Self-Sufficiency in Skills

The UK must become self-sufficient in skills rather than relying on importing skilled and unskilled labour from abroad. Education needs to be re-focussed onto fostering excellence and teaching pupils and students the skills they need to be self-reliant. We must train enough of our own young people to succeed and thrive in professional and technical careers, particularly as nurses, doctors, teachers, engineers, construction workers and IT professionals. 

Parents as Primary Educators

Parents have always been considered as the primary educators of their children and we will affirm this in legislation. We will repeal laws infringing the family unit’s fundamental right to be primarily responsible for its children. We oppose the disempowerment of parents by the state, whereby its institutions are increasingly dictating the norms and values children learn and supplanting the role of the parents and their right to pass on their own values and beliefs to their children.

Schools

Schools need to be re-focussed on ensuring that every child is proficient in the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic and fostering excellence so that no child is held back from reaching their full potential. Teachers must be free to concentrate on what is important without being overloaded with bureaucratic assessments and appraisals or political schemes and requirements that are superfluous to education.

Schools should foster the desire and capacity of young minds to think freely for themselves rather than seeking to indoctrinate them in Cultural Marxist ideologies. Teacher training courses need to be given a radical overhaul and re-focussed on training educators to use successful traditional teaching methods that focus on facts and excellence rather than post-modern, deconstructive and relativistic methods.

We would end political correctness in schools with a specific Act to prevent the promotion of gender ideology, climate alarmism and anti-white racism by activist teachers. Subjects that seek to indoctrinate children with politically correct ideologies will be removed from the statutory National Curriculum, specifically Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE), Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Citizenship.

Schools are there to serve families and not the other way around. We will end fines for taking children on short holiday breaks during term time.

Ofsted

Ofsted is an unelected quango with no accountability to anyone. It should be abolished and the responsibility for inspecting schools placed with the Department for Education. School inspections should focus solely on teaching and learning. Schools should not be judged on subjective criteria relating to the ‘progressive’ left-wing ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’ agenda.

Secondary Schools

The re-implementation of a tripartite system at secondary school level is a top priority. There should be grammar schools for the academically talented, technical schools to train young people with an aptitude for practical and vocational skills, and general schools to ensure that all children of all levels have the personal skills, entrepreneurial skills and employability to succeed in the world of work if they leave formal education at 16.

We will once again allow new grammar schools to open and push for there to be a range of different types of school, including grammar, technical, vocational, general, special and specialist secondary schools within every geographical area.

Faith Schools

We support faith schools, 97% of which are Christian schools. We will scrap the cap on faith-based selection in faith schools.

Independent Schools

We recognise the great contribution that Independent Schools have made to our nation over many centuries and continue to do so today. We will scrap VAT on school fees at Independent Schools which is a spiteful and destructive policy by the current government.

Home Education

We support the rights of parents who wish to home educate their children. There has never been a requirement to register home educated children in the UK nor to report on the nature of home education activities to any authority. We oppose the introduction of any registration or reporting requirements for home educated children and we will repeal any legislation to that effect at the first opportunity.

Parents must be allowed to begin home educating their children at any time they wish without restrictions. We will scrap all regulations that prevent parents from de-registering their children from a school.

Assisted Places

We will seek to work with Independent Schools to restore the Assisted Places Program which helped over 80,000 poorer children to go to private schools but was scrapped under Tony Blair.

Universities

Universities need to become lean and mean again and focus on delivering high quality academic courses. Universities are not for everyone, particularly those who are talented in practical fields who would benefit more from following a non-academic route and would be better off getting a job at 16 or 18 and learning a trade.

Universities should be for the 20% or so of people who will benefit from rigorous, high-level academic courses. We will drop the artificial target of 50% of people going to higher education. Many University courses are effectively either useless debt-traps for young people or immigration scams and should be scrapped. 

Poor quality courses and Universities which do more harm than good and are of little use to employers should be defunded, and failing universities should not be saved from going out of business. Too many academic institutions seem to believe that their role is to force-feed left-wing ideology and divisive identity politics, while stifling debate. Such institutions should not receive government subsidies or grants to continue their corrosive activities.

It is insanity to impose a cap on places to study in Medicine and Dentistry at University while there is a huge shortage of doctors and dentists. We will scrap these caps and allow Universities to expand the number of places available for young British citizens to train to be doctors and dentists.

We would cover the student loan repayments of British students who have graduated in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, Medicine) subjects so long as they work in their field of study in the UK. 

Technical Skills

For those who are more gifted in practical and vocational fields, we will invest in apprenticeships and bring back the Polytechnics which should never have been closed or converted, so that young people can learn high-level technical skills to succeed in practical trades. Our aim is to return to an era characterised by high levels of employment, wide ranging skills sets and British manufacturing, where we as a nation are self-sufficient in skills, British youngsters are trained to do skilled jobs so that they can all earn a good living, and there is no longer a need to depend on an unsustainable flow of cheap labour from abroad.

We will scrap the Apprentice Levy which is over-complicated and counter-productive, and had a detrimental effect on many tailored courses and apprenticeship schemes by imposing ‘one size fits all’ rules on apprenticeship training.

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Cutting Waiting Lists

The stifling bureaucracy of the NHS has led to the longest waiting lists for hospital treatment in the Western world.When people need to see a doctor, they should be able to see a GP face to face with no waiting time. There should be no waiting lists for surgery or hospital treatment. In order to reduce waiting lists, the NHS should fund treatment for their patients in the private sector where necessary so that waiting times for operations are reduced and waiting lists are ultimately brought down to zero.

Medical Skills and Training

Our country should train enough doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and midwives to work in the healthcare sector without having to rely on a constant stream of migrant healthcare workers because we do not train enough people here to do the jobs that need to be done.  There should be no caps on the number of places for British citizens to train to be doctors and dentists at university, or to train on-the-job to be nurses and midwives. 

Nursing should not be a degree-only subject that is a route to management whereby qualified nurses do little actual practical care. Nurses should spend the majority of their time on wards giving practical care and we will once again make nursing a profession with on-the-job training. 

National not International

The NHS should only be available for UK citizens apart from accident and emergency units. Foreign nationals should be required to take out private medical insurance before they come to the UK and during the duration of their stay to relieve the pressure from health tourists.

Informed Consent

Medical autonomy and informed consent must be upheld and never again breached as it was in the Covid period. There must never be any coercion, threat, penalty or punishment for choosing not to take a particular medicine or vaccination.

Preventative Medicine

Preventative medicine should be at the heart of our healthcare system, whereby citizens are empowered to live healthy and wholesome lifestyles and avoid chronic conditions that make them dependent on drugs for a lifetime. Encouraging healthy diet, regular exercise, proper sleep and exposure to sunlight should be recommended to all people. The use of natural products should be elevated to standard use if they are found to be safe and effective in curing diseases and enhancing health and vitality.

Big Pharma Influence

The healthcare budget should not be spent on the latest ultra-expensive treatments from pharmaceutical companies whose efficacy is questionable. There must never be a repeat of the general roll-out of unsafe products like thalidomide or experimental mRNA injections, which has led to a surge in excess mortality and the physical impairment of multitudes of people who were deceived or coerced into taking them.

Safe, inexpensive and effective medicines such as hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, fenbendazole, DMSO and CBD should be available to everyone in pharmacies and supermarkets.

Vaccine Liability

We will repeal Regulation 345 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 so that vaccine manufacturers and healthcare providers can be held liable for vaccine injuries and deaths.

Organ Donation and Harvesting

Organs should not be taken with informed consent, meaning that there should be an opt-in system for organ donations. No organs should be taken from a living human being until death, defined as being when the heartbeat and circulation has ceased. People who have been declared ‘brain dead’ but still have a beating heart are still living and must not be classified as dead for organ harvesting.

We will repeal the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019.

Mental Health

Mental health should be cared for by empowering citizens to experience varied, healthy lifestyles and avoid the negative messaging of media conglomerates. 

While some people suffer from a genuine mental illness, many other mental health issues have no clear biological basis. In recent years, emotions, feelings and experiences which were previously considered a normal part of life have been pathologized and medicalised, not least in the latest versions of the most widely used psychiatric manuals: the DSM and ICD. 

Patients presenting with ‘mental health’ problems and issues should in the first instance be assessed by the ‘non-diagnostic method’ and treated primarily by ‘talking cure’ methods. These have proven to be more effective in the long term than the ‘medical method’ of prescribing anti-psychotics or anti-depressants without thought to the underlying issues that cause people to present with mental health conditions.

Where there is a sudden increase in people presenting with mental health issues, such as ‘sudden onset gender dysphoria’ in teenagers in the 2010s, this needs to be investigated and the issues tackled at source.

Anti-depressants are little more effective than placebos in many cases and inappropriate for the vast majority of patients to whom they have been prescribed. They should only be prescribed sparingly and in severe cases of anguish where a patient’s physical well-being would otherwise be in danger. In other cases, the ‘talking cure’ of psychotherapy and contextual interventions should be favoured.

Anti-psychotics should only be prescribed to patients with severe and proven cases of schizophrenia and other such conditions and combined with interventions to identify and heal underlying issues.

We oppose a ban on counselling or therapy for people seeking help with gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction.

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Welfare Eligibility

The welfare system should be a safety net for those in genuine need, but not a hammock to lie in while unduly receiving redistributed wealth. We will end the culture of welfare scrounging where people exist on welfare for years or play the system when they are perfectly able to work and support themselves. Those who are fit and able to work, must work for a living and not allowed to become dependent on the state if they can provide for themselves. 

After 2 years on benefits without finding employment, benefit recipients will be required to undertake community service or job placements to continue to receive payments.

We will end benefit payments to all immigrants regardless of how long they have lived in the country, unless they are granted citizenship after 20 years of residency.

Universal Credit

We will complete the migration of legacy benefits to Universal Credit, which will only be available to UK citizens living in the UK.

Universal Credit is based on the principles of ending incentives to stay unemployed and implementing a maximum benefit level per household. The time taken from a Universal Credit application to the receipt of benefits must be kept to a minimum.

Childcare

It is not right to encourage mothers to return to work as soon as possible after having a child and then pay for childcare so that children are split up from their mothers and fathers while they are still infants. Instead of providing childcare as part of Universal Credit, we will scrap this component and increase the child element of Universal Credit so that it is easier for parents to stay at home with their children as long as possible.

We will end subsidies for outsourced childcare, and encourage parents, especially mothers, to bring up their children at home or with other parents in their own communities and neighbourhoods.

We will end requirements for childcare providers to be regulated by Ofsted and put the responsibility for decision making about childcare back in the hands of parents.

Personal Independence Payments and Disability

3.7 million people currently receive Personal Independence Payments (PIPs) for disabilities or mental health conditions in 2025, an increase of 1.1 million since 2020. People who are genuinely disabled or mentally ill should receive support, but undiagnosed mental health conditions are now being used by hundreds of thousands of people to claim benefits. 

We will roll-out in-person face-to-face assessments for all PIP benefit claims, which should be assessed objectively by a qualified medical practitioner and only granted if genuine.

Bedroom Tax

We will scrap the ‘bedroom tax’ – which adversely affects many disabled people.

Child Benefit

Child benefit, that is currently paid universally to 12 million children costs £12.5 billion. It must only be paid only to children of UK citizens who are living in the UK. We will take robust measures to find and deport foreign nationals who are fraudulently claiming child benefit.

NEETs

There are 923,000 NEETs (young people aged 16 – 24 not in education, employment or training). While some have a good reason for their situation, others do not and claim benefits while not working. Young people seeking benefits should automatically be directed to an entry level job or enrolled in an apprenticeship or training programme to learn a marketable skill such as driving an HGV/PCV, and lose their entitlement to benefits if they refuse.

Universal Basic Income

We oppose the Marxist idea of a Basic State Income or Universal Citizen’s Income for all, which traps people in dependency on the state, undermining personal responsibility and encouraging laziness.

Minimum wage

The minimum wage has a counter-intuitively adverse effect on employment, causing businesses to scale back on hiring and employees’ hours and even to have to fire some people. We will not increase the minimum wage for the term of Parliament.

Zero Hours Contracts

We will seek to minimise the use of zero hours contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wage. Employers offering zero hours contracts must not be allowed to prevent employees from taking up other offers of work.

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State Pension

The State Pension is run like a Ponzi scheme, with retired recipients being paid from the NI contributions of current workers. Like all Ponzi schemes, it requires an ever-increasing number of people paying in to sustain it, without which it will eventually collapse. The UK state pension saves up no individual pension pots and thus is small compared to many other countries with advanced economies. 

In government, we would create a Sovereign Wealth Fund from the proceeds of extracting the UK’s natural gas reserves to underpin the state pension.

Triple Lock

We will continue to increase state pension payments according to the ‘triple lock’, which guarantees the state pension will rise by a minimum of either 2.5%, inflation or average earnings growth – whichever is the largest.

Personal Pensions

We will not re-instate the lifetime saving allowance limit on personal pensions.

We will increase the annual tax-free pensions savings limit from £60,000 to £100,000.