Alongside the creation of a new mandatory professional standards on vetting, checks and misconduct for individual officers will be introduced within the 2024-29 Parliament by the Government, any police officer of police service member with a history of violence against women and girls will be barred from the service and automatic suspensions will be implemented and enacted if officers are investigated for domestic abuse and sexual offences by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
All police forces in England will have a legal advocate introduced by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament with the explicit aim to to advise every victim from the moment of a police report being made through the criminal process and on to a possible trial.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
An Industrial Strategy Council will be created, with representatives from every UK nation and region and some businesses and trade unions, to advise the Government on long-term economic policy making.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
An explicit target will be set for NHS England to close the mortality gap (currently higher than other ethnicities, including White) for pregnant women between the Black and Asian ethnicities and all other ethnicities that are currently better.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
An independent Armed Forces Commissioner will be established to look after the welfare and interests of members of the Armed Forces.
Secretary of State for Defence
An unspecified number totalling multiple ‘thousands’ of additional GPs (full-time and part-time) will be trained per year compared with the annual rate pre-July 2024 by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
An unspecified number totalling multiple ‘thousands’ of additional GPs (full-time and part-time) will be trained per year compared with the annual rate pre-July 2024 by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
As part of the Government’s plans to reform the private rental sector, Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions will be outlawed, which is an continuation of the previous Government’s undelivered pledge to ban them. A Section 21 notice means that landlords give tenants at least 2 months’ notice to leave their property. This would deliver greater power and contractual security to tenants at the expense of landlords.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
At an unspecified future date when the Chancellor determines the UK national finances to permit, UK spending on Foreign Aid will return to its former limit of 0.7% of GDP – a target which had been scrapped by the previous Government – meaning more Aid money will be spent overseas (international aid efforts).
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
An independent Armed Forces Commissioner will be created with the remit to investigate, adjudicate and rule on cases referred to them to help improve the standards, treatment, and quality of life for members of HM Armed Forces.
Secretary of State for Defence
Automatic, ‘severe’, fines will be introduced for water companies’ wrongdoing where it is immediately clear they have acted unlawfully. Water companies will be required to publish data on discharges from emergency overflows in near real time, which will then be independently monitored and scrutinised.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Awaab’s Law – a law designed to increase health and hygeine standards in rented and social housing after a child died of exposure to mould in their property in 2020 – must be extended to the private sector and standards for privately rented properties must improve.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Britain will spend a minimum of 2% of GDP on Defence and ensure our forces meet NATO standards by testing them.
Secretary of State for Defence
Britain will spend a minimum of 2% of GDP on Defence and maintain our nuclear deterrent.
Secretary of State for Defence
British railway operatiors will not be allowed to renew, or bid to renew, their existing contracts, and the Government will run the railways through the public sector as each of the remaining private sector contracts expire organically, with no compensation paid by the taxpayer as a result to the private sector.
Secretary of State for Transport
Bursaries for training teachers and education professionals will be reviewed and updated by the Government, alongside retention payments to further incentivise the training and rectuitment of new additional teachers and to prevent existing and future teachers leaving the state education system and/or the country and/or entering the private education sector.
Secretary of State for Education
By 2030 the Green Prosperity Plan will have created 650,000 jobs across the country through the expansion of renewable energy.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
By 2030, the Government will aim to cover every household and business in the country with full 5G phone signal and data coverage as well as full gigabit coverage to provide ultra-fast internet connection for everyone.
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
By 2034 knife crime will be halved compared to July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
By the end of the 2024-29 Parliament, the Bank of England will be mandated by the Government to give ‘due consideration’ to the effects of its economic policy decisions on ‘climate change’.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
By the end of the 2024-29 Parliament, there will be an additional 6,500 qualified ‘expert’ teachers compared with the numbers pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for Education
Central Government funding will be devolved to local regions/devolved administrations/local council authorities for the purpose of creating local strategies that join up work, health and skills to benefit local people in each of those sectors.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Changes to taxation, spending and borrowing will only be made at the Budget in Autumn, meaning that there will only be one ‘major fiscal event’ per year to give as much clarity as possible to the general public and to businesses, organisations, companies, etc.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Combined Authorities (presumably also Combined County Authorities) will see adult skills (work, education, and daily life) funding devolved to them.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Community Pharmacist Prescribing Services will be created alongside the operation of General Practitioners to enable more pharmacists to have the independent ability/right/capability to prescribe to patients without the prescription needing to come from an NHS professional or a GP – in effect de-regulating pharmacists from their current dependence on NHS prescriptions.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
By the end of October 2024, legislation will be introduced to implement Labour’s ‘New Deal for Working People’, which will create a partnership between business and trade unions.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) will be reformed, specifically the compulsory purchase compensation rules, to enable faster developments, provide benefits and better meet the Government’s housing targets.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Corporation Tax will remain at 25%, and will only change of other countries lower theirs and pose a risk of UK corporations moving overseas due to a possibly uncompetitive UK taxation rate in the future.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Decision-making over the allocation of structural funds to the representatives of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be restored to devolved administrations, reversing the decision of the previous Government, and additional funding will be made availiable to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to meet the investment commitments made in the 2024 Labour Manifesto.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Data sharing across child care and Government education services will be improved, with a single unique identifier for each family and/or child, to better support children and families by providing all parties with greater and easier access to more information.
Secretary of State for Education
Debt must be falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the first official economic forecast of the 2024-29 Parliament (c.Autumn 2029).
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Consumer protections will be created (presumably with a new regulator with powers to fine ticket sellers and event organisers) if ticket resales begin to cost too much money to be considered ‘affordable’, which has the expressed intention to ‘put fans back at the heart of events’. Ticket resales and their prices could become subject to an updated Consumer Rights Act.
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Day-to-day Government spending will not exceed taxation revenues (this will not apply to capital investment, which can still be funded by borrowing).
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Despite not revoking existing licences for oil and gas, the new Government will not issue any new licenses to explore new oil and gas fields.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Existing sanctions on Russian state and non-state assets will continue and be strengthened to freeze further assets, which will then be repurposed to be used to financially support Ukraine, which is a continuation of what has already been occuring with assets frozen, especially in the EU.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
During the course of the 2024-29 Parliament, 16- and 17-year-olds will be given the right to vote in all elections, committing the Government to ensuring 16- and 17-year-olds will be eligible to vote in the 2029 General Election at the very latest.
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Employees would also have the right from day one of starting employment of protection from unfair dismissal, ensuring that employers must provide a valid reason for dismissal and follow correct procedure.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Employers who breach visa rules and employment law will be banned from hiring workers from abroad.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Every Primary School will have a free breakfast club for children.
Secretary of State for Education
Existing Further Education colleges will be changed and redesignated as specialist Technical Excellence Colleges to teach tecnhical and vocational courses for students not intending to enter the tertiary education sector (universities).
Secretary of State for Education
Existing Government bodies advising on infrastructure will be merged into a new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority which will work to set strategic infrastructure priorities and oversee the design, scope, and delivery of Government projects.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Every Primary School will have a free breakfast club for children.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Funding and a framework for a new Teacher Training Entitlement will be created to ensure teachers stay up to date on best practice.
Secretary of State for Education
Five RAAC (poor-quality concrete)-built hospitals will be reconstructed/redeveloped with £20 billion allocated in 2023. Five hospitals are Airedale in West Yorkshire, Queen Elizabeth King’s Lynn in Norfolk, Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire, Mid Cheshire Leighton in Cheshire and Frimley Park in Surrey.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Formal published reporting of a disability and ethnicity pay gap for large employers will be legally created by the Government to hold large employers and institutions to account. This could include public bodies like Birmingham City Council with recently lost a landmark legal case over a pay dispute under the Equality Act 2010 and has contrinbuted majorly to the Council declaring bankruptcy with equal pay claims of over £760 million needing paying out.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
From the first day of starting employment, employees would have the right to take parental leave and be entitled to sick pay.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Government contract procurement rules will be reformed to enable SMEs greater access to government contracts, compared to the rate of Government contracts given to SMEs pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Further devolution compared to pre-July 2024, particularly in areas that lack devolved powers, with more encouragement for these areas to take on devolved powers.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Great British Energy will be funded with £8.3 billion over the 2024-2029 Parliament, enabling it to establish itself and the UK further in the energy market.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Grants and low-interest loans will be available to support energy efficiency upgrades in the ’19 million homes below an EPC B and C’. These grants and loans will focus on low carbon energy efficient upgrades such as solar panels, batteries and low carbon heating.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
HM Government will devolve employment support funding to the Welsh Government.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
HM Government will play a leading role in calling for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression, presumably at the Hague, into the Russian agression that led to its military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and perhaps also into its annexation of Crimea and support of Donbass separatists from 2014.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
HM Government are publicly committing to their intention to support an independent Palestinian state to neighbour the existing state of Israel, and will work to facilitate this outcome at an unspecified point in the future.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
Grey belt’ land will be prioritised over greenbelt land for new developments, under new ‘golden rules’ to ensure these developments benefit their local communities and nature.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Greater powers will be given to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests the powers to start investigations into misconduct and ensure they have access to the evidence they need in cases where Government Ministers are accused of misconduct, lobbying, or conflicts of interests.
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Greater powers will be given to coroners to access information held by teconology companies, in particular social media giants, to determine the cause of death or contributing factors when a child dies. This will likely influence coroners reports and increase pressure on social media companies to regulate their content to protect children from online harms.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
HM Government will attempt to negotiate a new UK-EU security pact to cooperate and share resources in matters of security.
Secretary of State for Defence
Greater devolved powers for existing Combined Authorities, building on the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
HM Government will play a leading role in publishing a concrete and clear path for Ukraine to join the existing NATO alliance at an unspecified point in the future.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
HM Government will propose and attempt to create a ‘Clean Power Alliance’ of international partners to cooperate on preventing, reducing and reversing man-made climate change to reduce atmosphereic pollution and global warming.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
HM Government will push for all hostages being held by Hamas to be released.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
HM Government will push for Hamas and the Israeli Goevernment to negitiate and agree to an immediate ceasefire to end the active hostilities between the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and fighters aligned with Hamas within Gaza and the Middle East more widely to end the ongoing conflict.
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
HM Government will seek to negotiate new bilateral agreements with Britain’s existing partners in the Joint Expeditionary Force, which consists specific of NATO countries including Britain, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands.
Secretary of State for Defence
HM Government will seek to work directly with the governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the COP30 annual climate summit hosts, Brazil, to help prevent, reducd and reverse man-made climate change to reduce atmosphereic pollution and global warming.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
HMRC will be reformed and modernised to improve its efficiency to reduce the amount of money lost to tax avoidance.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hundreds of new investigators and intelligence officers will be hired to strengthen British border security.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service will be merged into one organisation.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Immigration numbers will be reduced from their past numbers.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
In the Israel-Hamas War, and in the Middle-East more widely, the UK will support the upholding of all relevant international laws (enforcing international laws) where they are being broken or at risk of being broken, with sanctions and measures possibly being taken to punish those violating them (possibly including limiting arms sales to Israel).
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development affairs
In order to “get Britain building again”, the new Government will continue similar pre-July 2024 policies towards greenbelt land, whilst adopting some new approaches to greenbelt land to meet their housing targets.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
In keeping with the new Government’s manifesto pledge of ‘Net Zero by 2030’ it is reasonable to expect that solar power will have been tripled by 2030 compared to pre-July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
In keeping with the new Government’s manifesto pledge of ‘Net Zero by 2030’ it is reasonable to expect that onshore wind will have been doubled by 2030 compared to pre-July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
In all issues that are currently explicitly devolved to the Scottish Government, HM Government will support partnerships made between the Scottish Government and overseas bodies and governments provided they are both relevant to the devolved Scottish administration and its powers and appropriate – i.e. not overruling the powers and duties of HM Government – which includes initiatives relating to global health.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Legislation propoed by the previous Government to ban those born after a certain date/under a certain age from ever purchasing cigarettes will be grought forward by the Government to create ‘smoke-free’ generations going forwards and to eventually eliminate ‘smoking-related’ deaths.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Legislation will be introduced by the end of the 2024-2029 Parliament to outlaw ninja swords, zombie blades and machetes to try and reduce the rate of knife crime whilst also strengthening rules to prevent online sales of lethal blades. Executives of online companies that breach the new rules on online sales of lethal blades will be personally held to account through tough sanctions.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Legislation to improve building safety and building regulations, especially concerning cladding, and/or all legislative recommendations from the Grenfell Inquiry must be implemented by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament and a repeat or equaivalent fire to the 2017 Grenfell incident must not take place during or after that window.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Legislation to prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against and to empower private renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases by landlords to be passed “immediately”, or within at least the first year (July-2024 to July-2025) of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Legislation will be introduced by the end of the 2024-2029 Parliament to outlaw trail hunting and the import of hunting trophies.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Legislation will be introduced by the end of the 2024-2029 Parliament to end puppy smuggling and farming, along with the use of snare traps.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Local authorities will be supported by funding for additional planning officers, through increasing the rate of stamp duty surcharge paid by non-UK residents, compared to pre-July 2024 rates.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
Local majors and local authorities will be given new powers which will enable them to franchise local bus services, as well as removing the ban on municipal ownership.
Secretary of State for Transport
Major reforms to childcare will see the Government commit to opening an additional 3,000 nurseries by upgrading space in existing primary schools in order to deliver a promised increase of Government-funded hours families are entitled to which will help reduce the costs of childcare and raising a family for working and non-working parents.
Secretary of State for Education
Neighbourhood Health Centres will be established and trialled officially by NHS England to bring together existing services such as family doctors, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists, palliative care, and mental health specialists under one roof to enable patients to have greater access to the professionals and appointments they need more easily and readily.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Net migration levels during the 2024-2029 Parliament will be lower compared to pre-July 2024.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Mandatory professional standards on vetting, checks and misconduct for individual officers will be introduced within the 2024-29 Parliament by the Government, which is of great public interest after the recent high-profile Sarah Everard case.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
Mayors will be given the power to unify and integrate transport systems in order to improve passenger journeys, as part of Labour’s pledge to increase devolved powers.
Secretary of State for Transport
Measures will be taken to improve morale in the Armed Forces.
Secretary of State for Defence
Members of Parliament (members of the House of Commons, not explicitly Peers or future members of the proposed ‘alternative’ second chamber) will not be allowed to take up paid advisory or consultant roles whilst being a sitting Member of Parliament. This may also strenghten existing rules about former Ministers becoming advisors or consultants not being able to do so within a period of leaving their official roles.
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More charge points for electric vehicles will be installed in the UK and sales and usage of electric vehicles will increase compared with the pre-July 2024 rate.
Secretary of State for Transport
Negotiations between HM Government and the Executive of Northern Ireland will be opened with the intention of creating a new fiscal framework for Northern Ireland, perhaps involving greater devolution.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
New agreements with foreign countries will be created to make it possible to remove illegal migrants faster to their country of origin, where this is safe to do so.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
New laws and rules will be created to stop employers and recruiters whon have broken employment law from hiring workers from overseas on lower wages than British workers.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
New laws will be passed to provide the same legal immunity in the debating chambers of the devolved legislatures of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to provide their elected members with the same free speech protections (MPs in Westminster are protected by **Parliamentary Privilege**, allowing them to speak freely during parliamentary proceedings without fear of legal action, such as defamation suits. This protection, rooted in the Bill of Rights 1689, applies only to what MPs say in Parliament and does not cover statements made outside of parliamentary settings) enjoyed by MPs at Westminster.
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
New legal safeguards around strip-searching children and young people will be created within the every police force in England/under the jurisdiction of HM Government by the end of the 2024-29 Parliament.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
New offences will be introduced regarding assaults on shopworkers to deter shoplifting.
Secretary of State for the Home Department
New regulations determining how the status of a second-hand electric car battery is listed when put up for sale will be created to give more information to the purchasers of second-hand electric cars, to prevent electric cars with poor or declining batteries from being sold to unsupecting buyers.
Secretary of State for Transport
New rules and laws will be passed to provide greater transparency over donations made to political parties in the United Kingdom, perhaps also with measures designed to limit large donations, remove the anonymity given to smaller donors, and prevent donors who are not UK citizens (especially once the non dom status has been replaced by the Government.
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New regulations to be placed on the companies developing the most powerful AI models to ensure the safe development and use of these AI models, as well as banning the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes to achieve this aim.
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Offshore wind will have been quadrupled by 2030 compared to pre-July 2024 levels.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax will be abolished to make sure all those eligible to pay inheritance tax will do so.
Chancellor of the Exchequer