2024 General Election · Theme by Theme

Manifesto Comparisons

What every UK party promised at the 2024 General Election, theme by theme. A coloured dot marks where a party has materially shifted since. Click any column header to read that party's full dossier.

Labour

404 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: Labour pledged a tax lock ruling out increases to the rates of income tax, National Insurance and VAT on working people, capped corporation tax at 25 per cent for the…
NHS & Health: Labour committed to cut NHS waiting times by delivering an extra 40,000 appointments, scans and operations a week, funded by cracking down on tax avoidance and non dom…
Immigration & Asylum: Labour pledged to scrap the Rwanda removals scheme on day one and replace it with a new Border Security Command staffed by hundreds of investigators, intelligence officers and…
Education: Labour pledged to recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects, paid for by ending the VAT and business rates exemption for private schools, and to fund free breakfast…
Climate & Energy: Labour committed to make Britain a clean energy superpower by decarbonising the electricity system by 2030, doubling onshore wind, trebling solar and quadrupling offshore wind…
Housing: Labour pledged 1.5 million new homes over the parliament, restoration of mandatory local housing targets, and reform of the National Planning Policy Framework to fast track…
Welfare & Work: Labour promised to introduce its New Deal for Working People within 100 days, banning exploitative zero hours contracts, ending fire and rehire, and creating day one rights to…
Crime & Justice: Labour pledged 13,000 additional neighbourhood police officers, PCSOs and special constables, a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee giving every community a named officer, and…
Defence & Foreign Policy: Labour declared an unshakeable commitment to NATO and the UK's nuclear deterrent, pledged to set out the path to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence when fiscal conditions…
Europe: Labour ruled out rejoining the EU, the single market or the customs union, and ruled out the return of free movement.
Constitution & Devolution: Labour committed to immediate legislation removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers from the House of Lords, introducing a mandatory retirement age of 80, and consulting on a…

Conservative

118 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The 2024 manifesto promised £17 billion of tax cuts by 2029/30, headlined by a further 2p cut to employee National Insurance taking it to 6 per cent, the abolition of the main…
NHS & Health: The Conservatives pledged to increase NHS spending above inflation every year, deliver the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan with 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors by 2030…
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto promised a binding annual cap on work and family visas set on Migration Advisory Committee advice and voted on by Parliament, alongside a regular rhythm of monthly…
Education: The Conservatives pledged to introduce mandatory National Service at 18 with a choice between a competitive military placement or one weekend a month of civic volunteering…
Climate & Energy: The manifesto reaffirmed the legally binding 2050 net zero target but pledged a pragmatic and proportionate path that rejected new green levies, road pricing and meat taxes.
Housing: The Conservatives pledged to deliver 1.6 million new homes in England over the next Parliament, averaging 320,000 a year, through fast track brownfield planning in the 20…
Welfare & Work: The manifesto banked £12 billion of annual welfare savings to part fund the National Insurance cuts, principally by tightening the work capability assessment, moving Personal…
Crime & Justice: The Conservatives pledged to recruit an additional 8,000 neighbourhood police officers, give every community a named officer, and make whole life orders mandatory for more of…
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto committed to raise defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030 on a fully funded path, described as the largest sustained increase since the Cold War, and to…
Europe: The manifesto framed Brexit as settled and ruled out rejoining the EU, the single market or the customs union, while pledging to use regulatory freedoms through smarter…
Constitution & Devolution: The manifesto offered a devolution deal to every part of England that wanted one by 2030 while opposing further transfers of power to the Scottish Parliament, Senedd or Stormont…

Liberal Democrats

71 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The Liberal Democrats pledged to raise roughly £27 billion of additional annual revenue by 2028/29, headlined by a 16 per cent sewage tax on water company profits raising £260…
NHS & Health: The Liberal Democrats committed an £8.4 billion package for NHS and social care, headlined by a right to see a GP within seven days or twenty four hours if urgent, 8,000 more…
Immigration & Asylum: The Liberal Democrats pledged to replace the salary threshold for skilled worker visas with a merit based system, scrap the immigration skills charge for NHS and social care…
Education: The Liberal Democrats pledged to extend the pupil premium and introduce a National Tutoring Guarantee covering disadvantaged pupils, recruit additional teachers in shortage…
Climate & Energy: The Liberal Democrats committed to a net zero target of 2045, five years ahead of the legally binding 2050 deadline, with the path including a major renewables expansion…
Housing: The Liberal Democrats pledged 380,000 new homes per year including 150,000 new social homes per year, the construction of ten new garden cities, and a Housing Crisis Action Plan…
Welfare & Work: The Liberal Democrats committed to scrap the two child benefit cap, raise the carer's allowance and expand the earnings threshold, introduce day one employment rights to sick…
Crime & Justice: The Liberal Democrats pledged to restore community policing through new neighbourhood teams, scrap Police and Crime Commissioners and replace them with local Police Boards drawn…
Defence & Foreign Policy: The Liberal Democrats committed to defence spending of 2.5 per cent of GDP, full continued support for Ukraine including military and financial assistance, and a return to…
Europe: The Liberal Democrats set out the most explicitly pro European position of any UK Westminster party: a four stage roadmap to return to the European Union, beginning with…
Constitution & Devolution: The Liberal Democrats committed to introduce proportional representation by single transferable vote for general elections, lower the voting age to 16 for all UK elections and…

Reform UK

8 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The 2024 Contract pledged to lift the income tax personal allowance to £20,000, raise the higher rate threshold from £50,271 to £70,000, abolish stamp duty on properties below…
NHS & Health: The Contract promised an extra £17bn a year for the NHS and to eradicate waiting lists within two years, with tax breaks for frontline doctors and nurses.
Immigration & Asylum: Reform pledged to freeze non essential immigration, lift National Insurance for foreign workers to 20%, pick up small boats and return them to France, and end the settlement of…
Education: The Contract promised a patriotic curriculum with mandatory pairing of British imperial history teaching with non European examples, a ban on what it called transgender ideology…
Climate & Energy: Reform branded net zero the greatest act of negligence and promised to scrap it, fast track new North Sea oil and gas licences, restart shale gas extraction, accelerate small…
Housing: The Contract committed to scrap stamp duty on homes under £750,000, reverse Section 24 so landlords can deduct mortgage interest, prioritise brownfield development with fast…
Welfare & Work: Reform pledged large cuts to working age benefits as part of £150bn of savings, tighter fit for work assessments, and reform of disability and sickness payments to drive…
Crime & Justice: The Contract promised 40,000 more police officers over five years, zero tolerance policing of low level disorder, mandatory minimum sentences for repeat and serious offenders…
Defence & Foreign Policy: The Contract pledged to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP within three years and 3% within six, recruit 30,000 more service personnel, withdraw from the World Health…
Europe: The Contract called for scrapping all retained EU law, abandoning or renegotiating the post Brexit treaties including the Windsor Framework, refusing any return to the single…
Constitution & Devolution: The Contract pledged to replace the House of Lords with a smaller more democratic second chamber, hold a referendum on switching from first past the post to proportional…

Scottish National Party

8 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The SNP's 2024 manifesto demanded full devolution of income tax, National Insurance, VAT and the power to levy windfall taxes to the Scottish Parliament, and assumed a £30…
NHS & Health: The SNP manifesto committed at least £10 billion of capital investment in the Scottish NHS over ten years and pledged that all UK Government funding consequentials from NHS…
Immigration & Asylum: The SNP manifesto pledged to push for a bespoke Scottish visa system, opposed the Rwanda removals scheme, supported the right to work for asylum seekers, and argued that…
Education: Education is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto demanded £28 billion per year of UK Government investment to meet net zero targets, including at least £500 million to support Scotland's transition from oil and gas.
Housing: Housing in Scotland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto's central UK welfare demands were that Westminster scrap the two child benefit cap, scrap the bedroom tax, and expand carer's allowance.
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice is devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto pledged removal of Trident nuclear weapons from Scotland as a precondition for an independent Scotland's foreign policy, opposition to UK arms sales to Israel…
Europe: The SNP manifesto positioned EU rejoin as a post independence promise: an independent Scotland would seek European Union membership, with the rejoin route opening only after a…
Constitution & Devolution: The SNP's 2024 manifesto put independence on page one line one and committed that an SNP majority of Scottish Westminster seats would trigger an immediate ask for a section 30…

Sinn Féin

7 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: Sinn Féin's 2024 Westminster manifesto centred on the all Ireland economic argument: the dual mandate of Northern Ireland inside the UK fiscal framework and partially inside EU…
NHS & Health: NHS Northern Ireland is devolved.
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto opposed the Rwanda removals scheme, opposed the Illegal Migration Act framework, and supported the right of asylum seekers to work three months after arrival.
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto pledged Northern Ireland alignment with the UK net zero target while pushing for all Ireland climate cooperation through cross border infrastructure investment…
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto opposed the two child benefit cap, the bedroom tax and the wider Conservative welfare framework, and demanded parity of welfare protection with Great Britain.
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice and policing in Northern Ireland are devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto opposed Trident nuclear weapons renewal, opposed Northern Irish military involvement in NATO operations, supported restoration of overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of…
Europe: Sinn Féin's 2024 manifesto supported the operational position created by the Windsor Framework, which keeps Northern Ireland inside parts of the EU single market for goods, and…
Constitution & Devolution: The defining 2024 manifesto commitment was that the British and Irish Governments set a date for a referendum on Irish unity by 2030, supported by a citizens' assembly and a…

Democratic Unionist Party

5 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The DUP's 2024 manifesto committed to lowering Northern Ireland corporation tax through devolved competence, expanded hydrogen sector investment, apprenticeship growth and the…
NHS & Health: The manifesto committed to driving NHS Northern Ireland waiting lists down through large scale partnerships with independent and not for profit providers, closing public sector…
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto supported the Conservative Rwanda removals scheme and the Illegal Migration Act framework, opposed expanded asylum routes, and argued for tighter border…
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto supported the UK 2050 net zero target while emphasising the importance of hydrogen development for Northern Ireland industry, criticised levy increases on…
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto opposed the two child benefit cap as it applied in Northern Ireland, supported expansion of carer's allowance, and argued for parity of treatment between Great…
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto committed to full support for the United Kingdom's defence posture including Trident nuclear renewal, NATO membership, continued military and financial support for…
Europe: The manifesto position on Europe was the central political demand of the party: removal of the Irish Sea border, ending of European Union law application in Northern Ireland…
Constitution & Devolution: The manifesto's defining constitutional commitment was the defence of Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom and of cross community consent as the foundational…

Green Party

5 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The Green Party's 2024 "Real Hope, Real Change" manifesto committed to a wealth tax of 1 per cent on individual assets over £10 million and 2 per cent on assets over £1 billion…
NHS & Health: The manifesto pledged £50 billion over the parliament for NHS and social care, including £20 billion of capital investment in hospital building and repair, free personal care…
Immigration & Asylum: The Green Party manifesto opposed the entirety of the hostile environment framework, pledged to scrap the Rwanda scheme, give asylum seekers the right to work three months after…
Education: The manifesto pledged to scrap university tuition fees, restore maintenance grants, and provide an additional £8 billion to schools to reverse a decade of real terms cuts.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto committed to the most ambitious decarbonisation programme of any 2024 manifesto: 70 per cent of UK electricity from wind by 2030, a ban on all new fossil fuel…
Housing: The manifesto pledged 150,000 new social rented homes per year, rent controls in areas of high need, an end to Section 21 no fault evictions, abolition of Right to Buy, and a…
Welfare & Work: The manifesto pledged to trial Universal Basic Income at a level sufficient to abolish poverty, scrap the two child benefit cap, raise the carer's allowance, and introduce a £15…
Crime & Justice: The manifesto proposed shifting funding from policing toward mental health, youth and community services, ending the use of prison for non violent drug offences, decriminalising…
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto pledged immediate recognition of the State of Palestine, an end to all arms sales to Israel, cancellation of the Trident nuclear replacement, and restoration of…
Europe: The Green Party manifesto committed to immediate rebuilding of close EU ties, accession to the customs union and single market as a near term step, and EU membership as the long…
Constitution & Devolution: The manifesto committed to proportional representation by single transferable vote, voting age 16, abolition of the House of Lords and replacement with a federal elected second…

Plaid Cymru

4 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: Plaid Cymru's 2024 manifesto demanded a fair funding settlement for Wales based on need rather than the existing Barnett formula, devolution of the Crown Estate to Wales on the…
NHS & Health: NHS Wales is devolved.
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto opposed the Rwanda removals scheme, supported asylum seeker right to work, criticised the hostile environment framework, and argued Wales should have a voice in…
Education: Education is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto committed to a Welsh net zero target ahead of the UK 2050 deadline, devolution of the Crown Estate to capture offshore wind revenues for Welsh reinvestment, and…
Housing: The manifesto pledged expanded social housing investment, second home council tax premiums, and Welsh language considerations in planning policy for rural areas.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto pushed for devolution of welfare administration to Wales, an end to the two child benefit cap and the bedroom tax, a real living wage for care workers, and…
Crime & Justice: The manifesto's central ask was full devolution of justice and policing to Wales, a long standing Plaid commitment going back to the Silk and Thomas Commissions.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto opposed Trident nuclear weapons replacement, supported the restoration of overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income, and committed to continued…
Europe: The manifesto committed to pushing the UK Government towards closer alignment with the European Union, opposed the cuts to UK EU trade caused by Brexit, and supported eventual…
Constitution & Devolution: The 2024 manifesto held Welsh independence as the long term constitutional goal and committed to expanded devolution including justice, policing, broadcasting and the Crown…

SDLP

2 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The SDLP's 2024 "An Election For Change" manifesto pushed for a strong UK fiscal framework for Northern Ireland addressing what the party called chronic underfunding, an…
NHS & Health: NHS Northern Ireland is devolved.
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto opposed the Rwanda removals scheme, supported asylum seeker right to work, criticised the hostile environment framework, and pushed for a Northern Ireland visa…
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto pledged Northern Ireland alignment with the UK net zero target and accelerated investment in offshore wind capacity in NI waters, framed as both a climate and an…
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto opposed the two child benefit cap, opposed the bedroom tax, supported expansion of carer's allowance and committed to robust hate crime legislation.
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto supported continued NATO membership, opposed Trident nuclear renewal, supported restoration of overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income, and pushed…
Europe: The SDLP's 2024 manifesto was the most explicitly pro Windsor Framework Northern Ireland party position, defending the framework's operational role, pushing for closer UK…
Constitution & Devolution: The manifesto committed to building the case for Irish unity by consent through the New Ireland Commission, an explicitly distinct framework from Sinn Féin's 2030 referendum…

Your Party

2 seats · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: Your Party's founding platform commits to a mass redistribution of wealth and power and to taxing the very richest in society.
NHS & Health: Your Party's founding statement commits to a National Health Service free of privatisation, opposing the use of independent sector providers and tying the party's NHS frame to…
Immigration & Asylum: Coming soon
Education: Coming soon
Climate & Energy: Your Party's launch document pledges to bring energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership, and to confront fossil fuel giants putting their profits before the planet.
Housing: Your Party's founding platform proposes a massive council house building programme and direct investment in social housing as the central housing commitment.
Welfare & Work: Your Party's parliamentary leader Zarah Sultana lost the Labour whip in July 2024 over a vote to scrap the two child benefit cap, the action that catalysed her departure and the…
Crime & Justice: Coming soon
Defence & Foreign Policy: Your Party's founding statement demands an end to all arms sales to Israel and supports a free and independent Palestinian state.
Europe: Coming soon
Constitution & Devolution: Your Party is structured around collective leadership through a Central Executive Committee, formally adopted as a member led socialist party at the November 2025 inaugural…

Alliance Party

1 seat · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The Alliance "Leading Change" 2024 manifesto demanded a new financial settlement for Northern Ireland to replace what the party called chronic Treasury underfunding, with a…
NHS & Health: NHS Northern Ireland is devolved.
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto opposed the Rwanda removals scheme and the Illegal Migration Act framework, supported the right of asylum seekers to work, and pushed for a Northern Ireland visa…
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto pledged alignment with the UK 2050 net zero target, accelerated investment in offshore wind in Northern Irish waters, and a green economy strategy linked to the…
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto opposed the two child benefit cap, opposed the bedroom tax, and demanded parity of treatment with Great Britain on welfare uprating.
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved and Alliance leader Naomi Long has held the Justice Minister role at Stormont.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto supported continued NATO membership, opposed Trident nuclear renewal as poor value for money, supported restoration of overseas aid to 0.7 per cent of gross…
Europe: The manifesto positioned Alliance as among the most explicitly pro Windsor Framework parties in Northern Ireland, defending the framework's operational role and pushing for…
Constitution & Devolution: The defining 2024 manifesto commitment was Stormont reform: ending the unionist nationalist designations system, replacing the Petition of Concern with weighted majority voting…

Restore Britain

1 seat · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: Restore Britain's founding platform commits to reducing taxes and limiting the size of government, with a significantly smaller state as the framing principle.
NHS & Health: Restore Britain proposes refocusing the NHS to serve British citizens as its first and only priority, with eligibility for non emergency care tied more tightly to immigration…
Immigration & Asylum: Restore Britain's central commitment is the mass deportation of every illegal migrant in the United Kingdom, estimated by the party at between 1.8 and 2 million people, through…
Education: Restore Britain proposes a shift away from what it calls worthless university degrees toward funded apprenticeships and practical life skills training for young people.
Climate & Energy: Restore Britain pledges to abandon the 2050 net zero target in favour of a British first energy strategy focused on domestic oil, gas and nuclear production.
Housing: Restore Britain's published housing position is infrastructure led housing delivered alongside the domestic production focus of its energy strategy.
Welfare & Work: Restore Britain proposes drastically curtailing the welfare state.
Crime & Justice: Restore Britain's law and order programme commits to no nonsense policing including widespread return of stop and search, mandatory life sentences for knife crime, expanded…
Defence & Foreign Policy: Restore Britain pledges to scrap all foreign aid spending targets and end the United Kingdom's contributions to international development.
Europe: Restore Britain commits to withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention, and to repealing the Human Rights Act 1998.
Constitution & Devolution: Restore Britain pledges to defund the BBC by ending the licence fee and moving it to a subscription model, to ban the burqa and niqab in public, to abolish kosher and halal…

Traditional Unionist Voice

1 seat · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The TUV's 2024 "Restore The Union" manifesto broadly tracked Reform UK economic positions on tax cuts, deregulation and a smaller state, with a Northern Ireland specific ask of…
NHS & Health: NHS Northern Ireland is devolved.
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto endorsed Reform UK's immigration strategy in full: freezing non essential immigration, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, reforming or leaving the…
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto opposed the UK 2050 net zero target as an economically destructive policy that disproportionately burdens Northern Ireland, pushed for development of domestic oil…
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto broadly tracked Reform UK welfare positions including tighter work capability assessments, opposition to expansion of the benefits framework, and pushing for a…
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto committed to full support for the United Kingdom's defence posture including Trident nuclear renewal and NATO membership.
Europe: The defining 2024 manifesto commitment was complete removal of the Irish Sea border, full restoration of Northern Ireland's place in the UK internal market, completion of…
Constitution & Devolution: The 2024 manifesto positioned the TUV as the hardline unionist alternative to the DUP, with Jim Allister arguing that the DUP's January 2024 Safeguarding the Union deal had…

Ulster Unionist Party

1 seat · Manifesto positions 2024

Economy & Tax: The UUP's 2024 "Making Northern Ireland Work" manifesto pushed for freeports at all main Northern Ireland entry points, a 15 per cent rate of corporation tax for Northern…
NHS & Health: The manifesto positioned health as the UUP's "number one priority" and committed to sustainable multi year investment to transform NHS Northern Ireland delivery, expand…
Immigration & Asylum: The manifesto supported the wider UK enforcement framework on illegal migration and pushed for Northern Ireland's labour market needs to be reflected in skilled worker visa policy.
Education: Education in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Climate & Energy: The manifesto supported the UK 2050 net zero target while emphasising the importance of energy security and grid investment in Northern Ireland.
Housing: Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved.
Welfare & Work: The manifesto opposed the two child benefit cap as it applied in Northern Ireland and supported expansion of carer's allowance, while broadly accepting the wider UK welfare…
Crime & Justice: Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved.
Defence & Foreign Policy: The manifesto committed to full support for the United Kingdom's defence posture including the Trident nuclear deterrent renewal, continued NATO membership and full continued…
Europe: The UUP manifesto described the Windsor Framework as a "stepping stone" in addressing post Brexit issues, advocating full restoration of Northern Ireland's place in the UK…
Constitution & Devolution: The manifesto's defining commitment was pragmatic defence of the Union: scrutiny of constitutional change, representation of Northern Ireland's diverse interests, and Stormont…