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Britain should commit to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence as a sustained floor, not merely an aspirational target.

The UK should renew and maintain its Trident nuclear deterrent as a necessary contribution to NATO's nuclear posture.

NHS digital records should be expanded so patients have full access to their own data and can share it seamlessly across different providers.

Prevention — addressing obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption — would reduce future NHS demand more effectively than efficiency measures alone.

Expanded use of independent sector providers, paid at NHS tariff rates, can meaningfully reduce waiting times without compromising NHS principles.

NHS staff pay has declined significantly in real terms since 2010 and requires urgent restoration to recruit and retain the workforce needed.

Social care for older and disabled people should be fully state-funded, ending the system under which individuals must deplete assets to pay for care.

NHS waiting lists, which exceeded seven million in 2024, cannot be cleared without a significant and sustained real-terms funding increase.

The NHS must remain free at the point of use for all, funded through general taxation — user charges would deter those who need care most.

The UK needs a sovereign wealth fund to invest North Sea windfall revenues in long-term productive assets for future generations.

Inheritance tax reform should prioritise closing agricultural and business property relief loopholes before any reduction in the headline rate.

The UK housing crisis requires both more permissive planning reform and a significant expansion of publicly funded housebuilding.

London's dominance of the UK economy requires active regional industrial policy — market forces alone will not rebalance it.

The UK's chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and R&D relative to OECD peers is a primary cause of its productivity gap.

The National Living Wage should rise to £15 an hour within this parliament, in line with living cost evidence.

Public sector austerity from 2010 to 2019 caused lasting damage to UK public services and long-run economic capacity.

The UK AI Safety Institute should be given independent statutory authority rather than operating purely under government direction.

Government use of automated decision-making that affects individuals' rights should require mandatory transparency and right of appeal.

UK data protection rules post-Brexit should remain fully equivalent to the EU's GDPR to protect UK-EU data flows.

Requiring age verification for social media platforms is justified even if it creates privacy trade-offs.