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The relationship with the EU, membership of international courts, and how power is distributed within the UK. Parties are ordered left to right by our placement on the spectrum. Each line is the position in brief — open in full for the detail and where it is contested.
- Green
-7 on our scale
Rejoin the European Union
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Rejoining the European Union is party policy.
Check itPolanski outlines Green economic policy — AOL / PA - Labour
-3 on our scale
Closer co-operation, not rejoining; devolution at home
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Having previously supported rejoining the EU, Burnham now says he will avoid a "permanent rut" of that argument, seeking closer co-operation on defence, illegal migration and economic security instead. Domestically his defining project is devolution: a "No 10 in the North" based in Manchester, and water, transport and housing brought under stronger public control short of full nationalisation.
Check itAndy Burnham's main policy pledges — Yahoo News - Lib Dems
-2 on our scale
Repair the relationship with Europe; a new Magna Carta
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The most consistently pro-European of the six: repairing what Davey calls Britain's "broken relationship" with Europe, tearing down trade barriers and fixing the "botched" Brexit deal. Domestically he has called for "a new Magna Carta" to constrain executive power.
- Conservative
+5 on our scale
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 — Conservatives - Reform
+8 on our scale
Leave the ECHR immediately
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A Reform government would leave the European Convention on Human Rights immediately, which the party presents as the mechanism that would let it deport people without legal challenge. Farage has framed withdrawal as the natural sequel to Brexit.
Legal scholars dispute the premise: the Convention does not dictate a state's immigration policy, and states set their own. The UK would also become the only European country outside it besides Russia and Belarus.
Check itPolicies — Reform UK - Restore
+9 on our scale
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.
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