Labour will establish specialist rape courts at every Crown Court location to fast-track cases.
“Labour will fast-track rape cases, with specialist courts at every Crown Court location in England and Wales.”
Labour will place domestic abuse experts in 999 control rooms and provide legal advocates in every police force area to support victims from report to trial.
“Building on the success of the approach adopted by Labour Police and Crime Commissioners, we will introduce domestic abu…”
Labour will ensure schools teach about misogyny, healthy relationships, and consent.
“Misogyny is one root cause, and therefore Labour will ensure schools address misogyny and teach young people about healt…”
Labour will ensure police forces have powers to track and tackle misogyny.
“We will ensure police forces have the powers they need to track and tackle the problem.”
Labour will strengthen Stalking Protection Orders and give women the right to know the identity of online stalkers.
“Labour will strengthen the use of Stalking Protection Orders and give women the right to know the identity of online sta…”
Labour will introduce a new criminal offence for spiking.
“Labour will introduce a new criminal offence for spiking to help police better respond to this crime.”
Labour will strengthen rights and protections for women in cohabiting couples and workplace whistleblowers on sexual harassment.
“We will strengthen the rights and protections available to women in co-habiting couples, as well as for whistleblowers i…”
Labour will give HMICFRS new powers to intervene with failing police forces.
“Labour will give His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire & Rescue Services new powers to intervene with failing…”
Labour will introduce mandatory professional standards for vetting and misconduct, and strengthen training on racism and violence against women and girls.
“We will introduce mandatory professional standards on vetting, checks and misconduct for individual officers; and strong…”
Labour will bar officers with a history of violence against women and girls and introduce automatic suspensions for officers investigated for domestic abuse and sexual offences.
“Anyone with a history of violence against women and girls will be barred from the service and we will introduce automati…”
Labour will introduce new legal safeguards around strip-searching children and young people.
“Labour will introduce new legal safeguards around strip-searching children and young people.”
Labour will introduce an expanded fraud strategy covering online, public sector, and serious fraud, and work with technology companies to prevent platform exploitation.
“Labour will introduce a new expanded fraud strategy to tackle the full range of threats, including online, public sector…”
Labour will standardise policing approaches to procurement, IT, and training, and invest in specialist capabilities like digital forensics to tackle organised crime.
“We will work with national policing bodies and police staff to standardise approaches to procurement, IT, professional s…”
Labour will increase crime-solving rates by reducing barriers to charges, cutting bureaucracy, and improving collaboration, including faster charging for domestic abuse cases.
“Labour will reverse this, driving up the proportion of crimes solved by reducing barriers to bringing charges, cutting b…”
Labour will introduce a direct entry scheme for detectives to address recruitment challenges and boost investigation skills.
“Labour recognises recruitment challenges, particularly for detectives, so we will roll out a direct entry scheme for det…”
Labour commits to increase crime-solving rates by reducing bureaucratic barriers to charging suspects and improving police-prosecutor collaboration.
“Labour will reverse this, driving up the proportion of crimes solved by reducing barriers to bringing charges, cutting b…”
Labour will streamline the charging process for domestic abuse cases in high-performing police forces.
“We will make it easier for high-performing police forces to charge domestic abuse suspects to speed up the process.”
Labour will deploy Associate Prosecutors on suitable cases to increase prosecutorial capacity and reduce court backlogs.
“As an initial step to address the courts backlog, Labour will ensure more prosecutors are available by allowing Associat…”
Labour will strengthen victim protections by expanding the Victims' Commissioner's powers and improving victim access to information and support.
“We will introduce new protections for victims of crime and persistent antisocial behaviour, by increasing the powers of …”
Labour will conduct a comprehensive review of sentencing guidelines to modernise them.
“Labour will carry out a review of sentencing to ensure it is brought up to date.”
Labour commits to use all available powers to construct new prisons to address overcrowding.
“Labour recognises that prisons are of national importance and therefore will use all relevant powers to build the prison…”
Labour will enhance prisoner access to education and work activities, and establish pre-release planning to reduce reoffending.
“Labour will act to reduce reoffending. We will work with prisons to improve offenders' access to purposeful activity, su…”
Labour will facilitate partnerships between prisons, employers, and voluntary organisations to support ex-offender employment.
“We will support prisons to link up with local employers and the voluntary sector to get ex-offenders into work.”
Labour will identify and support children of imprisoned offenders to prevent them entering the criminal justice system.
“We will ensure that those young people are identified and offered support to break the cycle.”
Labour will review probation governance structures and explore devolved management models.
“Labour will conduct a strategic review of probation governance, including considering the benefits of devolved models.”
Labour commits to implement findings from the Infected Blood, Grenfell, and Covid-19 inquiries with expedited resolution.
“Labour will right this wrong, act on the findings of the Infected Blood Inquiry, and respond to the findings of the Gren…”
Labour will enact a law requiring public officials to be truthful in inquiries and provide legal aid to victims of state-related deaths.
“Labour will introduce a 'Hillsborough Law' which will place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities, …”
Labour will establish a dedicated Windrush Commissioner to ensure effective compensation and victim representation.
“We will ensure the victims of the appalling Windrush scandal have their voices heard and the compensation scheme is run …”
Labour will conduct an investigation or inquiry into the Orgreave events to establish the truth.
“Labour will also ensure, through an investigation or inquiry, that the truth about the events at Orgreave comes to light…”
Labour will review Universal Credit to improve work incentives and reduce poverty.
“Labour is committed to reviewing Universal Credit so that it makes work pay and tackles poverty.”
Labour commits to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce child poverty.
“Labour will develop an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty.”
Labour will introduce free breakfast clubs in all primary schools, protect renters from eviction, reduce fuel poverty, ban zero-hours contracts, and improve employment support.
“We will take initial steps to confront poverty by introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school, protecting r…”
Labour commits to maintain the triple lock mechanism for state pension increases.
“Labour will retain the triple lock for the state pension.”
Labour will implement reforms to workplace pensions to improve outcomes for savers and pensioners.
“We will also adopt reforms to workplace pensions to deliver better outcomes for UK savers and pensioners.”
Labour will introduce new legislation to comprehensively reform private rental sector regulation.
“Labour will legislate where the Conservatives have failed, overhauling the regulation of the private rented sector.”
Labour will ban no-fault evictions, prevent renter exploitation, allow renters to challenge excessive rent increases, and extend building safety standards to private rentals.
“We will immediately abolish Section 21 'no fault' evictions, prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated a…”
Labour will strengthen building safety regulations to prevent future fire disasters like Grenfell.
“Labour will also take decisive action to improve buildings safety, including through regulation, to ensure we never agai…”
Labour will review leaseholder protections and accelerate remediation of unsafe buildings.
“We will review how to better protect leaseholders from costs and take steps to accelerate the pace of remediation across…”
Labour will hold those responsible for building safety failures financially accountable for remediation.
“We will put a renewed focus on ensuring those responsible for the building safety crisis pay to put it right.”
Labour commits to abolish the leasehold system.
“Labour will act where the Conservatives have failed and finally bring the feudal leasehold system to an end.”
Labour will implement Law Commission recommendations on leasehold reform, enfranchisement, and commonhold conversion.
“We will enact the package of Law Commission proposals on leasehold enfranchisement, right to manage and commonhold.”
Labour will prohibit new leasehold flat sales and make commonhold the standard tenure for new properties.
“We will take further steps to ban new leasehold flats and ensure commonhold is the default tenure.”
Labour will regulate and control ground rent charges in the private rental sector.
“We will tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges.”
Labour will address unfair maintenance costs and exploitative practices on private housing estates.
“We will act to bring the injustice of 'fleecehold' private housing estates and unfair maintenance costs to an end.”
Labour will create a comprehensive cross-government homelessness strategy in partnership with local authorities.
“Labour will develop a new cross-government strategy, working with Mayors and Councils across the country, to put Britain…”
Labour will establish 3,000 new primary school-based nurseries to expand government-funded childcare hours.
“As an initial step, Labour will open an additional 3,000 nurseries through upgrading space in primary schools, to delive…”
Labour will review and reform parental leave policies to better support working families.
“Labour will review the parental leave system, so it best supports working families, within our first year in government.”
Labour will enhance support for children in care through various placements and strengthen social care regulation.
“Labour will work with local government to support children in care, including through kinship, foster care, and adoption…”
Labour will implement a unified data-sharing system across public services to improve support for children and families.
“Labour will improve data sharing across services, with a single unique identifier, to better support children and famili…”
Labour will remove VAT exemptions and business rates relief for private schools to fund state school investment.
“Labour will end the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools to invest in our state schools.”