Use the National Society of Apprentices Vote Matcher to see which parties you agree with most

National Society of Apprentices Vote Matcher

Political parties have set out their policies for the General Election.

We have summarised each of the parties’ positions on the issues that matter to students, apprentices and young people.

Simply enter the postcode you are registered to vote at below then choose the policies you most agree with.

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Some of the policies you will see have been devolved to Scotland so will apply to England only.

Promises to increase spending on devolved areas will give Scotland more money to spend on these issues.

Some of the policies you will see have been devolved to Wales so will apply to England only.

Promises to increase spending on devolved areas will give Wales more money to spend on these issues.

Colleges, Apprenticeships and Skills

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Scotland more money for these issues.

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Wales more money for these issues.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Fund 100,000 new apprenticeships by cutting ‘low quality’ university degrees
- Loans worth up to four years of education and training for all adults
- Expand ‘Skills Bootcamps’ flexible training courses for adults aged 19 and over
- Work with businesses, training providers and unions to develop the workforce via ‘Skills England’
- Reform the Apprenticeship Levy to help employers fund different qualifications
- Improve careers advice in colleges
- Pay apprentices more by getting rid of the lower £6.40 apprentice minimum wage
- £5,000 grant for adults to spend on training and skills
- Expand higher vocational training and improve the quality of vocational education
- Bring back the Education Maintenance Grant for college and sixth form students
- Pay apprentices at least the living wage instead of the lower £6.40 apprentice minimum wage
- Make sure every college has a mental health counsellor
- Invest £12bn in skills and lifelong education and £3bn in sixth forms
- Reform training to help people into work, with a focus on 16- to 34-year-olds
- Businesses that undertake apprenticeships will pay less tax
- Free education for military personnel during and after service
- Pay apprentices at least the living wage instead of the lower £6.40 apprentice minimum wage
- Support colleges to deliver support such as free travel and meals for students
- £5,000 grants for all over-25s to spend on training and reskilling
- No policies – the Scottish Government makes decisions on this area rather than the UK Government
- Support colleges to train workers in skills that will be important for the future
- Increase opportunities for skills and training.
- Promote a joined-up approach to educational under-achievement across the UK with a focus on adult numeracy.
- Support apprentices e.g. by subsidising travel costs.
- Financial incentives for hiring apprentices and review of Apprenticeship Levy to ensure levy raised is re-invested in NI.
- Increase number of apprenticeships.
- Review how colleges and apprenticeships are funded in England to deliver revised outcomes for NI.
- Review the Apprenticeship Levy and make sure levy raised in NI is re-invested in skills.
- Focus on skills development for those in welfare system.
- Establishment of a Northern Ireland Job Skills Fund.
- Ensure a minimum annual investment of no less than £35 million into the Skills Fund.
- Properly fund apprenticeships and expand Higher-Level Apprenticeships, particularly in places of disadvantage.
- Level the playing field for further and higher education colleges and working towards a cohesive ecosystem of third-level education.
- Pay parity between Further Education Lecturers and school teaching staff.

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The Cost of Living, Pay and Benefits

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Keep the minimum wage how it is currently set
- Cut National Insurance by 2%, with no increase to income tax or VAT
- Maintain the price cap on energy bills and extend £2 bus fares for five years
- Reduce spending on disability and health-related benefits by £12bn
- Consider the cost of living when setting the minimum wage and make sure all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage
- No increase to National Insurance, income tax or VAT
- Bring down energy bills through publicly owned green energy company
- Review Universal Credit so it makes work pay and tackles poverty
- Independent review to recommend a genuine living wage
- Cut energy bills through energy and insultation upgrades to homes
- Tackle rising food prices via a National Food Strategy and freeze rail fares
- Replace Universal Credit sanctions with incentives to get into work
- £15-an-hour minimum wage regardless of age (currently £11.44, and less for under-21s)
- Long-term vision of a universal basic income
- Free bus travel for under-18s
- Increase Universal Credit by £40 a week
- Lift the income threshold at which someone starts paying income tax to £20,000 (currently £12,570)
- Scrap VAT on energy bills and scrap taxes encouraging the use of renewable energy to cut energy costs
- Withdraw benefits if job seekers do not find work within four months or accept a job after two offers
- Give Wales the powers to change income tax rates
- Pilot universal basic income
- Give Wales the powers to lower energy and water prices
- ‘Essentials guarantee’ as the legal minimum for Universal Credit
- Independence for Scotland so it can set its own priorities, including on the cost of living
- Increase the minimum wage to at least the national living wage
- ‘Essentials guarantee’ so everyone can afford basics such as food and utilities
- Scrap the two-child benefit cap and bedroom tax
- Real living wage for all, regardless of age, which would rise with inflation
- Cap the price of food essentials when prices are rising fastest
- Separate electricity and gas prices to bring down energy costs
- Allow Scotland to run a universal basic income trial
- Scrap the two-child benefit cap and bedroom tax
- Give NI the power to set its own minimum wage.
- Give NI the power to set its own tax rates.
- Make childcare more affordable.
- Keep the minimum wage set as it is and oppose the freezing of personal tax bands.
- Reductions in National Insurance and increase benefits in line with inflation, with essentials guarantee for Universal Credit.
- Remove two-child limit on UC.
- Increase tax on super wealthy to cut tax for working people.
- Essentials guarantee in the social security systems people’s incomes cover the cost of living.
- End the benefits cap, bedroom tax and two-child limit.
- Reduce corporation tax in Northern Ireland to 15%.
- Increase value of carer’s allowance as well as the cap and abolish universal credit two-child limit.
- Flexible working and parental leave for both parents.
- Ensure an Essentials Guarantee within Universal Credit to cover life’s essentials.
- Lobby for a robust and cross-cutting Anti-Poverty Strategy.
- Explore pilot schemes of Universal Basic Income.
- Reform of Universal Credit regulations to ensure maternity allowance is treated as earnings rather than unearned income.

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Workers’ Rights and Employment

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Make sure trade union workers in certain services continue to have to provide a minimum level of service during strike action
- Ban exploitative zero-hours contracts
- End fire and rehire practices
- Create a ‘Single Enforcement Body’ to ensure employment rights are upheld
- Make flexible working a right on day one of a job
- Right to request a fixed-hours contract for zero-hours and agency workers after 12 months in a job
- 20% higher minimum wage for people on zero-hours contracts at times of normal demand
- Move to a four-day working week
- Give all workers equal rights from day one of employment
- Introduce a ‘Charter of Workers’ Rights’ with the right to strike at its heart
- Scrap employment laws that hold back businesses, including by making it easier to hire and fire workers.
- Devolve employment law to Wales
- Reverse anti-strike laws
- Abolish compulsory zero-hours contracts
- Ban fire and rehire practices
- Ban exploitative zero-hours contracts
- Ban fire and rehire practices
- Amend the definition of ‘worker’ to strengthen protections
- Protect the right to strike and scrap anti-strike laws
- Begin transition to four-day working week across all sectors with no loss of pay
- Ban zero-hours contracts
- Immediately repeal anti-trade union laws
- Give private sector employees the right to buy the company they work for
- Strong legal protections for workers.
- Ban exploitative zero-hours contracts.
- End fire and rehire practices.
- Create a ‘Single Enforcement Body’ to ensure employment rights are upheld.
- Scrap anti-protest laws to support trade unions’ right to organise and advocate.
- Support flexible working and parental leave for both parents
- Remove barriers to women’s employment
- Recognise and reward all education professionals
- Pledge to end zero-hour contracts and will continue to campaign for an equal minimum wage to prevent pay discrimination against young people.
- Flexible working is a day one right
- Expanding trade union rights
- Increase maternity pay

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The NHS, Health and Wellbeing

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Scotland more money for these issues.

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Wales more money for these issues.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Increase NHS spending above inflation every year
- 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors
- Increase the expansion of NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression by 50%
- Increase employment support for people with severe mental illness by 140,000 places
- 40,000 more NHS appointments a week
- Hubs with drop-in mental health support for young people
- Trial ‘Neighbourhood Health Centres’ to bring together services and relieve pressures on hospitals
- Right to see a GP within seven days, or 24 hours if urgent
- Guarantee access to an NHS dentist for everyone needing urgent care
- Mental health hubs for young people in every community
- Extend young people’s mental health services up to the age of 25
- Oppose NHS privatisation
- Ensure everyone can access mental health therapies within 28 days
- £28bn to reduce waiting times, guarantee access to an NHS dentist and boost staff pay
- £20bn to introduce free personal social care
- Frontline NHS staff to pay zero basic rate of income tax for three years
- Use private healthcare capacity
- Give 20% tax relief to private healthcare providers
- Give NHS patients vouchers for private treatment if they do not receive NHS treatment in a certain time
- Oppose NHS privatisation
- Give NHS staff backdated pay rises as soon as possible
- Recruit 500 more GPs in Wales
- Deliver a national social care service for Wales
- Oppose NHS privatisation
- Boost NHS spending by a minimum of £10bn a year
- Increase investment in NHS England staff to meet Scotland’s NHS pay deals
- Decriminalise drugs and introduce supervised drug consumption facilities
- Ban trade deals with countries that would impact people’s access to healthcare, open the NHS up to privatisation or impact public health initiatives
- Decriminalise the possession of drugs and introduce safe drug consumption facilities
- Create an all-Ireland national health service.
- Tackle hospital waiting lists through longer term funding.
- Drive down waiting lists through partnerships between the NHS and private healthcare providers.
- Fellowships for young GPs in substantive posts.
- Increased investment in health services.
- Introduce UK air quality limits in line with WHO levels.
- Support the ban of harmful ‘conversion therapy practices.
- Policy of zero new HIV diagnoses by 2030.
- Address health inequalities through an innovative initiative.
- Pay parity for healthcare workforce.
- Lobby for health service transformation intervention.
- Seek dedicated resource to reduce out waiting lists.
- Argue for terms and conditions for health service staff which reflect their contribution to our society and address workforce retention challenges.
- Argue for a government backed indemnity scheme for GPs in Northern Ireland to avert the unnecessary closure of local practices.
- Fight for the expansion of Multi-Disciplinary Teams across Northern Ireland.

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Some of the policies you will see have been devolved to Scotland so will apply to England only.

Promises to increase spending on devolved areas will give Scotland more money to spend on these issues.

Some of the policies you will see have been devolved to Wales so will apply to England only.

Promises to increase spending on devolved areas will give Wales more money to spend on these issues.

Universities and funding

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Scotland more money for these issues.

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Wales more money for these issues.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Close ‘poor-quality’ university courses
- Make sure students get the contact hours they are promised and their exams get marked
- Spend £2bn more a year on research and development
- Make universities financially stable
- Improve access to universities and raise teaching standards
- Give universities longer term research and development funding
- Bring back maintenance grants for disadvantaged students
- Review how universities and higher education is funded
- Legally require universities to protect student mental health
- Get rid of tuition fees for undergraduates
- Bring back maintenance grants for all students
- Cancel graduate debt in the long term
- Stop charging interest on student loans
- Extend the amount of time graduates pay off student loans from 30 to 45 years
- Write off tuition fee debt for NHS staff over 10 years of service
- Increase the number of students studying at Welsh universities
- Increase the number of students from Wales going to university
- Make higher education more flexible so its works alongside people’s lives
- Defend free tuition for students from Scotland who go to Scottish universities
- Prioritise research and investment in AI
- Visa scheme for Palestinian students and academics to come to the UK
- Support universities to train workers in future skills
- Deliver the expansion of Ulster University’s Magee campus.
- Increase UK-wide spending on research and development.
- Establish clusters of universities, businesses and clinicians to accelerate the use of new medical technology and diagnostics.
- Review how universities and student finance is funded in England to deliver revised outcomes for NI.
- Greater investment in research, innovation and skills.
- Support properly funded higher and further education to expand opportunity for all people, regardless of backgrounds.
- Fundamental review of Higher Education funding with a mix of teaching and research funding for university as well as financial support for students.
- A full-size university campus at Magee of at least 10,000 students and raise the Maximum Student Number (MaSN) Cap in Northern Ireland.

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International students and migration

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Make international students pay more for visas and to use the NHS
- Reduce migration by introducing a legal cap
- Remove illegal migrants to Rwanda until small boat crossings are stopped
- Reduce net migration
- Place ‘appropriate restrictions’ on visas and link immigration to skills needs
- Scrap the Rwanda scheme and target people-smuggling gangs behind small boat crossings
- Stop including international students in migration targets
- Transfer policy-making on international students away from the Home Office
- End the hostile environment policy and scrap the Rwanda scheme
- Give migrants access to public funds such as student support and benefits
- Allow international students to bring family members to the UK
- End the hostile environment policy
- Stop family members coming to the UK with international students
- Restrict which international students can stay in the UK after their studies
- Freeze all non-essential immigration
- Give migrants access to public funds such as student support and benefits
- Keep the two-year graduate route visa and oppose increases to visa fees
- Oppose the hostile environment policy
- Give Scotland the powers to make decisions on immigration
- Give migrants access to public funds such as student support and benefits
- Scrap the Rwanda scheme and support asylum seekers
- Scrap income requirement for spousal / partner visas
- Scrap the Rwanda scheme and laws that target the right to claim asylum
- Increase benefits, employment and training support for asylum seekers
- No policies on international students and migration.
- Easier permanent residency for international students qualifying in healthcare.
- Protect against illegal immigration and make the immigration system more responsive to skills needs.
- Scrap ban on international students bringing family members to the UK and make visa system affordable.
- Access to student support and benefits for migrants.
- Grant overseas students two years to find work after graduation.
- Zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration.
- Support government measures to target the people traffickers through cooperation with other European countries.
- Increase the number of staff working on asylum applications threefold to streamline immigration system.
- Repeal Rwanda Policy, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
- Advocate for the establishment of safe and legal routes for refugees to seek asylum.
- Promote equal opportunities for integration into society for migrants.

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Housing and Renting

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Scotland more money for these issues.

Most of these policies apply to England only but promises to increase spending will give Wales more money for these issues.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Stop landlords being able to evict you through no fault of your own
- Abolish stamp duty (tax you pay when you buy property or land) for homes up to £425,000 for first-time buyers
- Introduce a new ‘Help to Buy’ loan scheme
- Strengthen landlords’ right to evict on the grounds of antisocial behaviour
- Stop landlords being able to evict you through no fault of your own
- Empower tenants to challenge unreasonable rent increases
- Freedom to buy scheme to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder
- Reform the planning system to build 1.5m new houses
- Stop landlords being able to evict you through no fault of your own
- Make the length of rental contracts three years by default
- Build 380,000 new homes a year including 150,000 social homes
- Rent-to-own model for social housing to give tenants an increasing stake in their property
- Stop landlords being able to evict you through no fault of your own
- Implement rent controls if rents are unaffordable to local people
- Build 150,000 new social homes each year
- Private Residential Tenancy Boards to resolve disputes
- Cut stamp duty (tax you pay when you buy property or land) on all properties, and scrap it on all properties below £750,000
- Abandon plans to scrap ‘Section 21’ no-fault evictions
- Boost monitoring, appeals and enforcement processes for renters
- Prioritise local people ahead of foreign nationals for social housing places
- Rent controls to keep the private rented sector affordable to local people
- Introduce a right to adequate housing
- Expand the amount of social and municipal housing stock in Wales
- Help to buy ISA scheme for first-time buyers
- Make sure rental costs are taken into account when setting housing benefits
- Deliver more social housing
- Encourage investment in house building
- Rent controls as part of trial of universal basic income.
- Deliver a sustainable housing system in NI.
- Increase energy efficiency of private rented homes and social housing.
- Insulate and retrofit homes to reduce energy bills.
- Reduce energy costs via creation of an All-Islands energy market.
- Collaboration with next Government to develop and finance a robust strategy to tackle the housing crisis.
- Fight to ensure that the appropriate funding is made available to the Northern Ireland Executive to address the housing crisis.

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Climate and Energy

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and treble offshore wind capacity
- Continue extracting North Sea oil and gas, allowing companies to apply each year
- £1.1bn to ensure the transition to clean energy is made in the UK
- Scale up nuclear power
- Double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030
- Create publicly owned green energy company, Great British Energy
- Extend lifetime of existing nuclear power stations and build new ones
- Ban fracking for good and stop granting new coal licences
- Net zero carbon emissions by 2045
- 90% of electricity to be generated by renewables by 2030
- Maintain fracking ban and ban new coal mines
- National and local citizens assemblies to involve people in decisions about the climate crisis
- £40bn to decarbonise the energy system by 2030
- Wind to provide 70% of energy by 2030
- Stop all new fossil fuel extractions and cancel recently issued fossil fuel licences
- Phase out nuclear power
- Scrap goals to reach net zero carbon emissions
- Stop giving money to companies that use and produce renewable energy
- Fast-track licences of North Sea oil and gas
- Fast-track clean nuclear energy
- Net zero carbon emissions in Wales by 2035
- Set up a national energy company for Wales
- No new licences for oil and gas drilling
- No new nuclear power stations
- Make decisions on oil and gas extractions according climate obligations
- Support North Sea oil and gas workers as part of the transition to green energy
- No new nuclear power plants in Scotland
- Ban new coal licences
- Revoke existing oil and gas licences and prohibit new ones
- Stop giving fossil fuel companies funding and tax breaks, and stop investing public sector pensions in fossil fuel companies
- Return the National Grid to public ownership
- End support for new nuclear power stations
- Meet climate change targets through fair and just transition to new zero.
- Fair transition to net zero by 2050.
- Just transition to net zero part funded by tax increases on fossil fuel companies and wealth.
- Oppose rollbacks on net zero goals new oil and gas licences.
- Ban fracking and opening of new coal mines and pits.
- Strive for an 82% or better reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.
- Support the UK’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.
- Tackle Lough Neagh crisis by pressing NI Water for an urgent assessment of the proximity to a critical tipping point where Lough Neagh water may become unusable for drinking.
- Hold government at Stormont and Westminster responsible for the delivery of a Just Transition, including ensuring that it is a central tenet of all climate action plans by Executive Departments.
- Support for the establishment of an Independent Environmental Protection Agency.
- Prioritise water quality, support new legislation on clean air and fight for a Lough Neagh recovery plan.
- Lobby the next government on this issue in order to end the scandal of animal abuse across these islands.

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Rights, Equality and Liberation

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Clarify that sex means ‘biological sex’ in the Equality Act
- Prevent the private prescription of medicines that stop puberty from happening
- Expand the number of women’s health hubs
- Introduce controls on ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ initiatives and spending
- 80 new rape courts to tackle violence against women and girls
- Full right to equal pay for disabled people and Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people
- Reform gender recognition law, retaining the need for a gender dysphoria diagnosis
- Ban any practices which try to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity
- Make misogyny a hate crime
- De-medicalise the gender recognition process, recognise non-binary identities in law, and ban any practices which try to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation
- Implement a Race Equality Strategy
- New accessibility standards for public spaces.
- Make misogyny a hate crime and new strategy to tackle gender-based violence
- Right to self-identification for trans and non-binary people
- Extend pay gap protections to all protected characteristics
- Scrap the Prevent programme
- Leave the European Convention on Human Rights, reform the Human Rights Act
- Replace the Equalities Act and scrap ‘Diversity, Equality and Inclusion’ rules
- Change the definition of hate crime
- Ban ‘transgender ideology’ in schools
- Create a de-medicalised gender self-identification system in Wales
- Increase convictions for crimes against women and girls
- Ban any practices which try to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity
- Adopt the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People into law.
- Review UK law to ensure abortion is treated primarily as a healthcare matter
- Advance and champion LGBTI rights
- Stay in the European Convention on Human Rights
- Oppose changes to the Equality Act on redefining sex as ‘biological sex’
- Reform the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Extend the scope of the Equality Act to add menstruation, menopause and perimenopause to list of protected characteristics
- Deliver a strategy to address violence against women and girls.
- Give all women access to safe and legal health services they are entitled to.
- Equal rights and opportunities for all citizens.
- 80 new rape courts to tackle violence against women and girls.
- Full right to equal pay for disabled people and Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people.
- Reform gender recognition law, retaining the need for a gender dysphoria diagnosis.
- Ban any practices which try to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Ban any practices which try to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into UK law.
- Commitment to supporting gender equality, removing barriers to women’s participation in employment.
- Flexible working and parental leave for both parents.
- Tackle violence against women and girls.
- Supports banning conversion therapy.
- Opposition to gender self-identification and transgender rights.
- Fight for funding for LGBTQIA+ organisations and support services.
- Ensure a comprehensive ban on conversion practices.
- Ensuring provision of gender-affirming healthcare services.
- Tackle violence against women and girls.
- Campaign for a society that breaks down the negative attitudes and discrimination that affect disabled people, including through addressing disability hate crime.
- Supports for robust standalone hate crime legislation.
- Strong support for the Irish language sector, including ensuring that Irish-medium education is fully supported.

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Society, Democracy and Young People

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Scotland.

Most of these policies apply across the UK, including in Wales.

Choose up to 3 sets of policies you like the most.

- Mandatory National Service for all school leavers at 18, with a choice between military and civic service
- Early support hubs for 11- to 25-year-olds in every community by 2030
- Keep voter ID and ensure veterans ID cards are valid voter ID
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and keep voter ID
- Guarantee of training, apprenticeship or help to find work for all 18- to 21-year-olds
- Two weeks’ work experience for all young people
- Youth support hubs in every community as part of knife crime action plan
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID
- Change how MPs are elected and reform the House of Lords
- Fix the UK’s relationship with the EU and seek to join the single market
- Rejoin Erasmus+ for young people to study, work and live abroad
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID
- Give anyone who lives in the UK legally the right to vote regardless of nationality
- Change how MPs are elected and replace the House of Lords
- Rejoin Erasmus+ for young people to study, work and live abroad
- Change how MPs are elected and replace the House of Lords
- Stop postal voting apart from for the elderly, disabled or those who cannot leave their homes
- Reopen ‘High Intensity Training Camps’ for young offenders
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID
- Give more political powers to the Welsh Government and Welsh Parliament
- Change how MPs are elected and abolish the House of Lords
- Make it illegal for a politician to deliberately mislead the public
- Rejoin the EU as an independent Scotland
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID
- Give anyone who lives in the UK legally the right to vote regardless of nationality
- Change how MPs are elected and abolish the House of Lords
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID
- Give anyone who lives in the UK legally the right to vote regardless of nationality
- Change how MPs are elected and replace the House of Lords
- Scrap of anti-protest laws
- UK and Irish governments to set a date for referendum on Irish unification.
- NI to rejoin the EU as part of a united Ireland.
- Parity of esteem for Irish culture and language.
- Fair funding for NI and regional balance in investment.
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and keep voter ID.
- Guarantee of training, apprenticeship or help to find work for all 18- to 21-year-olds.
- Two weeks’ work experience for all young people.
- Youth support hubs in every community as part of knife crime action plan.
- Votes for 16- and 17-year-olds in all elections and scrap voter ID.
- Change how MPs are elected and reform the House of Lords.
- Give anyone who lives in NI legally the right to vote regardless of nationality.
- Rejoin Erasmus+ for young people to study, work and live abroad.
- Committed to defending and promoting Northern Ireland’s place within the UK.
- Remains sceptical of the Windsor Framework and will scrutinise aspects of the Windsor Framework which undermine Northern Ireland’s sovereignty.
- Committed to creating equal opportunities for young people with disabilities.
- Support the Police Service of Northern Ireland and civic society to address and end race related intimidation and discrimination.
- Campaigning for a New Ireland and engaging citizens in an inclusive conversation about constitutional change.
- Maximise the opportunities of dual-market access, by advocating for the competitive advantages of the Northern Ireland Protocol / Windsor Framework.
- Ensuring UK Shared Prosperity Fund matches or exceeds funding previously provided by EU.
- Press for reform, via both Westminster and Stormont, which prevents one party from collapsing devolution and removes the veto from one party alone while maintaining the principles of power-sharing and partnership.

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