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The Conservative and Unionist Party and Restore Britain across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
Conservative
Ban asylum claims from illegal entrants; remove 150,000 a year
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The Borders Plan would impose a total ban on asylum claims from anyone entering illegally and create a Removals Force tasked with removing 150,000 people a year. Indefinite Leave to Remain would require ten years rather than five, and would be refused to anyone who had claimed benefits, used social housing, or was not a net fiscal contributor.
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Abolish asylum; deport everyone here illegally within three years
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The furthest-reaching platform of the six: abolition of the asylum system and what the party calls the largest deportation programme in Britain's history, set out in a 113-page paper, Mass Deportations: Legitimacy, Legality and Logistics, which proposes removing everyone in the UK illegally within three years. The overall target is net-negative immigration.
Legal scholars and migration researchers question whether removals on this scale are achievable within any Western legal framework, and the paper's own title concedes legitimacy and legality are open questions.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaTax & the economy
Conservative
Scrap stamp duty; £23bn of welfare savings
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A stated "fully funded" plan to scrap stamp duty, and £23bn of savings from welfare — framed as ending Britain's "welfare addiction" and building a high-growth, low-immigration economy in which reform expands the domestic workforce rather than immigration filling the gap.
Check itWhy only the Conservatives can fix Britain's problems — Conservative HomeRestore
Libertarian outlook: smaller state, lower taxes
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The party describes its economic outlook as libertarian, favouring a smaller state and lower taxes.
No costed fiscal programme published.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaNHS & social care
Conservative
92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors
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92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors in the NHS than in 2023 by the end of the Parliament.
From the 2024 general election manifesto, which remains the party's most recent full platform; Badenoch has not published a replacement, and has since abandoned the net zero target that manifesto contained.
Check itConservative manifesto summary — Local Government AssociationRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Housing
Conservative
Scrapping stamp duty is the main housing measure
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Scrapping stamp duty is the party's principal published housing-market measure.
No detailed building or supply programme published under the current leadership.
Check itWhy only the Conservatives can fix Britain's problems — Conservative HomeRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Crime & justice
Conservative
8,000 more neighbourhood police; 20,000 prison places
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8,000 more neighbourhood police officers with a named officer for every community, mandatory whole-life orders for the worst murders including those involving sadistic or sexual conduct, full custodial terms served for rape and serious sexual offences, and 20,000 additional prison places.
Also from the 2024 manifesto rather than a new platform under the current leadership.
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A referendum on restoring the death penalty
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A referendum on restoring the death penalty. Possession of pepper spray would be legalised and "reasonable force" in home defence expanded.
Capital punishment is prohibited by Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the UK has ratified; restoring it would require withdrawal.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaEnergy & net zero
Conservative
Repeal the Climate Change Act; net zero by 2050 unreachable
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Repealing the Climate Change Act. Badenoch argues net zero by 2050 cannot be reached "without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us".
Check itNet zero by 2050 'impossible', says Badenoch — BBC NewsRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Education
Conservative
Criticises VAT on school fees but will not reverse it
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The party has criticised the imposition of VAT on private school fees but has not committed to reversing it in government.
No broader schools programme published under the current leadership.
Check itVAT on private school fees — House of Commons LibraryRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Defence & foreign policy
Conservative
Defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030
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Defence spending raised to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 on what the party called a fully funded path — presented as the largest sustained increase since the Cold War, keeping the UK the largest defence power in Europe.
2024 manifesto commitment; not restated as a costed pledge under the current leadership.
Check itConservative manifesto summary — Local Government AssociationRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Europe & the constitution
Conservative
Leave the ECHR; repeal the Human Rights Act
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Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and the anti-trafficking convention ECAT, and repealing the Human Rights Act. Badenoch has made this a condition of candidate selection: only those backing withdrawal from the ECHR and the scrapping of net zero are approved to stand.
Check itOur Borders Plan — ConservativesRestore
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Media & culture
Conservative
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Restore
Defund the BBC; ban the burqa; end halal and kosher slaughter
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Withdrawal of BBC funding. Halal and kosher slaughter would be abolished, and the burqa and niqab banned in public.
The religious-slaughter and clothing measures would affect Jewish and Muslim practice; the party frames them as animal-welfare and integration measures.
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