Throughout the 2024 General Election Labour promised not to hike taxes on working people.

But within four months of taking office they broke that promise, hiking taxes by £40 billion in their first Budget of Broken Promises.

Including a £25 billion Jobs Tax that's made it more expensive for employers to take on staff.

In November 2025 Rachel Reeves came back for more, with a further £26 billion in tax hikes on savings, pensions, houses and business rates.

The Conservatives are the only party with a clear plan to cut spending, reduce the deficit and lower taxes.

As well as breaking their tax promises, in July 2024 Labour broke faith with pensioners and snatched Winter Fuel Payments away from millions of poor and vulnerable pensioners.

330,000 people signed the petition to save Winter Fuel Payments, and this was backed up by Conservative campaigning in Parliament.

In May 2025, Keir Starmer U-turned. But he never apologised for the distress his choice imposed upon the nation's elderly.

It was a welcome U-turn. But, as is often the case, it would have been so much better if Keir Starmer got it right the first time.

In October 2024 Labour broke faith with farmers and imposed a Family Farms Tax on Britain’s rural communities.

A tax that would have forced many farmers to sell up to pay a crippling inheritance tax bill.

After 14 months of campaigning with farmers across the country, the Conservatives forced Labour into a partial U-turn.

Labour may have increased the threshold for this tax, sparing many farms from its impact. But the fight for full repeal continues.

Despite victims calling for one, Keir Starmer used his supermajority to block a grooming gangs inquiry for six months.

The Conservatives worked with victims and campaigners to force him into a U-turn, with an inquiry announced in June 2025. The fight for genuine justice remains.

Rather than work with Kemi Badenoch to deliver welfare savings in the national interest, in July 2025 Keir Starmer caved to his own backbenchers and abandoned incredibly moderate welfare reforms.

This episode, along with so many others, proves that Keir Starmer does not have the backbone to make tough decisions.

Only the Conservatives have a clear plan to reform welfare, get people back into work and save taxpayers money.

Keir Starmer caved to his backbenchers again in November 2025 and scrapped the two-child benefit cap. Costing taxpayers £14 billion.

The two-child benefit cap says there’s a limit – a point at which it’s simply not fair – to make taxpayers fund choices they themselves cannot afford.

It is fair. It is fiscally responsible. And with welfare spending already spiralling out of control, it is necessary.

Keir Starmer failed to stand up to his own backbenchers and keep the two-child benefit cap. Instead of controlling welfare spending and reinforcing the principle that work should pay, scrapping the cap will only push costs even higher.

In September 2025 Labour announced plans to introduce mandatory Digital ID.

This was another plan Labour didn’t think through.

And after months of Conservative pressure, including over 50,000 petition signatures, Labour have announced in January 2026 that their Digital ID would not be mandatory.

Keir Starmer and his frontbench used WASPI women as a political prop to win votes.

Now Labour are in government WASPI women have been betrayed, like so many others Labour promised the world to.

Labour initially dithered and delayed on much needed defence spending. It was only after Kemi Badenoch forced them into action that they announced a commitment to 3% of GDP on defence.

In November 2025 Rachel Reeves announced huge increases to business rates for pubs.

MPs went back to their constituencies, and got a very frosty reception from landlords.

Labour did partially U-turn on this plan, but the vast majority of pubs will still be paying far more in business rates under Labour. Many will sadly be forced to close their doors for good.

Only the Conservatives have a plan for Stronger High Streets, with 100% business rates relief for 250,000 high street shops and pubs.

Labour’s Unemployment Act will impose 330 pages of red tape on employers and opens the door to waves of low turnout, short notice strikes.

But the Conservatives in the House of Lords succeeded in forcing one crucial change; the removal of the absurd provision that would have allowed a worker hired in the morning to take their employer to a tribunal in the afternoon.

While other parties carp from the sidelines, the Conservatives in Parliament are fighting for businesses struggling thanks to Labour’s tax hikes and red tape.

Rachel Reeves promised not to freeze personal income tax thresholds beyond 2026. But in her November 2025 Budget she U-turned and broke this promise. Over the course of this Parliament this broken promise will cost workers thousands in extra taxes.

In March 2025 the Sentencing Council proposed absurd guidelines that would have handed harsher sentences to people based on ethnicity, religion, sex and cultural background.

The Conservatives immediately highlighted how damaging this would be. We showcased how this would undermine faith in the rule of law

After this pressure, we forced the government into another U-turn and the guidelines were suspended

The Conservatives are the only Party with a plan to ensure this doesn't happen again. We would abolish the Sentecing Council and return the power to set sentencing policy to ministers who in turn are accountable to Parliament

After Kemi Badenoch announced the Conservatives would restrict social media to those aged 16 and over, Labour announced a consultation of their own into this proposal.

In January 2026 Labour shamefully attempted to cancel elections in 30 local areas due to take place in May.

But like nearly every decision the Prime Minister makes, he U-turned on it. This time after just 25 days.

This is predictable chaos from a useless government that cannot make basic decisions. Even on the basics of our democracy they are causing confusion and chaos.