The 2024 manifesto promised £17 billion of tax cuts by 2029/30, headlined by a further 2p cut to employee National Insurance taking it to 6 per cent, the abolition of the main rate of self employed National Insurance, and a new Triple Lock Plus that raised the personal allowance for pensioners in line with the State Pension. The party pledged no rise in income tax, no rise in VAT and no rise in corporation tax, with cuts to be funded by £12 billion of welfare savings and reductions in tax avoidance. Stamp duty for first time buyers would be permanently abolished on homes up to £425,000.

The Conservatives pledged to increase NHS spending above inflation every year, deliver the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan with 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors by 2030, and recruit 8,000 more full time equivalent GPs while building or modernising 250 GP surgeries and 50 community diagnostic centres. The manifesto committed £125 million for dentistry covering 700,000 urgent appointments a year, 8,500 additional mental health staff, and Mental Health Support Teams in every school and college by 2030. Minimum service levels would be legislated for during strikes.

The manifesto promised a binding annual cap on work and family visas set on Migration Advisory Committee advice and voted on by Parliament, alongside a regular rhythm of monthly Rwanda removal flights starting in July 2024 and full commencement of the Illegal Migration Act 2023. It pledged to clear the asylum backlog with all claims processed within six months, raise salary thresholds in line with rising wages, and end the graduate visa route abuse. The party committed to remain inside the ECHR but to disregard interim Rule 39 orders that blocked removals.

The Conservatives pledged to introduce mandatory National Service at 18 with a choice between a competitive military placement or one weekend a month of civic volunteering, funded by a £2.5 billion a year budget by 2029/30. They committed to roll out the Advanced British Standard replacing A levels and T Levels with English and maths to 18, create 100,000 more apprenticeships funded by closing university courses with the worst graduate outcomes, and ban mobile phones in schools. The Lifelong Learning Entitlement would launch in 2025.

The manifesto reaffirmed the legally binding 2050 net zero target but pledged a pragmatic and proportionate path that rejected new green levies, road pricing and meat taxes. It committed to legislate for annual North Sea oil and gas licensing rounds, approve two Small Modular Reactor fleets within 100 days, treble offshore wind, and back two carbon capture and storage clusters. Policy costs on household energy bills were to be lower in every year of the next Parliament than in 2023.

The Conservatives pledged to deliver 1.6 million new homes in England over the next Parliament, averaging 320,000 a year, through fast track brownfield planning in the 20 largest cities while maintaining cast iron green belt protections. They committed to a new Help to Buy scheme offering first time buyers an equity loan of up to 20 per cent on a 5 per cent deposit, permanent abolition of stamp duty for first time buyers up to £425,000, and capping ground rents at £250 falling to a peppercorn. Renters Reform legislation would end Section 21 evictions once court reforms were in place.

The manifesto banked £12 billion of annual welfare savings to part fund the National Insurance cuts, principally by tightening the work capability assessment, moving Personal Independence Payment away from cash transfers for some mental health conditions, and reforming the fit note system so that signoff would no longer be done by GPs by default. The party pledged to keep the benefits cap, maintain the two child limit, and require those out of work for more than 12 months to take mandatory work placements or lose entitlement.

The Conservatives pledged to recruit an additional 8,000 neighbourhood police officers, give every community a named officer, and make whole life orders mandatory for more of the worst murders including those involving sadistic or sexual conduct. Sentences for rape and serious sexual offences would require the full custodial term to be served in prison, and tougher sentencing was promised for knife crime, grooming gangs and assaults on retail workers. The party committed to expanding the prison estate by 20,000 places and banning protests outside schools.

The manifesto committed to raise defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030 on a fully funded path, described as the largest sustained increase since the Cold War, and to maintain the UK as the largest defence power in Europe. It pledged continued military, financial and diplomatic support for Ukraine for as long as it takes, full commitment to NATO including the nuclear deterrent and four new Dreadnought submarines, and recognition of a Palestinian state only at the right moment in a peace process. AUKUS and GCAP would be progressed.

The manifesto framed Brexit as settled and ruled out rejoining the EU, the single market or the customs union, while pledging to use regulatory freedoms through smarter regulation reviews and to maintain the Windsor Framework. The party committed to remain inside the European Convention on Human Rights but to legislate to disregard interim Rule 39 orders from the Strasbourg court that blocked Rwanda removals, and to keep the option of leaving the ECHR open if the Convention continued to prevent border control.

The manifesto offered a devolution deal to every part of England that wanted one by 2030 while opposing further transfers of power to the Scottish Parliament, Senedd or Stormont and pledging to legislate against the Welsh 20mph default speed limit through a Backing Drivers Bill. It promised a post Brexit constitutional review to examine the role of the House of Lords, prerogative powers, the courts and the Human Rights Act 1998, but proposed no specific Lords reform and no changes to the voting system or the franchise.