A kinder, fairer, prosperous Britain

• New ‘Truth Law’ - putting into law the Ministerial Code, Nolan Principles, prerogative powers, lying in office
• Compulsory weekly MP surgeries and Parliamentary sitting for 40 weeks a year
• New Office of Public Spending & Procurement akin to the Office of Budget Responsibility
• New Legislation Committee to scrutinise drafting of all proposed Bills before they go before Parliament
• Defining in law the role of the Leader of the House and the process for the Business of the House
• Introduce scrutiny of secondary legislation
• Fundamental reform of Whips' Offices
• Ban sale of alcohol in the House of Commons

• New Act of Government to apply to local government officers
• Increasing devolution with increased scope and financial independence for local government

• Reduce to a 400 seat chamber
• No member to sit for longer than 10 years
• No hereditary peers
• PMs who lose office via a vote of no confidence cannot make honorary nominations

• Support proportional representation
• Introduce Automatic Voter Registration to address under representation and increase participation of young people and minorities groups
• Compulsory voting from 21 years old

• Citizens' Assembly on lowering the voting age to 16
• Digital voting

• Set up an Economic Crime Unit to tackle economic crime which costs the UK at least £290bn a year
• Getting tough on economic crime – e.g the annual £1.27 billion lost to fraud, bribery, and corruption in the NHS, and 25% of public procurement funds lost to corruption each year

• New Transparency Law for overseas companies ownership of UK property
• Ban paid lobbying by sitting MPs
• Introduce a register of Think Tanks and their funders
• Introduce Ethics in Public Life legislation, to address ‘the revolving doors’ between public officials who move between the public, political and private sectors.

• National Insurance to be rolled into income tax to ensure lowest paid are not disproportionately impacted
• Introduce regionally applied living wage from 18 years old to replace minimum wage
• Introduce online/platform transaction tax aimed at operators not consumers
• Reform of inheritance tax
• Close tax loopholes
• Increase Entrepreneur Relief to £10 million and add a new Green Entrepreneur Tax Relief of £12 million
• Increase tax on dividend income tax, corporation tax, CGT

• Bounce back loans to be written off for the 3 million excluded from support during the pandemic
• Investment in tech and digital equipment to be treated as a capital investment rather than an operating expense

• Apply business rates on agricultural businesses
• Property owners to pay business rate tax, not tenants, plus more frequent revaluations

There is no doubt that Brexit has damaged the UK, and that we need to find ways of minimising that damage.

Once the Tories are defeated, the UK can sit down with our friends and neighbours in the EU and negotiate a closer, more pragmatic, mutually beneficial relationship, without losing our independence or sovereignty.

A closer connection with Europe is economically, environmentally and security wise superior to any other relationship we can have with any other international friends. True & Fair would pursue such a relationship to boost economic growth, collaborate on environmental policies and to ensure the security of our nation.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 to retain charitable status but new requirements to qualify for the status

• Reinforce COP 26 endorsements
• Ending deforestation by 2030
• Turbocharge free insulation programme for homes with income of less than £25k
• Invest in initiatives, innovations and targeted plans that will unlock the benefits of climate change mitigation

• New Clean Air Act
• Halt all investment in new fossil fuel projects
• Every government department to have a new dedicated Environmental Impact Unit
• Increase investment in cleaner, cheaper energy such as biofuel, waste, sun, wave and wind

• In line with the commitment for UK to reach net zero by 2050, consult with business on their plans to reach net-zero, commitment to green job creation and unlocking economic growth by 2025 to reach 2050 net zero targets
• Incentivise cleaning, capture and new green innovation with new Green Entrepreneur Relief
• Encourage oil and gas companies to focus 50-75% of their investment intent in low and zero-carbon products and services

• Speed up of the network of public charging points
• By 2035, no sales of new internal combustion engine passenger cars
• Internationally, work with other countries on laws and regulations to stop cruise ships dumping waste into oceans, polluting beaches, contaminating coral reefs, and destroying marine ecology

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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