Restoring Our Nation

We have a great history, but our culture and heritage are under severe attack by subversive ideologies in the guise of political correctness. This is a real and present danger to the fabric of our society. The slow corrosion of the ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ is now evident. Marxist groups and Alinskyite activists openly agitate to smash capitalism, disrupt the nuclear family and weaponise the police and courts against the majority, while accusing British society of systemic injustice.

The Heritage Party rejects these false narratives and believes we should celebrate our culture and heritage. Our society based on liberty and enterprise balanced by individual responsibility allows the opportunity for citizens to prosper. Our Common Law based on Christian principles is the fairest system of justice in the world, and our Constitution grants fundamental freedoms and human rights to all men and women in the land.

Children should be taught British history in schools, both good and bad, but with a sense that on balance, we are a nation with a history and heritage to be grateful for. We led the way in the abolition of the slave trade. Our Industrial Revolution transformed the world. A plethora of great Britons stream through international history. Our language is the most widely spoken on the planet. Ours is a remarkable country and we are a remarkable people. We have helped shape the modern world for the good. 

We seek to bring an end to the era of managed decline and decay. We believe that we can restore our nation to once again be a strong, prosperous, independent and sovereign land.

Ending Multiculturalism

We reject multiculturalism: the doctrine whereby different ethnic and religious groups are encouraged to maintain all aspects of their cultures instead of integrating into our majority culture, even if some of their values and customs conflict with British ones. Visitors and guests to our nation will be expected to respect and adapt to British customs and culture.

We will promote a unifying British culture based on our indigenous customs, traditions and Christian principles.

We are also committed to promoting the English language as a common ingredient that binds our society together. We will end the use of multi-lingual formatting on official documents. These will be published only in English and, where appropriate, Welsh and Gaelic.

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Free Speech and Expunging ‘Hate’ from Law

There should be no law or penalty for expressing controversial opinions, making jokes, or engaging in banter. This means supporting the freedom of speech of people who have differing views to ourselves, even if we find such opinions offensive. Everyone has the right to freedom of belief, freedom of speech and freedom of expression, provided they are not inciting violence or crime or directly threatening another person. 

Everyone must have the right to discuss and criticise all ideologies and texts without fear of being harassed by the state for their opinions. This right has been eroded over recent decades by the burgeoning concept of so-called ‘hate speech’, which is a term used to impose ‘repressive tolerance’, whereby only the prevailing ‘politically correct’ viewpoint is tolerated, and other views are stifled or sanctioned, even if they are held by the majority.

Nobody should be dragged through the courts or fired from their jobs because someone has accused them of ‘hate speech’. The Heritage Party will repeal the legal framework which has led to repressive tolerance so that everyone can once again feel free to express themselves freely, whether in social settings or on-line. We will require that Codes of Conduct for employment allow freedom of expression outside the workplace and demand that Codes of Conduct at Universities encourage, rather than restrict, diversity of opinion.

Press Freedom

Free speech must be ensured in the media, whether mainstream or social media. Broadcasters, reporters, journalists and commentators must be free to say anything they wish provided it is lawful and does not incite crime or violence. The state should not be allowed to shut down people and organisations on the spurious grounds of ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’ or ‘bias’. 

Regulations requiring impartiality in news broadcasters such as the BBC are now antiquated and unenforceable. Despite protesting their neutrality, the BBC and other broadcasting channels are brazenly biased on political and social issues. We will remove regulations requiring broadcast media to be politically impartial, to bring them in line with print and digital media which are allowed editorial opinions.

Ofcom

We will disband Ofcom and end the war on free speech by activist regulators. 

Compelled Speech

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression also mean that people have the right not to speak and not to be forced to affirm something they do not agree with. Nobody should be sanctioned, penalised or suffer loss if they refuse to affirm, for example, gender ideology or climate alarmism.

Liberty and Medical Autonomy

Liberty means that individuals have autonomy over their own lives, as well as individual responsibility for their actions and choices. The state should not seek to impose its own ideologies on individuals, nor force or coerce individuals into making choices concerning themselves or any aspects of their life over which they should have rightful autonomy. Individuals have responsibility for their own finances. They also have responsibility for their own health, and no-one should be forced or coerced to take any medicine or vaccination without their consent.

No More Lockdowns

The draconian emergency laws and regulations implemented during the Covid era were an egregious and unlawful attack on our civil liberties. The Heritage Party opposes arbitrary restrictions on citizens and businesses and will ensure there are no more lockdowns.

Freedom from Digital Tyranny and Surveillance

The technology now exists to create a dystopian 24-7 surveillance state where everyone and everything can be monitored continuously. It is therefore more important than ever to guarantee liberty and ensure that individuals continue to have the right to privacy and anonymity. The law should ensure that people can live a private life by default unless they choose otherwise. Personal information should not be held without consent. 

We completely oppose the implementation of mandatory Identity Cards, Digital ID or Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). People must remain free to go about their business privately and anonymously without continuous tracking and surveillance by the government. There must be no discrimination in access to basic goods and services if someone chooses not to have a Digital ID.

We will outlaw discrimination based on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance criteria) or social credit scoring, whereby citizens’ lawful behaviour and speech is monitored and used to restrict access to goods and services based on a person’s opinions or ‘carbon usage’.

Facial recognition technology is a threat to privacy and the right to remain anonymous. The state does not have the right to identify a person without their consent if they have not committed a crime. It must not be used for mass surveillance of the public. We will prohibit the use of facial recognition technology in public without consent.

AI is approaching a point where it may be soon used to monitor brain waves. It must be prohibited to use such technology without informed consent. In particular, police forces must not use predictive behaviour technology to make pre-emptive arrests.

Compulsory microchipping for humans must not be introduced. We will enact a law forbidding favourable treatment for people who are microchipped.

Cash

The right to privacy should apply to personal financial transactions. Cash must remain an option for purchasing goods and services at retail outlets for people who choose not to use electronic payment methods. We oppose any moves toward a ‘cashless society’ which would discriminate against many vulnerable, elderly and poorer people who do not have access to banking and electronic payments. 

We will bring forward a law to ensure that all retail outlets continue to provide an option to pay in cash, and that people are not disadvantaged or surcharged for using cash.

Banking Freedom

Banks have a privileged position in society. They must be required to provide basic banking services without discrimination. Recent examples of bank account closures of Christians, social conservatives and traditionalists because of their opinions must not be repeated. 

Anti-fraud, anti-terrorism and anti-money-laundering banking regulations have gone too far in penalising ordinary citizens. They must be reviewed and rewritten to properly balance the right of depositors to withdraw their own money without explanation, with preventing fraud, terrorism and money laundering.

Cryptocurrencies

We recognise the right to trade goods and services in cryptocurrencies. Barriers that prevent people from buying cryptocurrencies from their bank accounts should be removed.

Families free from state interference

In addition, the state should not attempt to unduly interfere with family life or micro-manage families and relationships. Parents are the primary educators and carers of their children and have the right to bring up their children as they wish, either through home education or in school. There has never been a requirement for parents to register children who are home educated or a compulsion to place them in school. These freedoms should not be removed by the state.

Freedom Act

The Heritage Party would implement a Freedom Act to affirm the absolute right to freedom of speech and repeal all legislation that is repugnant to our fundamental freedoms including:

• Public Health Act 1984
• Public Order Act 1986 Section 5
• Terrorism Act 2000 Schedule 7
• Communications Act 2003 Section 127
• Civil Contingencies Act 2004
• Equality Act 2010 Section 149
• Coronavirus Act 2020
• Online Safety Act 2023
• Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Act 2003
• Public Order Act 2023

The Freedom Act will specifically remove the concept of ‘hate’ from law, including the repeal of:

• Public Order Act 1986 Section 6 and 18-23
• Crime and Disorder Act 1998
• Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sections 145, 146
• Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006

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Restoring the traditional family

While we uphold the right of individuals to make choices about how they conduct their personal lives, we believe that the institutions of marriage and the natural family are fundamental to the fabric of a good society and the transmission of values, customs, traditions and identity from parents to children through the generations.

The traditional nuclear family where a mother and father bring up their own children is the best and most successful model for bringing up healthy and well-balanced children and building stable communities.

While there are many excellent single parents, carers and guardians who do their very best for the children in their care, the bell curve of success for children who are brought up by their own married mother and father is better than for any other model of family. Such children have better educational attainment, economic success and health, and lower rates of crime, suicide, depression, drug abuse or self-harm.

Children should not deliberately be denied a mother and a father. We will encourage and support the traditional family structure through the tax system and education, and we oppose the engineering of society in such a way that causes increasing numbers of children to be deliberately brought up without their own mother and father.

We will repeal legislation that has redefined marriage, including the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and the Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2020, and restore marriage as being one man and one woman throughout the United Kingdom.

Divorce

We will repeal the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 that allows ‘no-fault divorce’, undermining marriage as a life-long union and covenant between a man and a woman that is essential for providing the stability to bring up children.

Adoption 

We will repeal the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and legislate to restrict adoption of children to married male-female couples only.

Surrogacy

We will legislate to ban surrogacy whereby babies are manufactured to order, often to be placed in unnatural families without a mother and a father.

Supporting mothers

We reject the paradigm that expects mothers to return to work as soon as they have had a child. We will radically change the tax and benefit system to allow mothers to stay at home with their children for as long as possible after they are born, which improves all outcomes for children. This can be achieved by:

• Increasing the shared income tax personal allowance for married couples with children from 10% to 100%.
• Making childcare benefit payments directly to mothers (or the primary carer) rather than childcare providers, to allow mothers the choice to stay at home with their children rather than being coerced to leave them in a state-subsidised childcare centre and go to work.

Supporting fathers

In particular, boys need fathers. Boys who have been abandoned by their fathers or deprived of contact with them by an often-discriminatory legal system, are far more likely to turn to gangs and crime than boys who are raised with a male role model. Refuting divisive notions of ‘toxic masculinity’, we will promote wholesome father figures and the nurturing of each boy to become a good man. 

Asserting the traditional family and two biological sexes in schools

We will not allow schools to propagate anti-family propaganda which undermines heteronormativity and the picture of the traditional nuclear family as the best model of family. We will also block teaching materials and lessons which encourage early sexual activity in children before they reach the age of consent, or inappropriate materials detailing non-reproductive sexual acts.

School children should not be exposed to unscientific nonsense like queer theory or gender fluidity. It is a scientific fact that there are two sexes: male and female, which are determined by anatomy and chromosomes. Previously on the fringe of radical thought, gender ideology has been which has been mainstreamed to the detriment of children’s well-being. Transgender propaganda which confuses children about their biological sex and damages their natural development as boys or girls should not be allowed in schools.

To protect children, we will introduce Hungarian-style legislation to prohibit the promotion of LGBTQQIAAPPP+ ideologies and practices to minors under 18-years-old.

Gender

We will repeal the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and remove the concept of gender from law.

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English Bill of Rights

The English Bill of Rights 1689 states:

“.. no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate should have any jurisdiction, power, or authority within the realm.”

Any contravention of this principle is repugnant to our Constitution and we will declare any such legislation, regulations, treaties or agreements to be null and void.

Finishing Brexit

The United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020, but the new treaties that have been made with the EU are far from perfect and leave unfinished business. We must leave the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) so we can take back full control of our rich 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone for fishing and disentangle ourselves from the ‘level playing field’ requirements that commit us to ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions. 

On leaving the TCA, we will set tariffs on EU goods and services at zero, unless the EU imposes tariffs on the UK, in which case we would set reciprocal tariffs at the rate set by the EU. We would then offer a new free-trade agreement to the EU that has no conditions on how the UK runs its internal affairs, with particular regard to the current onerous restrictions on fishing, Northern Ireland and carbon emissions.

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom. Previous governments have tied Northern Ireland into the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework which has divided our nation with a trade and customs barrier down the middle of the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We must repudiate these two repugnant treaties immediately which have compromised the sovereignty of Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom.

Ther United Kingdom is in a Common Travel Area with the Republic of Ireland meaning that individuals can move freely across the border with the Republic of Ireland and the movement of individuals without goods would not be affected by repudiating the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework immediately.

On restoring full sovereignty to Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will be in different customs zones and border checks on goods crossing the border with the Republic of Ireland will need to put in place. However, we will place an open offer to the Republic of Ireland to join a Common Customs Area with the United Kingdom, which would negate the need for border checks and be mutually beneficial to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

International Trade Deals

It is good that we are now free to make our own trade deals around the world, but we must ensure that any new trade deals with countries outside the EU are mutually beneficial and do not snare us into accepting new regulations that prohibit us from making our own laws, harm our essential industries or remove jobs to countries with inferior working practices.

Freedom from Globalist Organisations

The EU is not the only organisation which has impinged on our sovereignty. We must ensure that we do not make any treaty or join any international organisation which involves in any way the surrender of any part of the United Kingdom’s sovereignty. The British people must never be subject to the imposition of a foreign legal or monetary system, or the jurisdiction of foreign courts. 

To truly regain our sovereignty, we must re-think our membership of international organisations and agreements which previous governments have signed. We should remain members of international bodies, treaties and conventions which are beneficial to our national interests, but we should not join or continue to be part of globalist arrangements which dilute our sovereignty and interfere with our democracy by imposing conditions and policies on the nation which the people never voted for. To this effect we would remove the United Kingdom from these organisations, arrangements and schemes:

• UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)
• European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Paris Climate Agreement
• Agenda 2030
• UN Migration Compact

Leaving the ECHR

Most urgently, we must leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its courts to regain full control of our national sovereignty. We can trust that our own system of Common Law will better protect the human rights of our citizens without the interference of foreign activist judges.

The original ECHR is a good convention which was drafted in 1950 by British lawyers to help restore human rights to a continent devastated by the Second World War. Seventy-five years on however, activist judges in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have made all manner of rulings which prevent the UK government from imposing law and order here at home and carrying out the wishes of the British electorate. 

They have blocked the deportation of terrorists and foreign criminals on several occasions, leaving them free to roam the streets of Britain, as well as ruling that we must recognise gender transitioning (leading to the Gender Recognition Act 2004) and give prisoners the vote. Our nation must not remain subject to such rulings.

All the most important articles of the ECHR are already embedded in our own Constitution but are regularly contravened by governments and activist judges, for example with the imposition of lockdowns and two-tier justice. While the ECHR fails to uphold many of these basic human rights, they will be affirmed and guaranteed in law by the Heritage Party:

• Right to life
• Prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading punishments
• Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
• No unlawful detention or imprisonment: Habeas Corpus
• Right to a fair trial
• No punishment without law
• Right to respect for private and family life
• Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of assembly and association
• Right to marry

Human Rights Act 1998

Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act ties the British Parliament and Courts into following the ECHR and obeying all the judgements made by the European Court of Human Rights. On leaving the ECHR, the Human Rights Act 1998 will become superfluous and we will declare it null and void.

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Ending Mass Rapid Immigration

The population of the UK rose officially by 10 million between 2000 and 2025, from 59 million to 69 million, mostly through ultra-high net immigration, but this figure does not include millions more undocumented illegal immigrants and is likely to be much higher. It has been exacerbated by previous governments which signed the UK into the ECHR whose foreign judges have made rulings preventing our nation from fully controlling our own borders, as well as the UN Global Migration Compact, the Barcelona Declaration, and the Marrakesh Declaration, which are globalist schemes designed to encourage and normalise mass immigration without a democratic mandate. The Heritage Party will withdraw from these three schemes, and bring the era of mass, rapid immigration to an end.

It is the poorest communities which have borne the consequences of mass, rapid immigration. The political and economic beneficiaries of mass immigration do not have to share their resources, space or facilities with the millions of migrants they have let into the country, and they are shielded from the consequences of their decisions. These include unaffordable homes, wage compression, packed trains, a lack of school places and huge pressure on doctors’ surgeries and Accident & Emergency units in the towns and cities where immigration levels have been the highest, as well as a housing crisis as it has simply not been possible to build homes for 10 million extra people in 25 years.

Legal immigration must be brought down to sustainable, balanced levels, with strict caps on specific classes of immigration such as students and low-skilled and unskilled workers. Skilled workers should be allowed to come to the country for specific jobs on time-limited work visas where there is a shortage of British workers, but this must not be at the expense of training up British young people with the skills they need in every profession. Sham marriages and chain migration must be stopped, and illegal immigration must be halted entirely and reversed.  

Controlling Our Borders

We will halt and reverse mass immigration with our 15-point plan:

• Declare a state of emergency in the English Channel to prevent illegal boats crossing the Channel from entering British waters and return them to France
• Leave the ECHR 
• Leave the UN Refugee Convention
• Leave the UN Global Migration Compact
• Leave the Barcelona Declaration
• Leave the Marrakesh Declaration
• Deport all foreign criminals
• Deport all bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants
• End welfare and free housing, healthcare and education for foreign nationals in the UK
• Assist migrants losing welfare and free housing to return to their own countries
• Increase jail sentences and financial penalties for facilitating illegal immigration or employing illegal migrants
• Reduce work and workers’ dependents’ visas from 408,000 per year (in 2024) to 100,000 per year
• Reduce student and students’ dependents’ visas from 415,000 per year (in 2024) to 100,000 per year
• End resettlement programs that deliberately facilitate migration from Afghanistan, Ukraine and other countries to the UK
• Increase citizenship qualification from 5 years to 20 years continuous residency with requirements to speak fluent English and be culturally assimilated

Scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain

We will scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK and replace it with time-limited work visas of between 2 and 5 years. The appropriate length of visa will be determined according to the specific skills of the applicant and the employment needs of the nation. Foreign nationals on time-limited visas must have private health insurance and will not be eligible for welfare or council housing.

There will be no guarantee of automatic renewal of time-limited work visas.

Citizenship

From 2000 to 2024, successive governments have given out 3,927,000 British citizenships to foreigners, with 269,000 being given out in 2024. The criteria for obtaining British citizenship are appallingly slack, with large numbers of citizenships given out after just 5 years in the country attending a sham University course or delivering pizzas, after which the recipient often goes on to claim benefits and bring multiple relatives to the country who do not speak English or integrate into British culture. This must end.

The residency requirement for obtaining British citizenship must be tightened so that a foreigner is only eligible to be considered for citizenship after 20 years of continuous residency without claiming benefits, and must be fluent in English, culturally integrated and committed to contributing to the nation.

Ending Illegal Entry

Substantial developments to protecting our borders and coastal waters are needed. More robust checks should be conducted at harbours and airports to prevent illegal immigration, and all means of forced entry to the country by migrants should be made unviable. We will task the Royal Navy with preventing small boats carrying illegal immigrants from entering British waters and towing them back to their point of origin. There must be an end to rewards and incentives which encourage spurious claims of asylum by illegal immigrants who have travelled through several safe countries to claim benefits in the UK. 

Deportation

All foreign nationals who are in the country illegally will be deported, whether they have arrived illegally on a small boat or the back of a lorry or have overstayed a work or study visa. All foreign nationals who have committed a criminal offence will be deported to their country of origin. We will deploy the Army to detain and deport illegal immigrants to their home countries.

Asylum

Asylum should only be granted to genuine refugees who have arrived in the UK without passing through any other safe countries such as France or Belgium, and they should be helped to return to their home countries when they become safe. All immigrants to the UK should be expected to adapt to our culture and way of life while they are here.

Ending exploitation of cheap migrant labour

Illegal migrant workers are often willing to work for less than the minimum wage, but some are duped and forced into enduring appalling slave-like conditions to enrich unscrupulous bosses who break the law. This has led to wage compression with honest hard-working British men and women unable to compete with illegal cheap migrant labour. We will beef up our Border Force to provide them with the resources they need to return illegal immigrants to their home countries. Anyone found to be using illegal cheap foreign labour or forcing others to work in slavery should be imprisoned and have their assets confiscated to pay compensation. 

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Abortion

11 million abortions have been carried out in the UK since the Abortion Act in 1967, and now there are over 250,000 abortions per year in the UK. Unborn children are children. In every abortion a human life is ended. 

We will end legal abortion except to save the life of the mother. The culture of abortion should be replaced with a culture of life, firstly by encouraging personal responsibility to avoid the need for abortions in the first place, and then by providing help and support, or alternatives such as adoption to mothers when needed.

To this end, we will fully restore the protections afforded to unborn children in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929.

We shall repeal those laws that decriminalise abortion or criminalise protest about abortion:

• Abortion Act 1967
• Northern Ireland Act 2019 Section 9
• Public Order Act 2023 Section 9
• Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024
• Crime and Policing Bill 2025

We will prohibit ‘pills by post’ whereby poisons that kill unborn children are delivered for use at home. These poisons not only kill innocent human beings but contaminate the water supply after use.

We will completely defund UK government support for abortion programs outside the UK.

Crisis Pregnancy Services

After defunding all abortion centres, we will instead fund Crisis Pregnancy Centres that give support and counselling to mothers who have an unplanned pregnancy and practical help during the process of deciding to keep their baby or give it up for adoption.

Embryo Experimentation

‘Embryos’ are human beings. They should not be used for scientific experiments. Such experimentation breaks the Nuremberg Code. We will repeal the laws that allow such experimentation on these vulnerable human beings just after conception, i.e. the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.

Gender Mutilation

The state must not support practices that cause genital mutilation and sterility. The ’gender affirmation’ model for gender dysphoria must be abandoned in the healthcare and education sectors and replaced with a return to addressing the underlying issues behind body dysmorphia conditions when they occur. Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender surgery should never be administered to children under 18.

We support counselling and therapy for people seeking help with gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction: we oppose any ban on talking therapies, counselling, prayer and pastoral care for these issues that far-left activists pejoratively call ‘conversion therapy’.

Euthanasia

The Heritage Party is also concerned for the sanctity of life of older and disabled people. The elderly have as much right to healthcare as the young, and they should not be made to feel a burden. We shall emphasise the Hippocratic Oath and stop nihilistic elements in the medical profession from wreaking destruction. ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders have been liberally applied in hospitals, often without consent.

We will oppose and repeal any legalisation that legalises assisted suicide, or any change to the medical code of conduct that allows arbitrary deprivation of treatment. 

Palliative Care

It is palliative care, not euthanasia, that helps people to die with dignity at the end of their lives. Hospices and others who provide palliative care must be properly and thoroughly funded and honoured for the work they do.

Parental Rights over Life

There must never be a repeat of the traumatic cases of Alfie Evans, Charlie Gard and Sudiksha Thirumalesh, when activist judges and medical practitioners refused to allow these children to receive treatments offered by other hospitals. No medical practitioner, judge or magistrate should have a right to decide to block a patient from receiving an offer of a potentially life-saving treatment, over and above the express wishes of the next-of-kin, especially the parents or spouse of a patient.