After a detailed report from Shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson, the Conservatives have concluded that Britain must leave the ECHR.

• It stops us deporting foreign criminals and protecting our veterans from vexatious legal attacks.
• It prevents us from putting British citizens first in social housing and public services.
• It blocks Parliament from ensuring sentences reflect its intentions.
• It stops us from getting the homes and infrastructure we need built.

Leaving the ECHR will be challenging and complex. It will require a review of over 30 years of domestic legislation and international relations, and a union-wide approach, especially with respect to Northern Ireland.

Only the Conservative Party has done the necessary work to ensure this is done in an orderly way — so that Britain can chart a brighter future outside the Convention, where British politicians, accountable to voters, make laws — not overseas judges.

Once Britain is outside the European Court of Human Rights, we can implement our BORDERS plan — a tougher and more detailed strategy than anything proposed by other parties.

• Ban asylum claims for illegal entrants
• Out of the ECHR, ECAT and repeal HRA
• Removals Force established, to remove 150,000 per year
• Deport all new illegal arrivals within a week, and all foreign criminals
• End the Immigration Tribunal, Judicial Review and legal aid for immigration cases
• Returns agreements backed by visa sanctions
• Support our allies abroad to prevent illegal entry to Europe

View more information about our BORDERS plan here.

The last Conservative government allowed legal migration to get too high, putting pressure on public services. We must take decisive action to bring it down.

• Introduce an annual cap on migration — levels set by those elected by the British people
• Double the residency requirement for Indefinite Leave to Remain from 5 to 10 years
• New powers to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain where someone has become a burden to the UK
• Raise the salary threshold for work visas to £38,700 — protecting British workers

We will be saying more on legal immigration soon.

A stronger economy means living within our means. Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has set out £47 billion in public spending cuts — the most comprehensive plan proposed by any major party in 15 years.

• Reform welfare and get people back to work — saving £23 billion
• Reduce Civil Service headcount by 132,000 (back to 2016 levels) — saving £8 billion
• Implement our BORDERS plan and end asylum hotels — saving £3.5 billion
• Restrict social housing to British nationals — saving £3.9 billion
• Scrap the costly and ineffective green subsidies being pushed by Ed Miliband — saving £1.6 billion
• Cut overseas aid — saving £7 billion

For every £1 saved in public spending, at least half will reduce the deficit and the remainder will go to pro-growth measures. We will:

• Abolish Stamp Duty Land Tax on primary residences
• Scrap business rates for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure — helping ~250,000 local businesses on our high streets
• Introduce a First Job Bonus — a £5,000 tax cut for young people entering work for the first time to go into a savings account
• Repeal the Family Farm Tax — backing farmers
• Repeal the Family Business Tax — supporting the makers and risk takers
• Repeal the Education Tax — supporting parents who invest in their children’s future
• Repeal the Energy Profits Levy — backing our energy industry to create jobs and growth

The 2050 Net Zero target is impossible; we’ve said so clearly.

We all want to protect the environment — but not by imposing unfair costs on working people and businesses. We will:

• Repeal the Climate Change Act and prioritise cheap, reliable, abundant energy
• End Labour’s ban on new oil and gas licences and maximise extraction from the North Sea
• Save the average family £165 a year on electricity bills and deliver major savings for businesses
• Strengthen energy security — boosting domestic supply and reducing dependence on foreign energy

We’ll free businesses from unnecessary red tape that holds back growth. We will:

• Repeal Angela Rayner's Unemployment Bill which costs businesses £5 billion and forces private businesses to host union organisers in their place of work
• Make HMRC accountable by letting small businesses grade every interaction with HMRC
• Reform IR35 rules to simplify tax for the self-employed
• We’ll make it easier to open business bank accounts by overhauling regulations that presume guilt

We are reviewing all regulations that are holding businesses back and we'll be announcing more deregulations in due course.

• Hire 10,000 new police officers over three years
• Stop recording “non-crime hate incidents” and focus on tackling real crime
• Deploy more officers to 2,000 violent crime hotspots
• Triple the use of stop and search
• Clamp down on anti-social behaviour with on-the-spot fines; extend powers to cover buses as well as trains

• We’ll abolish the Sentencing Council, reform the Judicial Conducts Investigation Office, and restore discipline in prisons so that officers — not inmates — are in control
• We’ll abolish the Judicial Appointments Committee, returning responsibility for appointments to the Lord Chancellor, who will be accountable to Parliament

The NHS will remain free at the point of use under a Conservative government.

That’s only possible with a strong economy behind it.

Labour has allowed NHS strikes to continue despite a 28.9% pay rise.

Enough is enough — we will legislate for minimum service levels and ban doctors from striking to protect patient safety.

• Introducing a zero tolerance on violence and poor behaviour in schools, to protect the learning of children who behave and ensure children who don't get the right support.
• Opposing Labour’s educational changes and defending decades of school reform
• Pushing for a nationwide ban on smartphones in schools — evidence shows harm to learning and mental health
• The Conservatives were the first to call for a national inquiry into the rape gang scandal, forcing Labour into a U-turn. We continue to campaign for victims to be heard and supported, and will vote for full transparency by publishing ethnicity data of offenders.

The Conservatives believe in individual liberty and responsibility. We're standing up to those who would erode free expression and personal choice. We will:

• Scrap “non-crime hate incidents” that waste police time and threaten free speech
• Oppose Labour’s plans for Digital ID cards and scrap them when we return to office
• Vote against smoking bans and the “Banter Ban” that would make landlords police pub conversations
• We have commissioned Lord Young of Acton to report on threats to free speech in everyday life later this year

We will always put Britain’s national interest first — ensuring our foreign policy strengthens our sovereignty, defends our allies, and advances British prosperity and security worldwide. We:

• Oppose Labour’s £35bn Chagos Islands surrender, which gives up a critical defence position and makes us pay for it
• Back Ukraine’s right to defend itself against Russian aggression
• Back Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism
• Oppose Labour’s plan to let China build a “super embassy” in London
• Push Labour to raise defence spending to 3% of GDP
• Support service members via a new Armed Forces Housing Association
• Reject Labour’s Brexit capitulation that would turn Britain back into a rule-taker from Brussels

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.

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

We will rewrite the London Plan — clearing the path to tens of thousands of new homes in our capital.

In addition to abolishing Stamp Duty Land Tax on primary residences and our First Job Bonus, we will also:

• End the university debt trap by reducing wasteful taxpayer spending on certain degrees.
• Double funding for apprenticeships so that school leavers have a genuine choice between university and vocational training.