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 lower corporation tax and reduction of trade friction created by the Windsor Framework. The framing was economic recovery requiring removal of the Sea border first.
NHS Northern Ireland is devolved. The manifesto pushed for sustained UK Government funding consequentials and opposition to UK level health reforms that the TUV argued threatened the NHS as a unionist institution.
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 Refugee Convention, and barring illegal entrants from settlement. The TUV did not propose a Northern Ireland specific immigration regime.
Reform UK's February 2026 Operation Restoring Justice paper escalated the immigration commitment to 600,000 deportations over one parliament with Refugee Convention disapplication for five years. The TUV position has been adopted by the formal political ally and exceeded by the ally's further escalation.
Education in Northern Ireland is devolved. The manifesto's Westminster engagement focused on funding consequentials and on maintaining the UK educational research framework as a unionist institution.
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, gas and nuclear, and aligned broadly with Reform UK's energy positioning. The TUV is the most explicitly net zero sceptical unionist party.
Housing in Northern Ireland is largely devolved. The manifesto pushed for restoration of the housing market by removing Sea border related supply constraints and for additional UK capital funding for Northern Ireland housing through Stormont.
The manifesto broadly tracked Reform UK welfare positions including tighter work capability assessments, opposition to expansion of the benefits framework, and pushing for a real living wage. The TUV did not commit to specific UK welfare reforms beyond those Reform proposed.
Criminal justice in Northern Ireland is devolved. The manifesto focused on opposition to legacy of the Troubles legislation that the TUV argued failed victims, and on stronger sentencing on the Reform UK model.
The manifesto committed to full support for the United Kingdom's defence posture including Trident nuclear renewal and NATO membership. The TUV positioned itself as among the most explicitly unionist parties on UK defence as a constitutional question.
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 Brexit, withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights, and removal of all EU law application in Northern Ireland. Jim Allister described the Windsor Framework's formal sign off as "a day of shame" for the United Kingdom.
Reform UK adopted ECHR exit as official policy through 2025. The Conservative Party adopted ECHR exit at the October 2025 conference under Kemi Badenoch. The Sea border and Windsor Framework EU law application remain in operation. The TUV's central constitutional position has been adopted by two larger UK parties and remains undelivered.
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 failed to remove the Sea border and represented "the greatest deception ever attempted on the unionist people". Allister has argued publicly that the TUV prefers "British rule from Westminster over Sinn Féin rule from Stormont", a position implying preference for direct rule over the current power sharing arrangement.
Allister won North Antrim from Ian Paisley Jr by 450 votes on 4 July 2024, ending a Paisley dynasty in the seat that had begun in 1970. The TUV is in formal political agreement with Reform UK. The Stormont Executive continues to operate with Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill as First Minister and the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly as deputy First Minister, the configuration the TUV manifesto rejected.