The party will establish licensing and age restrictions for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.
“We will introduce a new licensing scheme and age limits for non-surgical cosmetic procedures, ensuring services are admi…”
The party commits to supporting palliative care and hospice services.
“Debates on assisted dying should never distract from the importance of delivering high-quality palliative care services …”
The party will provide comprehensive compensation to infected blood scandal victims and affected persons.
“We will pay comprehensive compensation to those infected and those affected by this scandal, accepting the principles re…”
The party will provide £210,000 interim payments to infected blood scandal victims.
“We will also give a further £210,000 interim payment to living infected beneficiaries – those registered with existing i…”
The party will study and respond to the infected blood scandal inquiry recommendations.
“A scandal like this must never be allowed to happen again, so we will study the Inquiry's wide-ranging recommendations a…”
The party will recruit 8,000 additional police officers for neighbourhood policing in every ward.
“Give every neighbourhood an additional police officer by recruiting 8,000 more police officers to patrol communities and…”
The party will provide police with new powers and technology including facial recognition and knife seizure authority.
“Back the police, by giving officers new powers and tools to catch criminals, including technology like facial recognitio…”
The party will introduce licensing for specialist police roles, continuous vetting, and enhanced collaboration between crime and counter-terrorism agencies.
“Restore public trust in policing. We will license police officers for specialist roles, as we do already for firearms of…”
The party will introduce Martyn's Law requiring premises to take proportionate measures to prepare for terrorist attacks.
“We will urgently introduce Martyn's Law, in tribute to Martyn Hett, who was tragically killed alongside 21 others in the…”
The party will expand community payback and electronic tagging as sentencing options.
“We will toughen up community sentencing by increasing the use of community payback and electronic tagging, so criminals …”
The party will fund nationwide rollout of Hotspot Policing to reduce anti-social behaviour.
“We will fund every police force to roll out Hotspot Policing, which has cut anti-social behaviour by up to 50% in some a…”
The party will ban SIM farms and cold calls on financial products to combat fraud.
“We will keep turning the tide against fraudsters. In the last year we have reduced fraud by 13%, including through our n…”
The party will create new criminal offences for drink spiking, deepfake creation, and non-consensual intimate image taking.
“We will legislate to create new offences for spiking, the creation of sexualised deepfake images and taking intimate ima…”
The party will introduce a mandatory 25-year prison sentence for domestic murders with new aggravating factors.
“We will toughen sentencing for murders that take place within the context of domestic abuse with new aggravating factors…”
The party will provide sentencing leniency for those who kill domestic abusers.
“Those who kill their domestic abusers will not face the same starting point.”
The party will review homicide sentencing to close loopholes allowing lenient sentences.
“This will be accompanied by a review of homicide sentencing, looking to close loopholes that allow some killers to get o…”
The party will make 'rough sex' an aggravating factor in murder sentencing.
“We will introduce an aggravating factor for murders that happen in the context of 'rough sex', so it is never used as an…”
The party will implement a new rape investigation model and pre-recorded cross-examination for victims in all Crown courts.
“We have increased rape prosecutions by 56% since 2010 and we will ensure rape victims get the justice and support they d…”
The party will consider recommendations from the Independent Review of Pornography and implement safeguards.
“We will carefully consider the recommendations of Baroness Bertin's Independent Review of Pornography and ensure we have…”
The party will make life imprisonment without parole mandatory for heinous murderers and require serious sexual offenders to serve full sentences.
“We will toughen sentencing for the worst offenders. We have already ended Labour's automatic halfway release for violent…”
The party will increase sentences for knife crime, grooming gangs, and retail worker assaults, and combat organised crime use of technology.
“We will toughen sentences for knife crime, grooming gangs and assaults against retail workers and combat the ability of …”
The party will implement additional measures targeting prolific offenders.
“We will prioritise further measures to crack down on hyper-prolific offenders.”
The party will give judges power to impose increased sentences for offenders who fail to attend hearings.
“We will empower judges to require offenders to attend hearings or face an increased sentence.”
The party will maintain the joint enterprise doctrine to hold accomplices accountable.
“We will stand firmly behind the legal doctrine of joint enterprise meaning that those who assist in crimes, from the get…”
The party will build four new prisons to complete a 20,000-place prison expansion by 2030.
“We will build four new prisons, completing our programme of 20,000 new prison places by 2030.”
The party will remove EU-era regulations and streamline planning to facilitate prison construction.
“We will make it easier to build prisons in appropriate places by scrapping legacy EU rules and streamlining the planning…”
The party will increase deportations of foreign national offenders through expanded removal schemes and prisoner transfer agreements.
“We will remove more Foreign National Offenders by increasing removals under the Early Removal Scheme and negotiating mor…”
The party will continue the ban on prisoner voting.
“We will maintain the ban on prisoners voting from jail.”
The party will invest in rehabilitation services and implement a ten-year drugs plan to reduce reoffending.
“We will turn criminals away from the cycle of reoffending, investing in rehabilitative services such as drug treatment, …”
The party will establish a permanent Independent Public Advocate to support victims of major disasters.
“Our Victims and Prisoners Act ensures victims are protected and supported, including that those affected by major disast…”
The party will expand legal aid for inquests related to major incidents and terrorist attacks.
“We will expand the provision of legal aid at inquests related to major incidents where the Independent Public Advocate i…”
The party will implement mandatory reporting provisions from the Criminal Justice Bill.
“We will bring the mandatory reporting provisions of the Criminal Justice Bill into force as soon as possible.”
The party will create a redress scheme for institutional child sexual abuse victims.
“We will design a redress scheme for the victims of child sexual abuse in institutional settings that reflects their need…”
The party will include grooming gang victims in the redress scheme and issue a national apology.
“We will ensure this includes the victims of grooming gangs and make a national apology to grooming gang victims.”
The party will restrict sex offenders from changing their names.
“We will ensure sex offenders cannot evade justice or conceal their identity by restricting sex offenders from changing t…”
The party will reduce court backlogs by maintaining Nightingale courts and funding additional sitting days.
“We will cut the Covid court backlog by keeping open Nightingale courtrooms, funding sitting days and investing in court …”
The party will digitise court processes and expand remote hearing capabilities.
“And we will continue to digitise court processes and expand the use of remote hearings.”
The party will fund 100 criminal law pupillages and maintain legal aid access.
“We will match fund 100 criminal law pupillages to speed up justice for victims and will continue to ensure access to jus…”
The party will expand Pathfinder Courts and mediation vouchers for family law disputes.
“We will expand our Pathfinder Courts pilot in family court proceedings and continue mediation vouchers to help more fami…”
The party will support the legal services sector through an Arbitration Bill.
“We will support our world class legal services sector, including through an Arbitration Bill.”
The party will legislate to enable third-party funding of litigation for individuals and small businesses.
“We will help individuals and small businesses bring cases against wealthier opponents with legislation to support third …”
The party will deny government funding and official access to groups promoting violence, hatred, or intolerance.
“That is why we unveiled a new extremism definition under which certain groups that promote an ideology based on violence…”
The party will introduce additional protest restrictions including bans on face coverings, pyrotechnics, and climbing on war memorials.
“We have passed tough new laws to curb disruptive protests. Our Public Order Act 2023 gave the police new powers to inter…”
The party will strengthen police powers to prevent protests by considering cumulative impact.
“We will strengthen police powers to prevent protests or marches that pose a risk of serious disorder, by allowing police…”
The party will ban protests outside schools.
“We will ban protests outside schools to stop mobs from intimidating teachers and children.”
The party will protect teachers promoting British values from blasphemy accusations.
“We will always support teachers to uphold and promote fundamental British values and ensure they are protected from accu…”
The party will require police and prosecutors to publish guidance on statements and symbols that may constitute offences in protest contexts.
“We will place a duty on the police and prosecutors to publish regular guidance on the statements, chants or symbols, for…”
The party will explore mechanisms for protest organisers to reimburse policing costs.
“We will explore ways for the police to recover some of the costs of policing disruptive protests from the groups that or…”
The party will provide security for elected representatives.
“We will also ensure our elected representatives get the protection needed to represent their constituents without fear.”
The party will provide £54 million for Jewish community security and fund antisemitism education.
“We will not tolerate antisemitic hatred in any form. We have pledged £54 million for the Community Security Trust to giv…”