greater militarisation and greater reliance on the arms industry and arms trade for economic growth.
• Prevent British involvement in wars by introducing a War Powers Act to ensure that no government can bypass parliament to commit to conventional military action. Add new constitutional legislation binding all decisions on Defence, military action and foreign policy to be made in future solely through full consultation with the House of Commons. Introduce a complete arms embargo on all countries guilty of wars of aggression, other war crimes, or human rights abuses, and end all military cooperation with such countries.
• Military action should be a last resort and reserved for defensive purposes, and we should associate and cooperate with campaigns and other organisations that share these aims (e.g. CND).
• We will revoke all agreements that require the UK to host foreign military bases on UK soil and UK territories, and the UK will no longer operate British Military bases overseas, including on UK territories.
• Ditch digital surveillance – Reverse all development of ID cards and facial recognition. No to state monitoring of ordinary people, online and offline, simply for holding legitimate political views that they don’t agree with. Enact constitutional legislation to restrict all state monitoring of ordinary people for our political views, to specified categories of crime prevention, which shall be reviewed every 3 years.
• Legislate to protect free speech and our human right to peaceful protest, and to stop police abuse of powers.
• Legislate, enacting statutory guidance and an enforceable public duty setting out strict limits for spending of public money on UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Exports to promote and sell wares from the global arms trade to purchasers including public money spent on hosting global arms fairs. Redirect investment into renewable energy and social security spending that makes us truly secure from the effects of climate change and the effects of global capitalism.
• Revise guidance for the police on Stop and Search, so that it can only be deployed when credible intelligence is verified by a senior officer above the rank of Sergeant. Set up external monitoring to check this guidance is catching a higher % of criminals, without targeting BAME people.
• Review the circumstances requiring judicial warrants. A judicial warrant in the UK is a legal document issued by a magistrate, judge, or Judicial Commissioner, authorizing law enforcement to take specific actions that would otherwise violate privacy, such as conducting arrests, searching premises, or seizing evidence.
• The UK’s Prevent strategy faces significant criticism for being disproportionately focused on Muslim communities, fostering mistrust, and infringing upon human rights. Critics argue it promotes Islamophobia, creates a “suspect community,” and is ineffective due to a lack of evidence-based indicators for radicalisation, leading to high rates of unfounded referrals. We will end the Prevent programme.
• Overhaul cybersecurity by creating a co-ordinating minister and regular reviews of cyber-readiness, and review role and remit of the National Cyber Security Centre to determine whether it should be given powers as an auditing body.
• Review structures and roles of the National Crime Agency. The primary role of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has been to lead the UK’s fight against serious and organised crime, protecting the public by targeting criminals who pose the highest risk. It operates as an intelligence-led agency, focusing on disrupting transnational, national, and regional criminal networks.
• Bring PFI prisons back in-house and no new private prisons. To avoid legal risk, enormous costs, market instability and service disruptions that would result when cancelling PFI contracts outright, we propose a managed phase out. This would entail 1) No new PFIs issued 2) renegotiate the worst contracts, 3) buy out selected contracts where savings are clear and 4) Develop skills within the public sector, manage remaining contracts, and prepare to manage taking over of assets.
• Reunify probation and guarantee a publicly run, locally accountable probation service.
• Recruit hundreds of new community lawyers, promote public legal education and build an expanded network of law centres.
• Ensure legal aid for inquests into deaths in state custody and the preparation of judicial review cases.
• Establish public inquiries into historical injustices including blacklisting and Orgreave and outstanding issues raised by communities in North of Ireland arising from its occupation by armed forces of the British state.
• Require judicial warrants for undercover operations and retain the Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing.
• Enforce a legal duty of care to protect our children online, impose fines on companies that fail on online abuse and empower the public with a Charter of Digital Rights. Review and monitor the extent to which both online and offline abuse of children and young people has been used by the mass media, political organisation, government and civil service officials to produce and communicate racialised narratives about Muslim and other groups.
• British nuclear test veterans and their families, who allege severe health issues from 1950s radiation exposure have still not been provided specific dedicated compensation. Pay a lump sum of £50,000 to each surviving British nuclear-test veteran.
• The 2016 Chilcot Inquiry found that the UK’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was not a last resort, as peaceful options were not exhausted, and was based on flawed intelligence. Led by Sir John Chilcot, the report concluded that Tony Blair overestimated his influence on US policy, planning was inadequate, and the invasion and subsequent occupation went “badly wrong,” resulting in at least 150,000 Iraqi deaths and a “humiliating” troop withdrawal. We commit to implementing every single recommendation of the Chilcot Inquiry.
• Abolish the police & replace “policing” with an array of specialised multidisciplinary services, with an emphasis on prevention of criminality similar to that found within public health, on the scientific understanding that almost all violent crime is caused by deprivation and exclusion. We propose replacing the current system with multiple specialist services that deal with different kinds of crime, divided into two discrete groups. The first is “immediate response” to deal with domestic incidents, minor theft cases etc. The second group is “long-term response” to deal with things like organised crime. The long-term response service would also be deeply interconnected with other services focused on prevention through education & recommendations to government (Re. prevention of exclusion & deprivation). While replicating some of the work of the police, it also fundamentally alters the nature of policing as a public service.

Palestine

• Zionism, as a political ideology, is incompatible with our commitment to universal human rights. We acknowledge, unequivocally, that Zionism is racism and pledge to confront it without exception. We recognises the difference between Zionism and Judaism. We recognise that not every Jew is a Zionist and not every Zionist is Jewish. We understand that Zionism is an ethnonationalist ideology that asserts the rights of one specific religious group, over others, through exclusive political domination, subjugation and occupation, of land and people, and we recognise that this is racial discrimination.
• Immediately reverse the proscription of Palestine Action, apologise for the horrendous treatment of activists who had been jailed without charge, abused while in jail and had their human rights violated, and pay them reparations.
• We will end all trade and diplomatic ties to Israel until they accept a single state solution that meets the approval of the people of Palestine. Israel is an occupation force, they occupy Palestinian land. Palestinians have a right to return to their land. In fact there’s a UN General Assembly Resolution (Resolution 194), passed on 11 December 1948, that recognises the Palestinians right of return to their homes. Article 11 of the resolution reads: “[The General Assembly] Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.” This simple fact – the right of return that Palestinians demand – should make it clear to anyone that they do not favour a two state solution, which has always been an unreachable and unwelcome compromise, dangled as a carrot, by the occupier (and their allies). Palestinians should never have been put in a position where they were forced to negotiate their return to their homes and homelands with their occupiers.
• We will require all government Pension funds, councils and publicly owned bodies to boycott and divest from Israeli products and Israeli owned companies and also divest from any investment funds which are themselves investing in Israeli products and companies.
• Your Party believes that it’s for Palestinians to decide what a free Palestine should look like.
• Any British citizen who has chosen to travel abroad to go fight for the IDF will be immediately detained on their return and investigated for charges under the terrorism act UK and, if found guilty of engaging in, or being complicit in, human rights abuses, terrorist activities and/or genocide, will be given lengthy custodial sentences.
• Proscription is a tool of the state to stifle political debate and crush dissent. It has also been heavily abused by the state recently, who have used it to arrest innocent protestors simply for holding placards supporting groups advocating for freedom from occupation or against illegal wars and genocide – all points that happen to be mainstream views. Furthermore, proscription is an ineffective tool and counterproductive for tackling extremism, as extremists tend to go underground and off radar when proscribed. We will legislate to remove proscription.
• Israel is a settler colonial state, like Algeria, Zimbabwe, Australia, South Africa & Northern Ireland. We believe colonialism is reprehensible and that it is time to end Israel’s subjugation, abuse, disenfranchisement, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people. We believe it Is time to end the occupation of Palestine. To help facilitate this process, we will withdraw our support for the Balfour Declaration and, instead, declare our support for a new declaration – one that sees Israel as an illegitimate occupation force.

Taxes & Economics

• Introduce emergency legislation to stop the flight of capital by nationalising banks
• Dismantle all British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies acting as secret tax havens. Place an obligation on the City of London and Companies House to divulge full details of all such accounts. Introduce a new Wealth Tax. Ensure all Wealth Tax bands and rates are under regular review so they adapt with changes in world prices, as well as the impact of currency speculation and capital exodus, etc
• As all land is a natural resource and all land has a locational value. Currently it’s landlords who pocket all the locational value. We will replace the existing Council tax system, which is currently based on outdated property values, and replace it with an annual tax on land values.
• Review tax and pension changes implemented by the Tory government
• Introduce a windfall tax on oil companies
• Tax multinationals, including tech giants.
• Boycott corporate tax evaders and unscrupulous for-profit public service providers e.g. Virgin Care, Serco, G4S
• Undertake a review of the financial system to allow a reframing of how we view national and local authority public debt – Quantitative Easing for people and not just the banks – allow money creation for UK infrastructure projects.
• Restructure all taxation relating to oil & gas, placing all tax burden on a) import, b) production, and removing all tax burden from endpoints. Implement a carbon tax on production (refining) + imports commensurate with the environmental hazard, to be increased steadily in coming years to help ensure a steady shift away from the carbonised economy. Ensure initial take from the carbon tax at least matches the current tax from the preexisting fuel tax ecosystem
• We will introduce an Industry wide Automation Tax to generate revenue from developing software and future technologies.
• Restore government funding to Councils, but cease government funding to Councils on party lines – a system that undermines the fairness and efficiency of local public services, causes inequity in service provision, erosion of public trust, inequity in service provision, and increased financial instability for local authorities. Local authorities to be well funded by central government to so that they are able to provide the high quality services that we all need in our communities. Well-funded councils will provide services by being able to employ people to provide services on secure, decent, well-paid contracts so that they are valued, recognised and well-rewarded for the important work they do.
• Local authority budgeting to be solely on the basis of identifying and meeting need. This is to be achieved by exposing the lies that there is no money, there are legal constraints and that there is no other choice. Needs budget to be drawn up and implemented using reserves, prudential borrowing, diverting the hundreds of millions given to developers and so-called care providers (ending privatisation) and joining with campaigns around the country demanding the return to local government of the tens of billions drained from public services.

Public Ownership & Job Creation

• We will bring energy back under public ownership and community control (this would cost roughly £2.8 billion so we can fund this by scrapping trident which costs roughly £3 billion).
• Move to net zero by massively expanding all forms of renewable power generation and generate jobs through public ownership of utilities, transport, and key infrastructure, reinvesting profits into further expansion to create more jobs and improve services. Investment in skills, green manufacturing and green energy, like solar, wind farms and tidal energy, which will also create more well-paid jobs..
• We will end cronyism by ending outsourcing of government contracts to profiteering private companies. Instead we will bring vital production lines in-house (including PPE, drugs, medical equipment), to create jobs and keep production costs down.
• Make all bus rides free. Expropriate the bus firms, place them under workers’ control. Improve bus links to hospitals. In London, we propose to equalise drivers’ pay with tube workers’ pay.
• Take ownership of water companies and tax big corporations heavily for polluting our water ways.
• Bring construction apprentice schemes under trade union control, and nationalise the big construction monopolies under workers’ control.
• Make bursaries available to women, BAME people, care leavers, ex-armed forces personnel and people with disabilities to encourage them to take up climate apprenticeships.
• As part of the program to improve the National Health Service, we will establish a generic drug company and aim to increase pharmaceutical jobs in the UK. We will also seek to form an International Health Alliance with other publicly funded or socialised healthcare systems worldwide. That Alliance will, in collaboration, form an international generics drug supply chain which will support the IHA (and NHS), as well as boost pharmaceutical jobs in the UK. The new IHA will negotiate with pharmaceutical companies as a single purchasing body, strengthening the bargaining power of the NHS and all member health services. The Alliance will also provide a means for leverage against intransigent companies refusing to negotiate lower prices.

Workers’ Rights

• Repeal all of the anti-trade union legislation
• Move from ‘reasonable adjustments’ to ‘necessary requirements’ for disabled employees
• Reverse cuts to Access to Work and supported employment schemes. Increase uptake and increase availability without the use of punitive sanctions.
• Have policy making for support at work for disabled people led and shaped by disabled people not by government and big business leaders as in the recent Mayfield review.
• Deliver year-on-year above-inflation pay rises for public sector jobs.
• Review the operation of Employment Tribunal’s and the Advice and Conciliation Service up until these were disestablished by government. Following consultation with Employment Lawyers, rank and file trade unionists and small Employers’ organisations, devise recommendations for fresh legislation to give workers back legal redress for every category of dismissal, disciplinary action and discrimination. Enhance this compared to before, to include an additional Panel member making the assessment and decision on cases, who is a peer worker for the claimant, together with a representative of organised workers (who is not a paid official), a representative of small Employers and a Solicitor with expertise in Employment and Discrimination Law.
• We support workers’ right to education and retraining (with specific protections for single parents). We will replace punitive welfare-to-work requirements with a right to education, recognising learning as socially productive labour. We will ensure single parents can undertake full-time education or retraining without being required to abandon courses for immediate employment. We will maintain access to benefits during study and remove sanctions linked to education participation. We will provide fully funded childcare for single parents in education or in training. We will fund all essential study costs for single parents, including course materials, travel to and from the place of study, and a daily meal for those enrolled in full-time education. We will expand flexible and part-time learning options to accommodate caring responsibilities, and we will support pathways into secure, well-paid sectors through voluntary, not compulsory, guidance.

Housing

• Circulate the labour 2019 manifesto pledge of nationalising housing and ending rough sleeping, as part of a Public Consultation to review Housing legislation and regulations. Devise an overall strategy based on this consultation, to introduce new legislation and binding regulations. Carry out a survey of unoccupied housing, focusing on its quality of build, geographical distribution, ownership and tenure, ecological sustainability, accessibility and suitability for different housing needs. Carry out whatever improvements are feasible for these dwellings and devise a framework for making necessary and fair changes in their existing ownership.
• Initiate a large scale programme of requisition of industry and land, in order to enable a decade-long programme of social housing construction with a target of 150,000 new builds per year. In planning this, consult with architects who have designed ecologically sustainable and fully accessible housing, and organise a competition for the best, fully costed, designs to meet the full range of differing housing needs.
• Carry out a widespread consultation with Housing Charities & campaigning groups, and with groups and organisations representing private renters, and base legislation on recommendations arising from this, covering the right to buy, evictions, the appropriate levels of council rents, the role of Housing Associations, improving tenancy rights & tenants’ autonomous organisations, fair waiting lists, and measures to ensure that all social housing remains within public ownership in perpetuity, whilst introducing measures to ensure such housing is under the direct control of tenants and building workers.
• Expand the direct labour organisation (Council-run construction and maintenance department) to the level appropriate to the overall housing strategy, ensuring decent conditions of work, training opportunities, and full trade union rights for the workforce.
• Review commissioning of adequate supported housing provision for disabled people, domestic abuse victims and for people with mental health problems, under a new supported housing regulator and register.
• New minimum accessibility standards for new builds and public buildings – legal requirements of accessibility to public buildings and incentives for private sector.
• Undertake a full review of building safety regulations, commission an overhaul of all publicly owned properties to ensure they meet safety and accessibility standards, and legislate to ensure all private landlords also make the required changes to bring their properties up to the latest safety standards.
• We will support, and help to roll out nationally, successful local initiatives working to eradicate homelessness by providing homeless people with access to food, homes, education, retraining and jobs.
• We think it’s important that local people have a real say in (and involvement in) the design, production and maintenance of their neighbourhoods. We would support local people wanting to organise and take on land, create visions and build social housing estates, with profits folded back into providing community facilities or services (projects like Civic Square in Birmingham, Lilac in Leeds, Knowle West in Bristol, Octopus in Plymouth, Granby Four Streets in Liverpool and many others). We will, therefore, support local initiatives by non-profit community-led organisations working to provide social housing connected with local wellbeing services & regeneration initiatives.
• Homelessness has a significant impact on autistic people, people with learning disabilities, and others with neurodivergent conditions or complex support needs. It can result in unnecessary hospitalisation and reduced quality of life. We commit to a national programme to provide access to safe, appropriate, high-quality, community-based supported housing (close to an individuals’ home community wherever possible, so we maintain access to family, friends, and existing support networks), that would enable Neurodivergent People and People with Learning Disabilities to live independently with appropriate levels of support. We will also take a needs-based approach to access, rather than making it contingent on formal diagnosis, as we recognise that there are barriers to diagnosis and delays within existing systems, and we also recognise the need to prioritise access for people currently placed in inappropriate accommodation, such as mental health and inpatient settings. We also commit to ensuring that community based support is trauma-informed and person-centred and includes health and social care services, including mental health care, daily living assistance, and community inclusion.
• We will overturn the criminalisation of squatting and remove the civil procedures for evicting squatters from commercial property. We will replace this with a community-led registration of possession which brings together the local community, the local housing dept, the previous owner and the squatters to determine the future use of the property. Future use will be determined, on a case by case basis, by clear parameters such as local needs, the wishes of the local community, the housing needs of the squatters and of the local community and the previous owner’s plans for the property. Alternative suitable accommodation must be provided for the squatters in the event they are not granted continued use. Where they are successful, the owner will be compensated, and compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including market value, the wealth and means of the property owner, the funds available to the local housing dept to convert/make safe the property before it can be put to community use.
• We will end the Bedroom Tax.

Health & Welfare

• Return to full public ownership and properly fund the NHS. Bring GP, Dental and Opthalmic services and the care sector under the same umbrella.
• We will phase out PFI contracts. To avoid legal risk, enormous costs, market instability and service disruptions that would result when cancelling PFI contracts outright, we propose a managed phase out. This would entail 1) No new PFIs issued 2) renegotiate the worst contracts, 3) buy out selected contracts where savings are clear and 4) Develop skills within the public sector, manage remaining contracts, and prepare to manage taking over of assets.
• Carer’s allowance should not end when a parent or carer reaches retirement age. It should be non means tested and should not be counted against other benefits. We will repeal overlapping benefit legislation to facilitate Carers Allowance being paid alongside State Pension as part of more comprehensive benefit reform.
• Make accessibility and inclusivity for disabled people a legal requirement for larger companies and support smaller businesses to make changes through a government funded initiative.
• We will commit to infrastructure improvements and legislation to make our public spaces more accessible for the disabled. This will include more accessible public transport (including levelling train platforms) so people don’t have to book special help to bring ramps to get wheelchairs and scooters onto trains, public toilets with disabled access and drinking taps and fountains, in parks and public spaces, will be a legal requirement for local councils. ‘No Pavement Parking’ will be strictly enforced, and we will implement measures to reduce sensory overload within public spaces etc. This includes making public spaces fragrance-free. Many fragrances are carcinogenic and have negative consequences for allergy sufferers.
• No more car-parking charges in hospitals (for both patients and staff) and, where needed, invest in expanding parking facilities.
• As well as providing free bus services with improved links to hospitals, we will provide additional support for people who are not able bodied and are therefore unable to use the bus service. We propose offering a subsidised Taxi service that can collect patients from home, drop them at the hospital entrance and then collect them from the entrance and return them back home. This would be an alternative to the traditional inhouse service that would require investment in a fleet of vehicles that need to be maintained and insured, and replaced every few years (plus the added cost of hiring drivers). Also, with an inhouse service there’s the question of availability and having to pre-book whereas, with a taxi, you can call them up the same day (no pre-booking required).
• Get rid of Universal Credit and let’s have a proper review of the benefits system so we can prioritise a person’s need over cost cutting measures.
• The Work Capability Assessment should be abolished and we should go back to GP and hospital consultants’ assessment of illness and disability.
• Introduce ‘Right to food’, a publicly funded food system, grounded in living wages and social security, and democratic food governance, that ensures universal free school meals, free nutritious foods delivered to elderly, fair pay for community food workers, open access to emergency food, and community control over food environments and public land so that food justice, based on care, replaces reliance on charity and multinational food corporates who make our communities sick.
• Make women’s sanitary products free.
• Free abortion and contraception on demand.
• Boost funds, expertise and resources to make free gender-affirming healthcare more accessible.
• We will significantly increase funding for mental health services, which has been overlooked for too long. We will improve access to, and significantly reduce waiting times for, mental health diagnostic capabilities and service provisions, across the UK, and we will place greater focus on the effective treatment of trauma, which will also reduce the need to keep people on medication for extended periods of time.
• Overhaul of the pharmaceutical sector to lower costs, establish a state-owned generic drugs company to manufacturer to produce generic, affordable versions of essential, high-cost medicines and the use of Crown Use licensing to override patents on high-priced medicines and allow the production of cheaper generic alternatives if companies refuse to set fair prices.
• Abolish all prescription charges in England.
• Roll out pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to prevent HIV.
• Resisting patent extensions and changing the incentives to ensure public research funding benefits public health, with urgent attention given to chronic syndromes and under researched conditions, rather than just private profit.
• Create a National Care Service and completion of a full review and recommendations for long-term sustainable funding of the care sector. This should be led by workers, service users and their relatives / carers to improve the outcomes of meeting individual support needs, independent living, community integration and equality of rights and opportunity for disabled and elderly people and based on the social model of disability not purely medical and health based.
• Set up a task forces led by disabled people and minorities themselves to address health inequalities between the general population and these groups.
• Reverse the discriminatory earned settlement proceedings and access to essential benefits being linked to immigration status.
• More safe legal routes to claim asylum – abolish the harmful and ineffective ‘one in one out’ policy – reverse the expansion of harsh detention conditions and increased sanctions to asylum seekers – allow them support to work and live on a living wage.
• Negotiate a controlled disengagement from Palantir and similar, intrusive, software applications that have been introduced to the NHS but have failed to reach significant take up, due to trust issue.
• We will introduce a Universal Basic Income, and Universal Basic Services.
• We will support community growing projects and free community cooking classes across the country. We will create allotments on brown belt land, provide seeds and access to gardening tools. We will also set up a mentoring programme so that communities can learn how to grow and cook their own fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as spend more time outdoors and be more physically active.
• We support statutory menstrual and reproductive health leave. We recognise the impact of menstrual and reproductive health conditions, such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and PMDD on an individuals’ ability to work, and we will legislate to ensure those affected are supported to remain in employment without penalty. We will develop a policy in consultation with people directly affected, workers, and relevant organisations such as Endometriosis UK, IAPMD UK and trade unions, to ensure our plan will be shaped by lived experience whilst also delivering as a universal public right. Any employee who provides appropriate medical certification should be able to access leave without unnecessary barriers with guaranteed full pay. Leave granted under such conditions will not count towards sickness absence, or offer grounds for disciplinary procedures, and employers will be required to provide reasonable adjustments, including flexible working where possible. We will also support improved access to diagnosis and treatment through investment in NHS services.
• We will set up an Independent National Benefits Advisory Service (INBAS) to assist benefit claimants. This will be an independent team of expert legal advisors, trained to offer advice and support to individuals and families needing to claim benefits from the DWP. They will assess a claimant’s needs and qualifications, before advising them of which benefits they’re eligible for. They will also be able to assist claimants with making their claims and intervene where they feel the DWP has made the wrong decision on a claim. INBAS will be totally independent of the DWP and will provide free legal support to claimants if the dispute is referred to The Tribunal Service. INBAS will have a team of professionally qualified benefit advisers specifically to support all PIP claimants to make their initial claim and provide further support to appeal negative decisions to include representation at HMCTS where appropriate. The INBAS service will have an outreach arm that can also support PIP claimants who are unable to attend in person, either through an online service or through home visits.
• Set up and properly fund a task force, led by female medical researchers and medical professionals, to address the health care inequalities between men and women.
• We will end the involvement of private contractors in the PIP application/assessment process, and in any other benefit system that we hope to introduce to replace the current system, following a full independent review (including the qualifying criteria, assessment process, and administration). This review will be conducted by qualified medical, care and legal professionals and will also include disabled representatives. Ultimately, our objective will be to provide non means-tested financial support to all people with disabilities to enable independent living with a good quality of life. Whether we choose to modify the current system or introduce something new, independence payments will be rated after inflation has been taken into account. Assessments will be carried out by people who know the claimant and their condition, such as their GP and, where appropriate, specialist doctors who understand the needs of a patient with a specific condition and how that will impact their lives. Under no circumstances should medical professionals be under any pressure, or incentivised, to fail people. As well as medical requirements, assessors will be asked to consider a person’s social needs, and consult with disability groups. If we choose to keep but update the current PIP system, we would start by reversing the recent changes to PIP. We will then conduct a thorough review of the application process to make it simpler and easier for people to apply. Again, we will prioritise a person’s need over any cost cutting objectives. We will also put an end to the abusive and degrading behaviour of some PIP assessors, as well as their misrepresentation of a claimant’s capacity to work and perform everyday functions. Disability payments are awarded where claimants have additional costs due to the nature of their disability and where they need help in order to facilitate independent living. All allegations of abuse or degrading behaviour by PIP assessors will be investigated thoroughly and may result in legal action being taken against them. Additionally, successful claimants should not be required to endure constant monitoring of their monthly expenditures. We will commit to an annual medical review for any claimant whose condition is expected to change over time, unless otherwise prompted as a result of a change of circumstances by the claimant, or a medical professional. We will also commit to bridging the gap between needs and funding and we’ll direct those funds to where it can make the most difference in people’s lives, including on disability-related expenses (DRE), rather than spending money on more administration staff to run care charging systems. We will also aim to facilitate a road map to fully independent living, as outlined by disability groups, by making direct payments to claimants so they can use the funds to better suit their personal needs, rather than maintain the currently inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.

Education & Child Welfare

• We will deliver Education for life. We will also abolish tuition fees and reinstate grants.
• Instead of closing schools and sacking staff, we will cut class sizes and raise school budgets, especially for SEND and SEMH provision. Then we will place them under the control of educators, parents and students.
• Bring Academies back under local authority supervision, with control vested in representatives of parents, students, teachers and the local community.
• All private schools should become part of the publicly-owned educational sector. They should be opened up to students of all backgrounds, irrespective of levels of academic achievement, not those with the deepest pockets. Given the calibre of leaders these schools have produced over recent decades, it’s clear that deep pockets do not instil intelligence or foresight. Similarly all private faith schools and Special Needs schools should be state owned and adhere to a national curriculum, devised by a wide consultation process. We commit to providing more special needs teaching facilities for areas where needs are not currently being met. We will also invest in Pupil Referral Units (PRU) for those pupils who did not get the early years education they needed.
• Youth Clubs can support young people with their aspirations. They provide a safe space where young people can connect with other young people in their community, as well as a place where they can get access to health services, help to develop their aspirations and assistance with finding, and getting organised for, work. We will rebuild, refurbish and open new-build Youth Clubs for every neighbourhood and bring their provision up to date through creative and recreational technology, under the supervision of young people, experts in the development needs of young people, youth workers and community representatives. Create a national college for the training of new youth workers and research into the field and ensure that wage levels reflect the great responsibility involved.
• To break the hold of criminal gangs over young people and stop police harassment of youth, we will legalise recreational drugs under a public monopoly, made safe and regulated by experts in drugs and psychology. We will also deliver healthcare and enhanced mental health support and guidance to vulnerable young people.
• We will introduce legislation to require social media companies to implement changes and added protections for vulnerable children, and young people, by removing algorithms that feed psychologically harmful content. We will clamp down on abusive, racist and misogynistic content creators and will require companies to introduce algorithms that could actually help identify potential groomers. We will also enact legislation setting down statutory guidance for the media on the reporting and coverage of grooming and paedophilia.
• To improve inclusion and accessibility, in addition to raising school budgets (especially for SEND and SEMH provision), we will undertake a review of all educational provision in order to determine how we can include and support neurodiversity at all levels.
• We will consult widely with educational experts, representatives of parents, young people, teachers, including university lecturers, and industry professionals, on the national curriculum and wider activities in schools, colleges and higher and adult education. We will positively promote the rights and inclusion of all groups, as well as the development of curiosity, critical thinking, empathy and mutual respect. We are determined to ensure that children leave school with actual skills and practical knowledge.
• Implement recommendations of the Survivors Trust’s National Inquiry into Childhood Sexual Abuse without delay.
• We will abolish Private Boarding Schools. Typically seen as centres of socialization for the next generation of the political upper class, reproducing an elitist class system, with strong adherence to social roles and rigid gender stratification, they attract families who share a sense of entitlement to social class or hierarchy and power and who value power and hierarchy for the socialization of their children. There are some exceptions of boarding schools that provide schooling for children from remote communities, such as the Hebridean islands, where there are no secondary schools locally. These schools will be publicly owned, they will adhere to the national curriculum and opened up to children from all backgrounds and communities.
• We will introduce a programme that will convert inner city spaces into Urban Food Forests which, asides from helping to address food insecurity more locally, will provide places of enjoyment and learning for young children. These places will offer children the opportunity to learn about nature and how to forage for all manner of edible fruits, nuts, berries and plants. Schools can use these spaces to educate children about vegetable and fruit cultivation, and then inspire children to cultivate their own kitchen gardens at school, or at home.

Central Government restructure

• To restore trust in public life and ensure that MPs devote their time and judgement to the people they represent, we will introduce a strict new regime governing outside work. MPs will be prohibited from holding any paid role that creates a conflict of interest, trades on political access, or undermines the independence of Parliament. Corporate directorships, consultancy work, paid lobbying and other influence‑based roles will be banned outright. Limited professional practice in public‑service fields, such as medicine, teaching, social care or other clearly defined non‑commercial roles, will remain permissible, provided it is transparently declared, tightly regulated and demonstrably compatible with parliamentary duties. We will also introduce a cap on outside earnings, robust disclosure rules and clear enforcement mechanisms, ensuring that no MP can treat elected office as a platform for private enrichment. This approach protects the integrity of Parliament while preserving the expertise, diversity and real‑world experience that a healthy democracy requires.
• We will get rid of the House of Lords and replace it with another elected chamber.
• We will abolish the Monarchy, the Privy Council, Star Chamber, honours system (Order of the Garter) etc and all feudal relics which retain influence over the lives of working class people. This includes a system of land tenure which essentially dates back to 1066 and was based on the Norman invaders taking the land by military force from the Anglo Saxon and indigenous Romano British population. A “Doomsday II” survey will investigate the ownership of all land, followed by a public consultation, ending with recommendations about what changes to implement, the timescales, funding required, and settle whether or not any compensation should be paid.
• We will overhaul the archaic codes of conduct enforced in parliamentary chambers that dictate that MPs can’t accuse other MPs of lying, allow ministers to avoid answering questions and allow nefarious tactics like filibustering to delay or block a vote on a bill.
• We will ban donations from businesses, and lobby groups that serve corporate or foreign interests.
• We will introduce policies to empower the British people, such as proportional representation and candidate selection rules that insist that prospective candidates must reside in a constituency for at least 2yrs before they can put themselves forward. Where a candidate hopes to represent a political party, selection must be determined by local members voting for their candidate, not by the central party apparatus.
• For the people to be sovereign the prerogative power of the crown and the hereditary monarchy must be abolished in favour of a fully representative republican and socialist democracy. We will abolish the entire current Westminster political structure within and under the Crown in Parliament system, and replace it with a democratic republic, with power and sovereignty vested in the people (not the Monarchy, a system based on enshrined privilege, expressed in the power of the crown prerogative), a written constitution and bill of rights to enshrine political, economic, civil and social rights and an inbuilt commitment to defend public property before private property. The constitution will specify the purpose of the Republic, which will involve pursuing the common good in all spheres off human life, especially through providing for the health, housing, education, welfare and security of all its citizens.
• The British (or Anglo-British) Union state, forged during the 17th century, was the means by which the English ruling class secured control over Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It was the launch pad for the British slave trade and the expansion of a British colonial Empire. English nationalism was subsumed into a British identity infused with militarism, chauvinism, racism and imperialist attitudes about the role of Britain in the world. The new constitution will mark the end of all British institutions – for example the British constitution, the British monarchy, the British parliament (Commons, Lords and Privy Council, and the British Union). The nations or people of England, Scotland and Wales (or Ireland) will be free to enter into a new constitutional contract and free to reject it. England, Scotland and Wales will therefore first become free independent sovereign nations before a voluntary federal republic can be agreed between them, with the right to self-determination (the right to leave) embedded in the federal constitution. A federal state will also mean the existence of multiple law-making Assemblies including one assembly for the whole federation.
• If a British Isles federation is set up, we will include, in the federal constitution, a commitment to complete equality between nations and full support for the right of all nations to self-determination, to oppose all manifestations of imperialism and the imposition of the rule of one nation or state over another.
• The essence of the secular state is that it defends the rights of individuals to not only criticise the religion into which they are born, but to reject it and to freely embrace another religion or remain without one. We will separate religion and the state and include religious toleration as an important pillar of the constitution, alongside the stipulation that no religion will have any specific status. The constitution will include the right to freedom of religious and ideological expression, the right to meet with fellow adherents for communal activities and to seek new adherents.
• The hard-won gains of workers over centuries and decades are frequently abolished by the existing state, as the Thatcher and post-Thatcher years showed. We know, too, from the experience of the Wilson government and the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, that the ruling class has an array of ways and means to ensure that radical reform, which threatens their power and wealth, does not happen. Crown powers allows large swathes of discretionary, secret and unaccountable powers, in particular the ability to mobilise coercive power through the armed forces, secret services, GCHQ, the Police and other organisations and institutions. A Social Republic is a pre-requisite for building socialism within a dual power situation, and necessary for the development of ‘a working class for itself’ within capitalism. The continued oppression and exploitation of people within a Social Republic is inevitable because of capitalism and, as such, must be contested through class struggle. We recognise that the Social Republic is therefore a vital stage in the journey to socialism. Its value is to protect the interests of the working class by creating a Dual Power situation within Capitalism, by capturing and replacing state power.
• Ethno-states rule over other ethnic and religious or linguistic groups by force and discrimination. We will be ever vigilant against any ethnic tensions and deal with them promptly and by appropriate means. To prevent the politicisation of ethnic or linguistic separatism, we will enshrine a commitment to a multi-ethnic society in our constitution.
• We will establish a Ministry of Mass Engagement and Collective Intelligence, inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement model in New York City, to transform the relationship between government and the public from passive consultation to active co-governance. The Ministry will coordinate permanent democratic participation across all levels of government through citizens’ assemblies, participatory budgeting, digital consultation platforms, workplace democracy forums, community councils, and large-scale public deliberation processes. Its purpose will be to maximise the collective intelligence of society by ensuring that political decisions draw upon the lived experience, practical knowledge, and creative capacity of the population as a whole, not merely the perspectives of politicians, lobbyists, civil servants, and corporate interests. Government departments will be legally required to demonstrate how public participation and citizen feedback have informed policy formation, implementation, and review. The Ministry will proactively engage communities historically excluded from political power, including working class communities, disabled people, renters, carers, migrants, and young people. It will maintain transparent public feedback loops so people can see exactly how their contributions shaped outcomes, rather than consultation merely as a box-ticking exercise. The Ministry will also develop publicly owned digital infrastructure for democratic participation, including open-source deliberation platforms, collaborative policy drafting systems, and national civic education programmes designed to cultivate democratic capability throughout society. Its guiding principle will be simple: democracy isn’t something done to people every four or five years. It’s something society continuously thinks with.
• We will encourage political parties and independent candidates to publish a Parliamentary Experience and Representation Statement (PERS) outlining the range of lived, workplace, technical, organisational, caring, community, and public-service experience represented by their candidates. The aim is not to impose occupational quotas, state certification, or restrictions on who may stand for office, but to strengthen the collective intelligence of Parliament by encouraging broader cognitive and experiential diversity within democratic institutions. This includes recognising the value of frontline work, trade union activity, disability and caring experience, local casework, community organising, technical and managerial experience, and other forms of practical and social knowledge, helping ensure political institutions better reflect the full complexity of society rather than being dominated by a narrow political-professional class.

Local Council Reforms

• Introduce No-Cuts People’s Budgets, based on democratic participation and real social need rather than austerity. Councils will work with residents, trade unions, tenants’ groups, disabled people’s organisations and community groups to co-design spending priorities through neighbourhood assemblies, participatory budgeting and ongoing public deliberation. Participatory processes must have genuine decision-making power, be transparent and inclusive, and prioritise voices most affected by inequality, ensuring local knowledge and lived experience shape how public money is spent.
• We will enact legislation to give local and regional government organisations the right to take up political campaigns. Boycott and Divest from any companies tied to countries engaged in human rights abuses, or theft of land and/or resources, or occupation, or genocide, or apartheid.
• We will legislate for Local and Regional Government workers to have an opt-out membership of trade unions, and that those unions will have regular meetings with elected people making overall decisions, on workers’ conditions of work, wage levels and staffing levels. We will introduce more council jobs and decent pay to deliver better services and cut unemployment. We will ensure there are no job cuts or downgrading and we will introduce real pay rises and a 4-day week.
• To help reduce pollution, and potentially make our cities carbon negative, we need to expand parks, allotments & wild areas, introduce more pedestrianisation, boost recycling services and introduce/retain congestion charges. We will also introduce municipal car, bike and scooter hire schemes and improve infrastructure for cyclists to encourage more people to cycle, such as building more bicycle lock-ups in neighbourhoods (most people don’t have garages so storing a bicycle is a barrier.
• We will introduce free council childcare, canteen and laundry facilities for all and we will roll out a programme to provide a network of at least 3 Public Toilets per 5,000 people. We will follow Spain’s example and set up a national network of climate shelters in public buildings to offer people refuge from intense heat, and we will go a step further and introduce temporary cold weather shelters to protect the vulnerable during winter months, at least until we have managed to end homelessness and the shelters are no longer required.
• We will create cross-disciplinary anti-austerity research and resources group on the concept of preventative support – to create evidence on how spending more money on early intervention and prevention reduces future costs across all public services.
• We will create and establish a mechanism that allows people to hold their local authority to account for failures in implementation of legislation, without the need for a judicial review.
• We will do away with commercially confidentiality and introduce full transparency, allowing the public to access information about proposals being put forward and decisions being made, on their behalf, and provide a mechanism by which constituency groups can challenge such proposals/decisions.
• We will carry out a thorough review of the existing system of local and regional governments, looking at the scope and remit of their powers, relative to central government, their decision-making structures, accountability and community outreach mechanisms. We will also look at access to information, how we can improve on staffing and how they should be funded. We will investigate systems in other countries, and other alternatives that have been suggested, and follow this up with a public consultation to determine recommendations that can be incorporated into a new Local and Regional Government Act.
• We will create a system of local assemblies, to receive reports on local government decisions, including on any commercial contracts in place, hold decision-makers to account, and feedback popular opinions on key issues.
• We will ensure that Local and Regional Government workers have opt-out membership of trade unions, and that those unions have regular meetings with elected people making overall decisions, on workers’ conditions of work, wage levels and staffing levels..

Fighting fascism, racism, misogyny, abuse and systemic injustice

• We will carry out a broad consultation among all groups affected by inequality, inequity, harassment or stereotyped ideas. We will report on our findings, devise strategies, policies, legislation and programmes of activity designed to mitigate any inequalities or inequities that have been identified, and we will legislate for full equality for all, in every aspect of life.
• We will restore The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and set them a number of tasks. We will instruct them to consult with people from different ethnic backgrounds, and work with the Institute of Race Relations, before devising a new strategy to challenge racism in the UK, in all its forms. We will ask them to research into the assumptions, quality and impact of a variety of anti-racist education initiatives and programmes and we will then use these findings to devise more effective anti-racist education initiatives for the workplace, on estates, as well as in schools and colleges and we will revise the school’s curriculum to ensure it includes a truthful historical record of British Imperialism. We will also educate students about the many liberation movements that came about as a result of imperialism, oppression and occupation, both in the UK and around the world. The CRE will also be asked to revisit the 2000 Race Relations (Amendment) Act, which established statutory duties on all public bodies to promote and practice racial equality throughout their functions, and ask them to make recommendations on how we can enforce compliance. We will introduce fresh legislation to act on their recommendations and create a new statutory body charged with the responsibility of implementing this legislation.
• We will analyse existing case studies of racist abuse and attacks in communities and workplaces, and, where possible, carry out interviews with both the victims and the perpetrators. We will then devise and implement schemes to support victims and to rehabilitate perpetrators. Upon completing the rehabilitation programme, perpetrators will be assessed to determine their suitability for remaining in employment and / or in occupation of social housing. Where perpetrators are found to be unsuitable or persist in racist abuse, or attacks, they will be sacked or evicted.
• After carefully reviewing the relevant laws and past experiences of stewarding at anti-racist protests and demonstrations, we will introduce a set of measures devised to protect and support protestors, including more effective stewarding and clear guidance to police services.
• We will immediately stop immigration raids and deportations of asylum seekers.
• We will protect vulnerable communities from violence, intimidation, discrimination and abuses of power by both state and non-state actors. We will legislate to stop the harassment of vulnerable communities by political parties and groups and by the state and we will stop people abusing the legal system in order to push a political agenda – whether that’s to shut down criticism of foreign countries and state bodies, dehumanising or demonising migrants, asylum seekers, ethnic groups, religious groups, the disabled community, women, the LGBT+ community, gender-diverse people, or any other vulnerable group of people. We will fund community-based support groups and mutual aid programmes that provide practical assistance, advocacy, protection and routes to safety outside of the criminal justice system.
• We will legislate to protect people’s lawful rights to march and meet by convening and training an organisation of stewards dedicated to their legal, digital and physical defence, and we will set up a rapid response network to ensure immediate support is available when needed.
• We will legislate for stronger action against people who attack, and institutions who punish, the LGBT+ community.
• We will overturn the Supreme Court ruling and recognise that Trans women are women. We will respect the right to self-identity and for people to use the public facilities that align with their gender identity.
• We will carry out a review of existing laws protecting LGBTQ+ people from attack & harassment, and devise appropriate new legislation, in consultation with LGBTQ+ groups, to strengthen that protection.
• We will legislate to update laws around gender identity, to ensure they respect the right to self-identify.
• We will legislate for all Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, Police Forces and all other public service providers to ensure they provide Trans inclusive local facilities.
• We will review and report on the operation of the Equal Pay Act 1970 and Employment Legislation related to wage and salary controls and then legislate to ensure all workers get equal pay for work of equal value.
• In an effort to replace tick-box approaches to institutional training, we will instead seek to implement survivor-governed accountability mechanisms. We will strengthen institutional responses to domestic abuse, sexual violence, coercive control and historical abuse by establishing mandatory survivor informed practice standards across policing, justice, health and public services. These standards will be developed and reviewed by an independent Survivor and Community Accountability Panel, made up primarily of paid survivors from varying backgrounds, including marginalised communities and professions, but also inviting specialist practitioners. Participation in survivor governance will never require public disclosure of survivor status and confidential routes will be made available. Training alone does not constitute compliance, however. Public bodies will be required to deliver measurable improvements in outcomes – this includes, but is not limited to: accessibility, safeguarding, victim experiences and implementation through regular independent audits and public reporting. Where institutions repeatedly fail to meet these standards, measures such as mandatory improvement plans, intervention, leadership review and parliamentary or local democratic scrutiny will be introduced.
• We will establish an Independent Public Accountability Commission with powers to investigate institutional failures across public services, including policing. This includes, but is not limited to misogyny, racism, abuse of authority, discrimination and safeguarding. The Commission will include paid representatives, independent experts and community members who will have powers to recommend disciplinary action, institutional reform and public accountability.
• We will legislate to disbar any legal professionals found to have expressed misogynist or racist views.
• We will establish and fund a National Survivor and Community Safety Assembly composed primarily of paid survivors, grassroots organisers, mutual aid practitioners, specialist advocates and community representatives with inclusive routes for participation that do not require public disclosure of survivor status. The assembly will have statutory powers to place institutions on improvement plans, introduce intervention measures and trigger democratic scrutiny.
• We will fund and expand independent, community-based services for survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence, coercive control and other forms of abuse. This includes refuges, advocacy services, rape crisis centres, trauma-informed counselling, peer support and specialist ‘by and for’ organisations. Additionally, after decades of failure and events leading to the damage of trust in policing bodies, survivors will have the right to access support regardless of whether they choose to engage with the police or criminal justice system. We will ensure that every route to safety, recovery, justice and accountability are available not just within formal policing structures, but beyond them too
• We will recognise campaigns for reparations by colonised peoples as legitimate, in part-compensation for their mass enslavement. We will recognise the ethnic cleansing, the expropriation of their resources and the ecological damage caused by Imperialism. We will respect the recent UN resolution and issue a full, formal legal apology for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, as well as other crimes of the former British Empire, and work towards reparatory justice, including the return of stolen goods.
• We will ensure that black and Asian soldiers who fought for the British during the wars receive a full apology and proper compensation for the discriminatory demob payments they received compared to their white counterparts.
• The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is a non-departmental public body in England and Wales, responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales. It is not considered to be fully independent by some because it is funded by the Home Office. We will implement Isabelle’s Law and establish a fully Independent National Police Misconduct Body to replace the IOPC. We will also introduce whistle-blower protection to safeguard emergency services staff who report racism, misogyny, and corruption from institutional retaliation and establish a publicly accessible misconduct register for police officers and staff found guilty of bullying, discrimination, or gross misconduct.
• We will provide support services and create facilities for victims who have been failed by the police, as a result of breaches of the Victims Code, to enable them to seek reparations for damages in law.
• We will make the court system more accessible to refugees, the disabled, migrants and minoritised victims. We will commission and fund more ‘by and for’ services for them and we will provide legal aid to any victims in the system with no recourse to public funds.
• We will legislate to ensure victims have immediate access to Individual Sexual Violence Advocates, Independent Domestic Violence Advocates, and therapeutic support, and for police officers to have a required minimum training standard on trauma and on the complex needs of these groups.
• We will decriminalise sex work and provide stronger protections and support for trafficking and abuse victims in support services. We will also provide victims with access to benefits, advocacy, healthcare and police liaison. We will also legislate to ensure that all brothels are run collectively by the sex workers themselves; outlaw pimps and other roles that coercively control sex workers, and ensure that police resources are focused on this.
• We will set up a task force, led by those with direct experience of working with victims, to research and address reasons why people enter the sex industry in the first place. Amongst other things, the task force will look at poverty, inequality and lack of support for abuse victims as contributory factors. We will then implement any policy recommendations and support services proposed by the task force to address the root causes and to protect workers (support providers like the National Ugly Mugs charity for example) and also help them to retrain or exit the profession should they want to.
• We will set up a firewall to prevent the sharing of peoples details (particularly of sex workers and migrant workers) with immigration enforcement, and other authorities, when victims seek healthcare and social support.
• We will set up an independent review into shamefully low rape prosecution rates. We will boost funds to ensure financial stability for refuge and rape crisis centres, reintroduce a Domestic Abuse Bill, improve safety for domestic violence victims going through the family court system and prohibit any cross-examination of the victim by their abuser.
• We will rescind all legislation that works to deny people their human rights and their right to freedom of speech. We will conduct a root and branch review of the judicial system to identify if, and how, the system operates to disenfranchise and persecute people, and communities, for their beliefs, or culture, or identity, or racial background, or gender identity, or political views. We will remove all obstacles to fair and equal treatment, identified by the review, including members of the Judiciary who have demonstrated a track record of targeting people from specific communities.
• To stop the drownings, we will remove all legislation and administrative procedures that have restricted migration to the UK, and fund a new statutory service to facilitate the entry and settlement of people in flight from repression, wars and poverty brought on by climate change. We will also initiate a public education campaign to inform British people about why migrants and refugees are forced to flee their countries and why they feel they have no choice but to take desperate measures, often risking their lives, to protect their families from persecution or even from death, or to give them a chance of a better life. We will facilitate safe forms of transit to the UK by setting up Visa application facilities in the Sahel, North Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan and in all areas where armed conflict, extreme poverty or Climate change is driving people to seek lives elsewhere
• The Traveller community, as a whole, will be recognised as a protected group under the equality act. We will put an end to discriminatory practices and police harassment by mandating that councils fulfil their obligations to include Traveller sites in local services, such as bin collections, and that they expand designated areas for Travellers to live, based on commonly used sites (where possible). Designated areas would also allow local authorities to work with local service providers (like health care authorities, schools, legal and financial services providers etc) to ensure the community has access to vital services. Providing well-appointed designated areas, and vital services, will hopefully incentivise the community to stay for longer periods of time, making it easier for them to access skills training and look for work, which will also allow Traveller children to remain in education for longer and access important health care services. Local Authorities who fail to meet their legal obligations to Traveller communities can expect a cut in government funding for the subsequent year, with funds then being redirected to Traveller community support groups and charities, enabling them to step in where the local authority has failed.
• Whistle Blowers and victims of bullying in the workplace (irrespective of whether they possess a protected characteristics or not) must be protected. We will strengthen the Whistle Blowers Act 1998 by including volunteers, the self-employed and ‘gig’ workers. We will also conduct a widespread consultation to determine how we ensure that all employees (workers, office holders and the armed forces etc), have a free standing right not to be bullied at work, and have access to independents support, guidance, review boards and, where necessary, free legal representation.
• Consistent with Clause Two’s proposed re-establishment of the Commission for Racial Equality, we will set up a body to investigate cases of misogyny, racism and wider abuses of authority in the service sector, including in the police force. This body will, in conjunction with the CRE, be charged with implementing the Public Duty of all public sector organisations, and also have the remit of removing any officers and staff from service who have been found to have behaved in misogynistic or racist ways or otherwise abused their authority in a significant and fundamental way. This removal from service will happen after a failure to respond satisfactorily to a rehabilitative programme referred to in Clause 3.

Foreign Policy

• We oppose racism. We obviously therefore oppose Zionism. We clearly oppose imperialism.
• We oppose all so-called Development Aid, Structural Adjustment Programmes, International Institutions like the IMF, the expropriatory practices of transnational companies in the global south and the flow of Western funds and weaponry to warlords operating in conflict zones. Re recognise that Overseas Development Aid is a euphemism, in that aid is meant to and does benefit the state that provides it; the state receiving the aid usually gets it in kind rather than in ways which give it any discretion as to how to use it to benefit the people in whose name it is claimed to be given.
• We actively oppose all settler colonialist states, not just Israel, because they are all based on the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, racist segregation, repression and racialised vilification of them. We therefore support all organised attempts by the oppressed and marginalised peoples to fight back against such states, such as those of Hamas, the Kurdish paramilitaries, the ‘Latinos’ of the US, the migrants of western Europe, the Zapatistas of Chiapas in Mexico, the Tamils taken to Sri Lanka and Malaysia by the British and other Indian nationals taken to Africa and the Caribbean, the indigenous movements of Amazonian and other peoples, such as the Uygars, the Sami and the Irish.
• We actively oppose the spread of reactionary ideas in the global south by US-based & funded Evangelical Christian groups, resulting in the increased repression, harassment and murder of LGBTQ+ people, a brake on the struggle of women and girls in the global south for civil and legal equality and full access to education.
• We actively oppose all military invasions, coups and attempts at “regime change” by rich, imperialist countries in the global south. We will support states in the global south, however locally repressive they may be, that fight back, economically or militarily against Imperialist aggression, provided the people of these states share and own this decision to fight back. This is why we support the fightback against the current Imperialist aggression in Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and territories held by the Kurdish people.
• In line with our international commitments, we seek to share our resources, (economic, educational and medical ) with those nations requiring our assistance. In solidarity with the international community, we seek to strengthen humanitarian efforts against poverty, disease, natural disasters and the devastating effects of climate change. We are committed to scientific advancements that benefit all humanity such as better food production /distribution and access to water purification processes and free availability of medicine (at cost) to combat those diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest in our society. We propose to allocate a minimum of 1% GDP annually in foreign aid to those nations that would most benefit from this assistance.
• We actively support campaigns for reparations by colonised peoples, in part-compensation for their mass enslavement, ethnic cleansing, the expropriation of their resources and for the ecological damage caused by Imperialism.

Support for Farming, Fishing, Rural and Coastal Communities

• We will set up a government body, The FFRC Communities Dept., with the remit of tackling the problems that uniquely affect the farming, fishing, rural and coastal communities.
• To tackle supermarket price fixing, one of the responsibilities of the FFRC will be to intervene on behalf of farming communities to set minimum market prices for farming produce. This will ease some of the pressure on farmers by setting a reliable bottom line and making it easier to plan ahead.
• The FFRC dept. will also help manage temp-labour resources by setting up a system to register people looking for temporary labouring jobs in farming and fishing communities (students looking for work during the holidays, European migrant farm workers for example) and introduce a fast track visa type system so farmers have fast and easy access to a seasonal labour force when they need it.
• We will also support other devolved governments to help them set up similar schemes if they choose to.

Confronting the Climate Crisis

• Following the nationalisation of the energy industry, we will prioritise transitioning away from fossil fuels. This will be achieved through huge investment in renewables [and nuclear?]. We will ban the establishment of new oil and gas drilling sites. The establishment of new oil and gas power stations will be banned. Where possible, fossil fuel power plants will be decommissioned. However, we will make sure people working in the fossil fuel industry on oil rigs, power plants etc. are prioritised for employment in green energy with fully funded retraining if needed.
• We will aim to reach below net-zero net emissions [NOT terrestrial emissions]. This will include the carbon footprint of imported products. This will help offset past emissions as well as current emissions of other countries unable to transition to net-zero quickly due to the impacts of colonialism. 
• We will shift our food production to a green, sustainable industry through a nationalised industry policy that includes offering grants to farmers so we can phase out unsustainable farming practices that are bad for the soil, such as harmful herbicides and insecticides
• The UK forestry standard is not fit for purpose – it does not require that forestry be sustainable, only that any negative impacts are mitigated. For example, it permits permanent and continuous damage to soil, asking only that damage be repaired as best as possible. It does not establish standards more specific than on impact, making them largely unenforceable. To fix this, we will commission a review of the standard to update it to require that forestry be sustainable indefinitely, as well as making the standard enforceable to ensure this is fulfilled. In addition, the amount of woodland in the UK will be expanded to 25% of total land area in the UK
• Roughly 40% of carbon emissions come from the construction, operation, or maintenance of buildings. Construction practises will be updated to minimise carbon emissions, and housing standards will be updated to improve insulation and reduce carbon emissions due to heating. Similar standards will be created for other similar non-residential buildings, such as offices and shops, to further reduce operational carbon emissions. Funding will also be provided to improve existing homes to reduce energy use.
• Transportation is estimated to account for between 20% and 40% of carbon emissions, with around 70-75% of this coming from road transportation. Most of this is due to cars being used as the primary means of transportation, which is inefficient and resource-intensive. To reduce car use, we will make all local bus and train use free, and significantly lower the cost of train travel. More investment into the public transport sector will also be used to make trains and buses much more reliable. In addition, we will expand cycling infrastructure to make cycling a feasible means of transportation, and review the highway code to explore methods of making cycling safer. 
• The impacts of the climate crisis have begun to make themselves clear. The UK now sees more extreme weather, with intense flooding and droughts. In addition to reducing the global climate crisis, we must also mitigate its impacts by improving our water management. We will buy fields in high flooding areas and convert them to woodland to improve water capture and reduce flooding. In addition, we will improve the capacity of reservoirs by building new reservoirs and rebuilding or repairing decommissioned reservoirs, to mitigate the impacts of drought. Water use will also be considered as part of transitioning to sustainable agriculture.
• Air and water pollution are major issues in urban areas. Raw sewage dumping is a major issue affecting our waterways, and field runoff often contains herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers that pollute downstream rivers. Sustainable farming practises will involve reducing and limiting the use of pollutants, and we will expand sewage treatment facilities with the aim of completely eliminating the practise of dumping raw sewage. Air pollution is largely a result of car use – microplastics in the air are mostly from car tyres, and petrol cars also release various other toxic pollutants. Our expansion of public transport and cycling infrastructure will improve this significantly. We will also fund research into other alternatives to petrol cars which do not use rare earth minerals, which are a finite resource and mined using child and slave labour. We will reduce plastic pollution by expanding recycling infrastructure, and will implement a transition period followed by a ban on certain plastics as packaging for certain goods – replacing single use plastic wrapping for food with wax paper etc

Media Reform

• Mainstream media has been subject to corporate influence for a number of decades now. Wealthy businessmen have realised that they can buy up platforms in order to control what gets reported and how its interpreted. This is the complete antithesis to traditional objective journalism. There is rarely any effort at impartiality and reports are often devoid of facts, but still get passed off as factual reporting. Unlike traditional journalism there is rarely any research undertaken, nor any attempt to properly investigate a story and, far too often, journalists choose to churn out highly subjective opinion pieces. Over recent years, this has tipped over into highly political narrative control and even propaganda. Opinion pieces are not necessarily a new phenomenon and have been common place both on the left and right of the political spectrum. Unfortunately, as a consequence of Wealthy businessmen buying up more and more platforms, the narrative has now shifted significantly to the right. To revive objective reporting and restore the politcal balance, and trust in the media, we will nationalise the mainstream platforms and set up cooperatives of industry experts to run them in accordance with traditional journalistic principles, focused entirely on fact based reporting.
• We will establish a journalistic code of conduct and set up a new body to investigate any breaches of code. Anyone found to be in breach of the code may be subject to a fine or, where there has been a serious indiscretion, subject to a disciplinary and, potentially, even fired from their role. If there is any suggestion that the breach may have involved any illegal conduct then the matter will also be referred to the police for further investigation. 

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