‍Taxation 

We have opposed Labour’s damaging tax rises on working people, leading the fight against Labour's terrible Jobs Tax, which will hit employers, struggling businesses, charities, and public services.

We have also committed to reversing this Labour government’s cruel and unnecessary taxes on ambition, including:

• The Family Farms Tax, because we stand with farmers.
• The Family Business Tax, because we stand with entrepreneurs.
• The Education Tax, because we stand with parents.

Welfare

We are clear that the spiralling welfare bill is unaffordable for British taxpayers. We have:

• Voted to defend the two-child benefit cap, because people on benefits should have to make the same choices as everyone else.
• Proposed reforms to bring welfare spending under control, including bringing back proper assessments to make sure only those that need benefits can access them.
• Called out wasteful spending on programmes within Motability, being clear that people should not get mobility payments for things like drug misuse, ADHD and obesity.

Immigration

We have tabled the landmark ‘Deportation Bill’, which sets out a clear vision for border control under a Conservative Government, with tough, practical measures designed to end abuse, enforce the law, and put British interests first. Underpinning all of this will be a credible and effective deterrent.

Our Deportation Bill would: 

• Introduce a strict annual cap on migration – Ensuring migration levels are determined by the British people.
• Double the residency requirement for Indefinite Leave to Remain from five to ten years – with a further five years to gain a precious British passport. British citizenship is a privilege to be earned, not a right to be claimed.
• Create new powers to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain – Allowing us to remove those who have become a burden to the UK. 
• Disapply the Human Rights Act from all immigration-related matters – Preventing foreign nationals from exploiting our court system.
• Increase the salary threshold for work visas to £38,700.
• Introduce powers to deport all foreign criminals – If you break the law here, you go home. No one who commits crime should be able to get Leave to Remain or citizenship.

Law and Order

We have taken a no-nonsense approach to law and order, refusing to allow criminals free reign and being clear that prison works.

We have:

• Forced Labour to U-turn on disgraceful plans for two-tier justice.  
• Voted for tougher sentences for crimes like tool theft and fly tipping.
• Proposed stricter conditions in prisons, including arming prison officers.
• Called for police officers who enforce the law to be protected from witch hunts.

Energy and Security

The Conservatives have told the truth that the 2050 Net Zero target is impossible.

Our work is underway, looking into how we can deliver cheap and clean energy, without bankrupting businesses, without eye-watering bills for households, and in a way which reduces our dependency on hostile or unstable countries.  

We have also opposed plans to force green targets on individuals and businesses by:

• Voting against the Deposit Return Scheme, which will push up the prices of multipack goods.    
• Pushing for a delay on the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, which drives manufacturers to make electric cars.
• Supporting Oil and Gas extraction in the North Sea, stopping us being dependent on foreign fossil fuels.
• Opposing the Energy Profits Levy, promising that a future Conservative Government will not have this levy but will instead back our energy industry to create jobs and growth.

Health and Social Care

We have pushed for more money to reach the NHS frontline, calling out big bonuses for managers and warning the Government to get a grip on ever-increasing pay demands.

We warned Labour that caving in and giving resident doctors a huge pay rise of 28.9% would only leave the militant BMA wanting more.

In response to yet more strikes, we have announced plans to put patients first by legislating for minimum service levels and banning doctors from striking.

We stand with patients who deserve better services, not the militant unions demanding more payouts.

Supporting Aspiration

We back people who work hard, want to start a family and save up to do so. 

More homes are needed but Labour’s flagship planning reforms will not work – they are building homes in the countryside and not in towns and cities where people want to live, and they are overriding local democratic consent by bypassing planning committees.

We want to build more homes, in the right places, to support young families.

Our lawfare commission will also ensure we can prioritise homes for British people – we cannot continue a situation where British citizens are behind new immigrants in the queue to access social housing.

Education and protecting children

We have opposed Labour’s terrible plans to overturn the cross-party consensus on school reform which has seen a huge rise in English school standards.  

We have proposed policies to protect kids from poisonous social media. Instead of the hysteria around online radicalisation, we drew up new powers to ban smartphones in schools and restrict social media use for under 16s.    

We have forced votes on the need for a national inquiry into child rape gangs, because we believe that the victims of this awful and national scandal deserve justice and deserve the truth. And because of the pressure we put on Labour, we forced the Government into a U-turn.   

We continue to give a voice to the victims and be honest about the perpetrators, including voting for the full release of ethnicity data of sex offenders.

Pensioners

This Labour government snatched Winter Fuel Payments from millions of the poorest pensioners. We voted consistently against this in the House of Commons, and because of the pressure we put on the Government, we forced a U-turn. 

Labour also plans to make pensioners pay income tax on their pensions for the first time. We have exposed their plans to do this and are trying to stop them.

Government efficiency and effectiveness

The Conservatives are the only ones serious about limiting government spending and the size of the quango state.

We have:

• Proposed cuts to foreign aid, to spend on urgent priorities especially defence.
• Opposed new quangos like GB Energy and the football regulator, which create more costs and red tape.
• Warned against the nationalisation of successful bus and rail companies, which are being set up to fail at huge costs to taxpayers.

Personal Freedoms

We have vigorously defended important rights such as freedom of speech, thought, press and religion.

We have:

• Laid out plans to abolish ‘non-crime hate incidents’. We shouldn’t have police spending time on investigating hurt feelings and perceived offensive language. Offensive language isn’t the same as illegal language – Conservatives will stop this practice. 
• Opposed the ‘banter ban’ on speech in pubs. Labour are making pub landlords responsible for what punters say, forcing them to police speech. Conservatives will not support such restrictions on free speech and placing extra burdens on small businesses that is why we voted against this measure in the Employment Rights Bill.
• Voted against the smoking ban. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, and not blanket bans.

Our Party defends common sense. That is why Conservatives have resisted the right-on dogma destroying our institutions.

We have:

• Held the BBC to account over their blatant bias, including for terrorist organisations like Hamas.
• Voted for changes to force public bodies to record biological sex not gender.
• Demanded the Supreme Court judgement on gender be duly reflected in policy and guidance, without delay.
• Called out racist hiring procedures and the use of positive discrimination.

Defending the national interest

We believe in putting national interest before international interests:

• Opposing the £30bn Chagos Islands surrender.
• Pushing Labour to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP in the next five years.
• Backing Ukraine to the hilt in their war against Russian aggression.
• Supporting Israel's right to defend itself. 
• Voting to crack down on Chinese solar panels that rely on modern slave labour. 
• Opposing Labour’s plans to allow China to open a ‘super embassy’ in London. 
• Supporting our soldiers with a new Armed Forces Housing Association. 

We set out five clear tests to stop the Brexit betrayal and safeguard British sovereignty, secure our borders, and defend our fishing rights:

• No backsliding on free movement or compulsory asylum transfers.
• No new money paid to the EU.
• No reduction in our fishing rights.
• No rule taking, dynamic alignment or European Court jurisdiction.
• No compromise on the primacy of NATO as the cornerstone of European security. 

When Labour's EU Surrender clearly failed all these tests and sought to drag us back into old debates about Brexit, we pledged we would simply reverse their deal.  

ECHR and lawfare

We have been clear that if we need to leave the ECHR, we will. Learning from mistakes of the past, we will not be making announcements without doing the work to understand what the consequences would be and planning for them.  Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, our Shadow Attorney General, has been asked to lead a policy commission in this area, reporting back at our Party Conference 2025.