Restore Britain's founding positions promise mass deportations, exit from European human rights law, abandonment of net zero and restoration of Christian principles. Three months as a registered party, it has produced a policy book larger than its political vehicle and rhetoric of removal larger than the legal architecture that would permit it. The gap is between what the party says it will end and what it has shown it can build.
On immigration the central commitment is removal of every illegal migrant in the United Kingdom, estimated at 1.8 to 2 million people, through between 150,000 and 200,000 enforced removals per year alongside roughly 500,000 voluntary departures driven by hostile environment. The mass deportations paper runs to 133 pages and is the most developed document the party has produced. The annual rate sits well above any prior UK enforcement total. The party's own paper accepts the United Kingdom would need to leave the ECHR and the Refugee Convention first.
On Europe the party would withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Human Rights Act 1998 simultaneously, and would repeal the Equality Act 2010. The proposed alternative is a Great Clarification Act allowing Parliament to override Strasbourg judgments by majority vote. This is constitutionally larger than the policy it would enable and would require Labour or Conservative cooperation, neither of which has been promised.
On climate the party rejects the 2050 net zero target and proposes a British first energy strategy of domestic oil, gas and nuclear. The rejection is total. No transition support package for workers, communities or capital displaced by the abandonment has been published. The policy ends one regime without specifying what replaces it for the workers who would be displaced.
On welfare the party would condition benefit eligibility on community service such as graffiti removal or litter picking, and restrict PIP and sickness top ups to UK citizens only. The administrative path for delivering this at scale is undefined. Restore Britain has not specified how work requirements would interact with disability assessment, with local labour markets, or with local authority capacity to supervise.
On the NHS the party would refocus the service on British citizens as first priority while continuing to recruit high skilled medical migrants. The eligibility framework would require either constitutional rewriting or formal departure from the existing NHS funding model. The party has not specified which.
On governance the party brands itself a single issue vanguard on immigration and constitutional reform, but the policy book extends well beyond founding rhetoric. The platform now includes BBC defunding, burqa and niqab bans, abolition of kosher and halal slaughter, referendum on death penalty and restoration of Christian principles as constitutional framing. The single issue branding is no longer accurate. The platform is comprehensive cultural conservatism with mass deportation as its leading edge.
The silence is revealing. Restore Britain has published no detailed fiscal package, no education curriculum policy beyond rejection of higher education expansion, no defence spending commitment, and no position on Scottish or Welsh devolution. For a party promising to remake the constitutional settlement of the United Kingdom, the absence of stated positions on devolution is notable.
This is not a single issue vanguard. This is a manifesto for ending things: net zero, the ECHR, BBC public funding, multiculturalism, the welfare safety net, the asylum system, the Equality Act. Restore Britain has not shown how the removals would be staffed, how the legal exit would be negotiated, or how the cultural restoration would be administered. On the record so far, the rhetoric is the policy.