Policies
Fixing the UK's Broken Politics
The True & Fair Party exists to tackle our debilitating democratic deficit by proposing ideas that can modernise and strengthen the way we are governed. Read our Pre-Election Manifesto to understand what we are fighting for in the next general election and why you should support us.
Environment Policy Proposals
The urgency of addressing environmental challenges has never been more pressing, with climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution threatening the very fabric of our planet. As we navigate this pivotal moment in history, it is imperative to shift from mere rhetoric to concrete, transformative policies that can drive real change.
Education Policy Proposals
To be published shortly
Policy Toplines
EDUCATION
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EDUCATION
- Reform Ofsted and terms in which they operate by abolishing current system of gradings and replace with credible portraits of institutions
- Launch consultation on introducing a fourth short ‘Sensory Summer’ Term with a non-academic curriculum – e.g. art, music, drama, nature studies, cooking and nutrition, sports
Childcare and Nurseries
- Independent review into cost and proper subsidising of childcare
- Address funding shortfall in nurseries
- Reduce administrative burden on nursery staff and owners
- Incentivise partnerships between corporate, communities and charities
Primary School
- Increase the start of school full-time in the September after their fifth birthday
- In primary school, continue the focus on whole self education
- Coding curriculum from 7 years so all students develop digital fluency
- More focus on 3 Cs – creativity, collaboration, and communication
Secondary School
- New Year 8 Skills Pathway Option and new core GCSE option
- Student Assessment Learner Profile by end of Year 11 to replace exam grades
- Develop AI technology platform for teacher curriculum resources
- Enhance student ability to experience a personalised learning journey via AI
Universities
- Introduction of Phil Augur review to reduce University fees from £9,250 to £7,500
- Increase state's contribution to student loans to 50 / 50
- Student debt interest to be linked to the rate of 10 year government borrowing not RPI - reviewed annually to smooth out any unexpected spikes
- Introduce differential fees for certain medical related courses, science, and technology to encourage more uptake
Technical Training
- Set target of 50% of young people to do apprenticeships
- Incentivise young people – e.g. students on the New Year 8 Skills Pathway and core GCSE options moving onto a degree, apprenticeships or technical training
- Incentivise more employers to offer technical apprenticeships
Private Schools
- Private schools to retain charitable status but new requirements to qualify for the status
NHS
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NHS
- Audit to understand the baseline and inform an accountable workforce plan
- Fast track newly graduated overseas doctors and other healthcare professions
- Scrap layers of admin, paperwork, forms so clinicians can concentrate on treating patients
- Give clinicians more autonomy and respect their professional responsibility
- All private health care providers (including individual providers) to contribute a fixed proportion of their turnover (not profits) to the education/training of health care staff and professions
- Look at partnership programmes on early intervention, education, lifestyle programmes to tackle the 3Ds – Diabetes (and obesity) Depression, Dementia
- Shift to Prevention Services: Make national public health service the driving force behind prevention, with active inclusion in other departments’ policy output - e.g. taxing alcohol, highly processed food and sugary drinks, drug policy.
- Make AI and digital innovations and integral tool of health provision ensuring that innovations and profits from data mining are shared with the NHS
- Audit NHS purchasing and services -
- Commission report into an NHS National Pharma Company focussing on generic medications
- All profits from care and health sector to be taxed in UK and not off-shored
- Retirement Volunteering Vouchers - 15 hours per week to work in community services and social care
- Bring together a citizen’s assembly to help produce a solution to social care
- Environmental audit of the NHS
- Aim for zero emission hospitals and GP surgeries by 2030
YOUR COMMUNITY
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YOUR COMMUNITY
High Streets
- Transforming UK high streets through community engagement strategy
- Develop and improve high street plans to meet today’s community’s changing needs.
- Re-energise programme through WIN Centres - Walk In social enterprises on High Streets offering a range of social, leisure, respite and health options for different age groups
- These Community Hubs would be excluded from business rates and be run in partnership with local services, charities and business
Housing
- Turbocharge free insulation programme for homes with income of less than £25k
- Introduce Right to Housing Act
- Blanket ban on green field development
- Subsidised smart home and assistive technology for the elderly
- Support new cooperative villages to address affordable housing for younger people and families and enable older people to stay in the community for longer
JUSTICE
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JUSTICE
- Reform and increase investment into the courts system – e.g increase sitting days and number of judges
- Introduction of UK Judicial College
- Modern Magna Carta to include fundamental rights - to accommodation, to food, to access to justice and requirement for the Child Rights Convention to be taken into account by the Court
- Courts of the Future – explore and invest in digital and technological solutions, such as legal research technology
- Judges to have access to digital tools such as Quick Check Judicial
- Enact the Christopher Bellamy Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid recommendations, including a 15% increase in rates for solicitors and barristers
- Recruit more prosecuting staff and barristers to increase access to legal aid
- Recruitment drive for duty solicitors
- Investment in AI online solutions
CRIME AND
SAFETY
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CRIME AND SAFETY
- Reopen a number of police stations to ensure bigger community footprint
- Every police station to have a violence against women officer and unit
- Minimum of 50% of prison sentence to be served before consideration for parole
- Negotiate access to European Schengen Information System
Police
- Scrap Police and Crime Commissioners
- Set up new digital forensic police team, to be combined with a recruitment drive for officers with cyber skills
- Update the Police National Computer, which is 48 years old
IMMIGRATION
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IMMIGRATION
- Amnesty for people that have been in the UK for 10 years + and are contributing to the economy
- Pursue needs based immigration
- Major recruitment drive, better pay and quicker vetting of Border staff
- Make safe and legal routes available (to reduce exploitation, abuse, loss of life and to reduce smuggling and trafficking)
- Establish a new Dubs Scheme to resettle unaccompanied child refugees
- Roll out the system of independent guardians in England and Wales to represent, support and safeguard child victims of human trafficking, as legislated for in the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015
