Pledges
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Labour pledged to recognise a Palestinian state as part of a renewed peace process leading to a two-state solution. Labour also pledged to restore development spending to 0.7% of GNI when fiscal circumstances allowed.
Labour pledged to crack down on anti-social behaviour. The manifesto included: Respect Orders for persistent adult offenders. Action against public drinking and drug use. Requiring vandals and fly-tippers to clean up damage. Scrapping effective immunity for...
Labour pledged to force water companies to clean up rivers and cut sewage pollution through stronger regulation and penalties. A related outcome pledge was to halve water companies' sewage pollution by the end of the decade.
Labour pledged to support early years by expanding nursery provision, including more than 3,000 nurseries. The later Plan for Change also included a school-readiness milestone for five-year-olds.
Labour pledged to introduce free breakfast clubs in every primary school as part of its opportunity and child-development agenda.
Labour pledged to recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects and shortage areas. The pledge was to be funded partly by ending tax breaks for private schools.
Labour pledged to halve serious violent crime and halve knife crime within a decade. The manifesto also promised: Tougher controls on zombie knives, ninja swords and machetes. Mandatory Youth Offending Team referral plans for young people caught with knives.
Labour pledged to recruit 8,500 additional mental health staff. The manifesto also linked this to earlier intervention for children and young people, including Young Futures hubs connected to mental health, youth work and careers support.
Labour pledged to reform primary care and social care. The manifesto included pledges to: Train thousands more GPs. Bring back the family doctor. End the 8am scramble for GP appointments. Create a National Care Service underpinned by national standards.
Labour pledged a dentistry rescue plan. The manifesto included: 700,000 more urgent dental appointments. Recruitment of new dentists in the areas most in need.
Labour pledged to return to NHS performance standards, including the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard for non-urgent consultant-led treatment.
Labour pledged to deliver an extra two million NHS operations, scans and appointments per year. This was commonly described as 40,000 more appointments every week, using evenings and weekends and incentivising staff to deliver additional capacity.
Labour pledged a Warm Homes Plan to upgrade homes, cut bills and improve energy efficiency. The manifesto referred to: £6.6 billion of investment. An ambition to upgrade five million homes. Higher private-rented energy-efficiency standards by 2030.
Labour pledged to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the parliament. The manifesto linked this to: Planning reform. Mandatory housing targets. Additional planning officers. New towns. A major increase in social and affordable housebuilding.
Labour pledged to abolish non-dom status and replace it with a modern scheme for people genuinely in the UK for a short period. The manifesto also promised to: Close offshore trust inheritance tax routes. Tax private equity carried interest more fairly...
Labour pledged a NATO-first defence policy. The manifesto included: Commitment to the UK nuclear deterrent. Support for Ukraine. Commitment to AUKUS. A Strategic Defence Review within the first year. A path to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence.
Labour pledged to reform the House of Lords. The manifesto included: Removing the remaining hereditary peers. Introducing a mandatory retirement age. Creating a participation requirement for Lords members.
Labour pledged to clean up politics and restore standards in public life. The manifesto included: An independent Ethics and Integrity Commission. Stronger post-government rules. Allowing the independent adviser to initiate investigations. Modernising...
Labour pledged to: Fix an additional one million potholes per year. Support bus franchising and municipal ownership in England. Accelerate EV charge-point rollout. Restore the 2030 phase-out date for new petrol and diesel cars.
Labour pledged to implement its Plan to Make Work Pay. The manifesto included: Legislation within 100 days. Banning exploitative zero-hours contracts. Ending fire and rehire. Basic rights from day one. Strengthening trade union rights. Creating a Single...
