The party will increase devolved administrations' involvement in developing work permit and student visa policy to reflect regional skills needs.
“Extend the participation of devolved administrations in the development of the evidence base for UK-wide policy on work …”
The party will enhance the powers of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.
“Strengthen the powers of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.”
The party commits to fully implementing the Windrush Lessons Learned Review without delay.
“Implement the Windrush Lessons Learned Review in full, without further delay.”
The party will make the Windrush compensation scheme independent of the Home Office to ensure victims receive entitled compensation.
“Ensure victims of the Windrush scandal get the compensation they are entitled to by making the compensation scheme indep…”
The party will repeal the 'Right to Rent' scheme that requires landlords to check immigration status.
“Repeal the Conservatives' discriminatory 'Right to Rent' scheme that turns landlords into border guards.”
The party will create a firewall preventing public agencies from sharing personal data with the Home Office for immigration enforcement and repeal the immigration exemption in data protection law.
“Establish a firewall to prevent public agencies from sharing personal information with the Home Office for the purposes …”
The party will improve access to immigration legal advice by making the legal aid system simpler, fairer and more generous.
“Expand access to immigration legal advice by making the legal aid system simpler, fairer and more generous, as set out i…”
The party will expand the UK Resettlement Scheme, create humanitarian travel permits, resettle unaccompanied child refugees, enable family reunion, and fund community sponsorship projects.
“Provide safe and legal routes to sanctuary for refugees by: Expanding and properly funding the UK Resettlement Scheme. C…”
The party will grant asylum to those fleeing violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity and end disbelief toward LGBT+ asylum seekers.
“Offering asylum to people fleeing the risk of violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identification, end…”
The party will cancel the Rwanda scheme and redirect savings to clear the asylum backlog.
“Cancel the Conservatives' unworkable Rwanda scheme and invest the savings in clearing the asylum backlog.”
The party will end child detention for immigration purposes and limit adult detention to 28 days as a last resort.
“End the detention of children for immigration purposes, and reduce detention for adults to an absolute last resort, with…”
The party will extend the move-on period for refugees from current levels to 60 days to allow preparation time.
“Increase the 'move-on' period for refugees to 60 days, providing vital time for new refugees to prepare for life in the …”
The party commits to defending the Human Rights Act and opposing any attempts to weaken or repeal it.
“Champion the Human Rights Act and resist any attempts to weaken or repeal it.”
The party will develop and implement a comprehensive Race Equality Strategy addressing inequalities across education, health, criminal justice and the economy.
“Develop and implement a comprehensive Race Equality Strategy to address deep inequalities, including in education, healt…”
The party will make misogyny a hate crime and provide police and prosecutors with resources and training to prevent and prosecute hate crimes.
“Make misogyny a hate crime and give police and prosecutors the resources and training they need to prevent and prosecute…”
The party will establish a right to flexible working for all and a right to work from home for disabled people unless significant business reasons prevent it.
“Give everyone a new right to flexible working and every disabled person the right to work from home if they want to, unl…”
The party commits to respecting and defending the rights of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
“Respect and defend the rights of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, including trans and non-binary…”
The party will ban all forms of conversion therapy and related practices.
“Ban all forms of conversion therapies and practices.”
The party will repeal anti-protest laws, restore protections for peaceful assembly, and ban live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies.
“Scrap the Conservatives' draconian anti-protest laws, restoring pre-existing protections for both peaceful assembly and …”
The party will uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, establish affordable legal assistance, introduce a Digital Bill of Rights, end bulk data collection, regulate biometric surveillance, and protect care experience as a characteristic.
“Defend hard-won British rights and freedoms by: Upholding the UK's commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights…”
The party will fully implement the Istanbul Convention, expand refuges and rape crisis centres, ensure sustainable funding for survivor services, and improve criminal justice support.
“Ensure that survivors of violence against women and girls and domestic abuse get the support they deserve by: Fully impl…”
The party will require social media companies to publish reports on actions taken to address online abuse against women, girls and other protected groups.
“Require social media companies to publish reports setting out the action they have taken to address online abuse against…”
The party will confront hate speech in public life and media, and fund protective security for vulnerable places of worship, schools and community centres.
“Stand up to hatred by: Exposing and confronting the stereotyping, demagoguery and hate speech in public life and the med…”
The party will recognise humanist marriages, reform wedding laws to give couples more choice, and extend legal rights to cohabiting couples.
“Expand the rights of couples by: Introducing legal recognition of humanist marriages. Implementing the Law Commission's …”
The party will protect reproductive autonomy, ensure access to reproductive healthcare, and enforce safe access zones around abortion clinics.
“Protect everyone's right to make independent decisions over their reproductive health without interference by the state …”
The party will end the gender price gap, provide free period products, expand affordable childcare, double Statutory Maternity Pay, and expand shared parental leave.
“Tackle the specific economic barriers facing women by: Ending the gender price gap so that women are not charged more th…”
The party will reform gender recognition by removing medical report requirements, recognising non-binary identities, and removing spousal veto.
“Reform the gender recognition process to remove the requirement for medical reports, recognise non-binary identities in …”
The party will require large employers to monitor and publish diversity data with targets, extend name-blind recruitment, improve public appointment diversity, and support neurodiversity in workplaces.
“Improve diversity in the workplace and public life by: Requiring large employers to monitor and publish data on gender, …”
The party will implement a comprehensive Race Equality Strategy addressing maternal mortality, Stop and Search, police diversity, Hostile Environment, Windrush, voter ID, candidate diversity and facial recognition.
“Implement a comprehensive Race Equality Strategy, including: Reducing the disproportionately high maternal mortality rat…”
The party will adopt accessibility standards, improve blue badge framework, incorporate UN disability rights convention, support disabled employment, introduce Adjustment Passports, and promote British Sign Language.
“Make it easier for disabled people to access public life, including the world of work, by: Adopting new accessibility st…”
The party will allow Parliament time to debate and vote on assisted dying legislation for terminally ill adults with strict safeguards.
“Give Parliament time to fully debate and vote on legislation on assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent ad…”
The party will introduce proportional representation using the Single Transferable Vote for electing MPs and local councillors in England.
“Ensure no politician can take you for granted, by introducing proportional representation by the Single Transferable Vot…”
The party will scrap voter ID requirements and grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote.
“Strengthen democratic rights and participation by scrapping the Conservatives' voter ID scheme and giving 16- and 17-yea…”
The party will enshrine the Ministerial Code in legislation to hold government ministers accountable.
“Finally hold Government Ministers to account for corruption and sleaze by enshrining the Ministerial Code in legislation…”
The party will reform the House of Lords to give it a proper democratic mandate.
“Reform the House of Lords with a proper democratic mandate.”
The party will devolve powers from Westminster, introduce a written constitution for a federal UK, and oppose Scottish independence.
“Transfer greater powers away from Westminster and Whitehall, introduce a written constitution for a federal United Kingd…”
The party will cap donations to political parties to reduce money in politics.
“Take big money out of politics by capping donations to political parties.”
The party will extend voting rights to 16-17 year-olds and settled EU citizens, require automatic voter registration, enable overseas voting, restore parliamentary power to call elections, require PM confidence votes, tackle Westminster harassment, require candidate diversity data, and establish citizens' assemblies.
“Reform our politics to put more power in people's hands by: Giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in UK general …”
The party will make protecting UK democratic processes from threats and interference a national security priority.
“Make it a national security priority to protect the UK's democratic processes from any threats or interference.”
The party will compensate victims of Post Office and Infected Blood scandals, establish an Office of the Whistleblower, and introduce a statutory duty of candour for public officials.
“Ensure justice for the victims of scandals and prevent future scandals, including by: Providing full and fair compensati…”
The party will make the Adviser on Ministers' Interests independent with power to initiate investigations and statutory appointment by Parliament.
“Make the role of the Adviser on Ministers' Interests truly independent by: Empowering them to initiate their own investi…”
The party will require Prime Ministers to serve at least one year before accessing the Public Duty Cost Allowance fund.
“Introduce new rules to ensure that a Prime Minister must have served for at least one year before becoming eligible to a…”
The party will require annual anti-sleaze training for all ministers.
“Ensure that Ministers receive annual training to prevent sleaze.”
The party will establish a rigorous, transparent and independent process for appointing significant public roles with parliamentary select committee confirmation votes.
“Establish a rigorous, transparent and independent process to appoint significant public roles, involving a confirmatory …”
The party will align reporting standards for Ministers' Interests with MPs' interests, requiring more frequent publication.
“Bring reporting standards for the List of Ministers' Interests in line with the House of Commons Register of Members' In…”
The party will strengthen and expand the lobbying register.
“Strengthen and expand the lobbying register.”
The party pledges to provide full and fair compensation to victims of the Horizon Post Office and Infected Blood scandals without delay.
“Providing full and fair compensation to all victims of the Horizon Post Office scandal and the Infected Blood scandal as…”
The party commits to establishing a new Office of the Whistleblower, creating new legal protections for whistleblowers, and raising public awareness of their rights.
“Protecting whistleblowers by establishing a new Office of the Whistleblower, creating new legal protections, and promoti…”
The party pledges to introduce the Hillsborough Law, imposing a statutory duty of candour on police officers and public officials during inquiries and investigations.
“Introducing the Hillsborough Law: a statutory duty of candour on police officers and all public officials, including dur…”
The party commits to requiring all Ministers' instant-messaging conversations involving government business to be recorded departmentally and to publish records of all lobbying via instant messages, emails, letters and phone calls in quarterly transparency releases.
“End the scandal of 'Government by WhatsApp' by: Requiring that all Ministers' instant-messaging conversations involving …”