We have recruited 20,000 police officers,
delivered 6,000 prison places as part of the largest prison expansion since the Victorian era
and deported over 18,000 foreign national offenders since 2019 alone.
These full time, fully warranted officers will be dedicated to neighbourhood policing.
We will always back the police in the lawful and professional use of force,
alongside a fair and proportionate accountability system.
Restore public trust in policing.
We will legislate to ensure officers are appropriately vetted during their service and those who fail can be sacked.
This will ensure premises are better prepared for terrorist attacks by requiring them to take proportionate steps to mitigate risks.
We will keep turning the tide against fraudsters.
In the last year we have reduced fraud by 13%, including through our new National Fraud Squad with 400 officers now in post.
and ban cold calls on financial products so fraudsters cannot dupe people into buying fake investments.
We have made violence against women and girls a strategic policing requirement for the first time, making clear to the police that these crimes are as significant as terrorism, serious and organised crime and child sexual abuse.
We have strengthened the law to punish predators with new offences for stalking, controlling or coercive behaviour,
non-fatal strangulation and suffocation, sharing of intimate images or ‘revenge porn’, non-consensual taking of images of a woman breastfeeding, ‘up skirting’ and raised the maximum penalties for harassment.
We will support victims of domestic abuse including through our Domestic Abuse Act, which created a statutory definition of domestic abuse and gave new powers to police and the courts.
We have increased rape prosecutions by 56% since 2010
and pre-recorded crossexamination for victims in all Crown courts.
We will carefully consider the recommendations of Baroness Bertin’s Independent Review of Pornography and ensure we have the right safeguards in place to protect against any harmful impacts of the industry.
We will toughen sentencing for the worst offenders.
We have already ended Labour’s automatic halfway release for violent and serious sexual offenders.
and require rapists and other serious sexual offenders to spend the whole of their sentences behind bars.
and expand the use of remote hearings.
and will continue to ensure access to justice through legal aid provision.
and continue mediation vouchers to help more families resolve private law child arrangements without an acrimonious court battle.
In recent months we have seen shocking increases in protests being used as a cover for extremist disruption and criminality.
We cannot allow a small and vocal minority to destroy our democratic values.
We have passed tough new laws to curb disruptive protests.
Our Public Order Act 2023 gave the police new powers to intervene where protests cause serious disruption to communities, leading to the arrests of over 600 Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protestors in London alone.
We will always support teachers to uphold and promote fundamental British values
and ensure they are protected from accusations of blasphemy.
Abuse or discrimination based on religion is unacceptable.
We will not tolerate antisemitic hatred in any form.
and allocated additional funding to support schools and universities to understand, recognise and tackle antisemitism.
We do not tolerate anti-Muslim hatred and will seek to stamp it out wherever it occurs.
and are proud to support and help fund Tell MAMA’s vital work.
In the last few years, we have faced the greatest shock to our energy security since the 1970s.
Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices spiralling.
Because of the decisions we had taken to boost domestic energy production and invest in renewables, Britain had little reliance on Russian fuel when the invasion began, unlike some of our European neighbours.
But when global energy prices spiked, the Government stepped in to pay around half the typical household bill at the peak, saving families £1,500 on average.
Bills are now coming down, and in July will fall to the lowest level in over two years.
But the shock has reminded us of the importance of securing our long-term energy supply.
We are proud of our record and remain committed to delivering net zero by 2050.
Today the UK is home to the five largest offshore wind farms in the world.
Half of our electricity comes from renewables, compared to just 7% when Labour were last in office.
We have reduced emissions further and faster than any of our competitors and the UK is the first major economy to get halfway to net zero.
And we have done this while growing our economy by 80%, demonstrating to other countries that there is a positive economic path to tackling climate change.
We will boost our energy independence in an increasingly unstable world.
and protect high-skilled and well-paid jobs in the industry.
Labour are committed to shutting down the North Sea, rejecting any new licenses.