Side by side
The Green Party of England and Wales and The Conservative and Unionist Party across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
Green
Expand safe routes; end hotel accommodation; oppose deterrence
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Opposes deterrence-based policy outright, favouring expanded safe and legal routes and an end to hotel-based asylum accommodation.
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.
Check itOur Borders Plan — ConservativesTax & the economy
Green
Wealth tax on assets over £10m; £15 minimum wage
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A wealth tax of 1% a year on individual assets above £10m and 2% above £1bn, which the party says would raise £15bn a year. Alongside it, a £15 minimum wage and a four-day working week.
Economists dispute wealth-tax yields of this size, pointing to valuation difficulty and behavioural response; the party treats the figure as its own costing.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryConservative
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 HomeNHS & social care
Green
More health spending; opposes private provision in the NHS
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Increased health spending forms part of the capital programme, with the party opposing private provision within the NHS.
Less detailed than its economic and environmental platform.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryConservative
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 AssociationHousing
Green
Social housing funded from the capital programme
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Social housing is funded from the same £90bn capital programme, alongside health and education — the party's answer to supply being public building rather than planning liberalisation.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryConservative
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 HomeCrime & justice
Green
Presumption against short sentences; divert rather than jail
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A presumption against custodial sentences under two years, with investment redirected to courts, diversion schemes and violence-reduction units rather than prison places. The party would restore youth services and community policing, repeal the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and the Public Order Act, abolish the Prevent programme, and decriminalise sex work.
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.
Check itConservative manifesto summary — Local Government AssociationEnergy & net zero
Green
£90bn a year capital spending; water, rail and energy in public hands
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Capital spending raised by £90bn a year by 2030, of which more than £70bn goes to the green transition. Water, rail and energy companies would be taken into public ownership.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryConservative
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 NewsEducation
Green
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.
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 LibraryDefence & foreign policy
Green
Cancel Trident and begin disarming, while staying in NATO
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Immediately begin dismantling Britain's nuclear weapons, cancelling Trident and banning nuclear-armed ships from UK waters, while continuing to recognise NATO's role in European security.
The combination of remaining in NATO while unilaterally disarming is the most contested element of the platform, since the alliance's strategic concept is explicitly nuclear.
Check itThe Green Party's defence plan — British BriefConservative
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 AssociationEurope & the constitution
Green
Rejoin the European Union
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Rejoining the European Union is party policy.
Check itPolanski outlines Green economic policy — AOL / PAConservative
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 — ConservativesMedia & culture
Green
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.
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.
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