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The Liberal Democrats and Restore Britain across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
Lib Dems
Safe and legal routes, and faster decisions
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Emphasises safe and legal routes and faster decision-making, arguing deterrence-first policy has repeatedly failed to reduce crossings.
Restore
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
Lib Dems
£9.4bn for care and the NHS from bank and capital gains taxes
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A £9.4bn package for social care and the NHS, funded by higher taxes on banks and tighter capital gains rules for the very wealthy.
Check itLib Dem social care proposals examined — The ConversationRestore
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
Lib Dems
Free personal care for everyone who needs it
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Free personal care for everyone who needs it, costed at £2.7bn a year by 2028–29 and funded by reversing tax cuts given to the large banks since 2016 — so that nobody has to sell their home to pay for personal care. Alongside it a Carer's Minimum Wage set £2 above the minimum wage, a Royal College of Care Workers, and Carer's Allowance raised by £20 a week with eligibility extended to anyone earning under £183 a week.
Analysts have welcomed the seriousness of the reform while questioning whether the funding stream covers the long-run cost.
Check itEd Davey launches plan for free personal care — Liberal DemocratsRestore
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
Lib Dems
Council-led building; empty homes back into use
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Expanding council-led housebuilding, bringing empty homes back into use, and requiring developers to deliver the affordable homes they have been permitted to build.
Restore
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
Lib Dems
Restore community policing; scrap Police and Crime Commissioners
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Restoring community policing, and scrapping Police and Crime Commissioners in favour of local Police Boards made up of councillors and local representatives, with the savings put into frontline policing. Recent party papers also defend trial by jury against proposals to restrict it.
Check itStronger Communities, Safer Citizens — Liberal DemocratsRestore
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
Lib Dems
End sewage discharges by water companies
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Ending sewage discharges by water companies has been the party's most prominent environmental campaign.
Restore
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
Lib Dems
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
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
Lib Dems
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
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
Lib Dems
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.
Restore
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
Lib Dems
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.
Check itRestore Britain — Wikipedia
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