Instead, they keep threatening to rip up the UK’s Human Rights Act, which protects our fundamental British freedoms.
Liberal Democrats champion the freedom, dignity and wellbeing of every individual.
We will combat all forms of prejudice and discrimination, wherever they exist, including where intersectionality means individuals face particular disadvantages.
We believe that the UK’s rich diversity is one of its greatest strengths.
We will celebrate that diversity and ensure it is better reflected throughout public life.
We will apply the principles of openness, transparency and accountability to tackle institutional biases, promote equality and hold power to account.
Make misogyny a hate crime
Give everyone a new right to flexible working
and immediately halt the use of live facial recognition surveillance by the police and private companies.
In addition, we will: Defend hard-won British rights and freedoms by: Upholding the UK’s commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights and resisting any attempts to withdraw from it.
Introducing a Digital Bill of Rights to protect everyone’s rights online, including the rights to privacy, free expression, and participation without being subjected to harassment and abuse.
Ensuring sustainable funding for services to support survivors of domestic abuse, with a particular focus on community-based and specialist ‘by and for’ services.
Ensuring that survivors are properly supported within the criminal justice system, as set out in chapter 11.
Implementing the Law Commission’s proposals to reform wedding laws, giving couples more choice over how and where their wedding takes place,
while respecting religious beliefs and practices.
and ensure access to high-quality reproductive healthcare, including enforcing safe access zones around abortion clinics and hospitals.
Ending the Conservatives’ Hostile Environment, implementing the Windrush Lessons Learned Review
and repealing the Conservatives’ discriminatory ‘Right to Rent’ law, as set out in chapter 18.
Scrapping the Conservatives’ voter ID scheme and requiring political parties to publish candidate diversity data, as set out in chapter 20.
Make it easier for disabled people to access public life, including the world of work, by:
Adopting new accessibility standards for public spaces.
Raising employers’ awareness of the Access to Work scheme and simplifying and speeding up the application process.
Introducing ‘Adjustment Passports’ to record the adjustments, modifications and equipment a disabled person has received,
and ensuring that Access to Work support and equipment stays with the person if they change jobs.
Building on the British Sign Language
Act by increasing the use of BSL in government communications and working collaboratively with the BSL Alliance to promote and facilitate the use of BSL.
We want to ensure that your voice is heard – and we want to transfer power back to the people.
The shambolic Conservative Government has created a crisis for democracy in this country, with their cronyism, rule-breaking and constant sleaze scandals.
Successive Conservative Prime Ministers have acted without integrity and treated Parliament and the people with disdain.
It is a symptom of a broken political system, which enables the Government to take families up and down the country for granted.
It is clear that we need a political system with fair representation, so that politics is made to work for you again.
Liberal Democrats want to begin to repair the damage that has been done by the constant stream of Conservative sleaze, and to end the era of neglect.
Strengthen democratic rights and participation by scrapping the Conservatives’ voter ID scheme
Transfer greater powers away from Westminster and Whitehall,
and oppose a second Scottish independence referendum and independence.
and to anyone else who has lived in the UK for at least five years and has the right to stay permanently.
Introducing a legal requirement for local authorities to inform citizens of the steps they must take to be successfully registered with far greater efforts in particular to register underrepresented groups,
and ensuring that the UK has an automatic system of inclusion in elections
Enabling all UK citizens living abroad to vote for MPs in separate overseas constituencies,
and to participate in UK referendums.
Taking a zero-tolerance approach to harassment and bullying in Westminster
and legislating to empower constituents to recall MPs who commit sexual harassment.
Establishing national and local citizens’ assemblies to ensure that the public are fully engaged in finding solutions to the greatest challenges we face, such as tackling the climate emergency and the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms by the state.
Ensure justice for the victims of scandals and prevent future scandals, including by:
and the Infected Blood scandal as quickly as possible.
Ensuring that a record of all lobbying of Ministers via instant messages, emails, letters and phone calls is published as part of quarterly transparency releases.
Reform the UK and strengthen our family of nations around the principles of federalism, working in cooperation and partnership, including by:
and put Cardiff Airport on a fair playing field with regional airports in England.
Work constructively with the Northern Ireland Executive to build a permanently peaceful Northern Ireland,
with a stable devolved government