speeding up infrastructure and unblocking 100,000 homes,
cutting red tape for business,
and creating new fishing opportunities.
Fund 100,000 high-quality apprenticeships for young people,
paid for by curbing the number of poor-quality university degrees that leave young people worse off.
and ensuring parents can see what their children are being taught, especially on sensitive matters like sex education.
and removing the artificial divide between academic and technical learning.
so we can protect British interests at home and abroad in an increasingly hostile world.
while bringing in the skills our businesses and NHS needs.
Increase NHS spending above inflation every year,
recruiting 92,000 more nurses
and 28,000 more doctors,
driving up productivity in the NHS
and moving care closer to people’s homes through Pharmacy First,
new and modernised GP surgeries
and more Community Diagnostic Centres.
Deliver 1.6 million well-designed homes in the right places
while protecting our countryside,
and introduce a new Help to Buy scheme.
expanding community payback
and legislating to evict social tenants who repeatedly disrupt their neighbours.
Back drivers by stopping road pricing,
and applying local referendums to new 20mph zones and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.
and protecting our best agricultural land from solar farms.
protect the UK’s internal market
and the integrity of our United Kingdom.
In 2010 we inherited an economy in tatters, with Labour admitting themselves there was ‘no money’.
We have faced three generational global economic challenges: the aftermath of the financial crisis; a global pandemic; and the biggest energy shock since the 1970s.
Against this backdrop, since 2010 the UK has had the third highest growth rate in the G7.
We have created four million more jobs,
cut taxes for working people and pensioners
and repaired the public finances.
The UK economy is now growing faster than Germany, France, Italy and the United States,
real wages have been rising for nearly a year,
inflation has fallen from 11.1% to 2.3%, lower than in Europe and the US,
and debt as a share of GDP is forecast to start falling next year.
The plan we set out last year, to halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce debt, is working.
Economic security is the bedrock of any future success, which is why we have a clear plan to take the bold action needed to build a strong economy.
reducing borrowing and debt;
backing businesses to invest, innovate and trade;
cutting taxes and reforming our welfare system;
delivering world-class education; and
delivering an affordable transition to domestic, sustainable energy.
Sustainable public finances are essential for a strong economic plan.
It was only because of the difficult decisions we took to repair the public finances after 2010, which saw the deficit fall from 10.3% under Labour to 2.1% on the eve of the pandemic, that we were able to provide almost £400 billion of support to families and businesses to get through Covid and the energy shock.
The only way to give people the peace of mind that government will be able to support them again when future shocks hit is to get borrowing and debt down.
The alternative is to let borrowing get out of control, driving inflation and interest rates up, and leaving our children and grandchildren to pick up the bill.
In the next Parliament, we will continue to meet our fiscal rules of having public sector net debt falling and for public sector net borrowing to be below 3% of GDP in the fifth year of the forecast.
The measures in this manifesto are fully funded and would result in lower borrowing in 2029-30, which will be the target year for our fiscal rules in the first fiscal event of the new Parliament.
The Conservative Party will always be the party of business.