Policies
Labour policies
Labour has published 27 commitments across 10 of 10 policy areas tracked here, last checked 18 October 2026.
Labour on economy and tax
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Not raise National Insurance, the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax, or VAT. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Balance the current budget and have debt falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the forecast. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Charge VAT and business rates on private schools, close non-dom and carried interest tax loopholes, and invest in HMRC to cut tax avoidance. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Labour's fiscal plan · no date shown by source |
Labour on NHS and health
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Provide 40,000 more NHS appointments a week in England, so patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future · no date shown by source |
| Double the number of CT and MRI scanners, provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit 8,500 more mental health staff. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future · no date shown by source |
| Establish a National Care Service in the next parliament, providing free personal care for older people. | announced | Six things Andy Burnham announced today at Labour Party Conference · 29 September 2026 |
Labour on immigration and asylum
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Create a Border Security Command with hundreds of new investigators, funded by ending the Rwanda partnership. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Hire more caseworkers to clear the asylum backlog, end asylum hotels, and set up a returns unit with 1,000 extra staff. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Reduce net migration, reform the points-based immigration system and strengthen the Migration Advisory Committee. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth · no date shown by source |
Labour on housing
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Build 1.5 million new homes over the parliament, prioritising brownfield land, and build a new generation of new towns. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth · no date shown by source |
| Give first-time buyers the first chance to buy new homes and introduce a permanent mortgage guarantee scheme. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth · no date shown by source |
| Run a council house building programme and remove the Right to Buy from newly built homes, keeping it for existing homes. | announced | Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference 2026 · 29 September 2026 |
Labour on crime and justice
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Recruit thousands of new neighbourhood police officers and introduce Respect Orders to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Take back our streets · no date shown by source |
| Aim to halve knife crime, and violence against women and girls, within a decade. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Take back our streets · no date shown by source |
Labour on education
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Recruit 6,500 new teachers in key subjects, paid for by ending tax breaks for private schools. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Labour's first steps for change · no date shown by source |
| Fund free breakfast clubs in every primary school and open 3,000 additional nurseries in primary school space. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity · no date shown by source |
Labour on energy and net zero
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Set up Great British Energy, a publicly owned clean power company, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas companies. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Labour's first steps for change · no date shown by source |
| Double onshore wind, triple solar and quadruple offshore wind by 2030, and issue no new licences to explore new oil and gas fields. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower · no date shown by source |
| Bring energy costs in line with other European countries within ten years and create Great British Grid, a publicly owned body within Great British Energy. | announced | Six things Andy Burnham announced today at Labour Party Conference · 29 September 2026 |
Labour on defence and foreign policy
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Set out the path to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence and hold a Strategic Defence Review in the first year. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Keep the UK's nuclear deterrent and apply a NATO test to major defence programmes. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Strong foundations · no date shown by source |
| Keep supporting Ukraine, recognise a Palestinian state within a peace process, and restore aid to 0.7% of gross national income when fiscal circumstances allow. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected · no date shown by source |
Labour on welfare and pensions
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Keep the triple lock on the state pension and review Universal Credit so it makes work pay and tackles poverty. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity · no date shown by source |
| Keep the triple lock for this parliament, then from April 2030 raise the state pension each year by at least prices or 2.5%. | announced | Andy Burnham's speech to Labour Party Conference 2026 · 29 September 2026 |
Labour on democracy and the constitution
| Commitment | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Give 16- and 17-year-olds the vote in all elections and strengthen the rules on donations to political parties. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Serving the country · no date shown by source |
| Remove hereditary peers, retire peers at the end of the parliament in which they reach 80, and replace the Lords with another chamber. | manifesto | Change, Labour Party manifesto 2024: Serving the country · no date shown by source |
| Set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform, to report before the next general election. | announced | Six things Andy Burnham announced today at Labour Party Conference · 29 September 2026 |
A commitment is a position the party has published on its own website or in its own documents, summarised here in our own words. We check each party's site regularly and show the date of the last check above. Every row links to the party's own document.