Transformative and life-changing policy.
"Reliance is inspired to use the positions you entrust us with to campaign for what matters to you.”
True political representation communicates the concerns of their communities in an honest, transparent and openly-accountable manner. It is unburdened and unshackled from party allegiances and their whips.
Reliance is driven by a focus on the issues that matter and how to deliver them by challenging everything from big business to the political establishment. We embrace policies that are genuinely transformative and improve the lives of millions of people, domestically and internationally.
Policy in detail
No more will we stand by while the same empty promises and hollow policies fail us. It’s time to take the matter into our own hands by electing people from our communities who share our values and who will be our voice in Parliament. Independent, unburdened and unshackled by party whips, they will not be silenced from speaking out about what is right. From domestic to international issues, they will always be on the right side of history.
Our policies are the roadmap for how we will transform lives and communities, both domestically and internationally.
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Stop all arms sales and military support to Israel
Recognition of Palestinian State.
Halt all military intervention in foreign territories
Cancel Trident renewal and use to invest in NHS and schools
Comprehensive strategic defence and security review
Work with international partners and the UN on multilateral disarmament to create a nuclear-free world
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Full ban on zero-hours contracts to guarantee workers a specific number of hours each week
Maximum pay ratios of 20:1 to be rolled out in public sector
Raise minimum wage to at least £12 per hour by 2025
Ban unpaid internships
End bogus self-employment and extend rights of employees to all workers - including shared parental pay
Guarantee trade unions a right to access workplaces
End the public sector pay cap
Repeal the Trade Union Act and roll out sectoral collective bargaining, whereby industries can negotiate agreement as a whole
Enforce all workers' rights to trade union representation at work
Abolish employment tribunal fees - so that people have access to justice
Use public spending power to drive up standards, including only awarding public contracts to companies which recognise trade unions
Give all workers equal rights whether part-time or full-time, temporary or permanent
Shift the burden of proof, so the law assumes a worker is an employee unless the employer can prove otherwise
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Increase NHS spending by an average of 4.3% per year
Guarantee access to treatment within 18 weeks
Deliver safe staffing levels and reduce waiting lists
End hospital car parking charges
Scrap the NHS pay cap
Ring-fence mental health budgets and ensure all children in secondary schools have access to a counselling service
Introduce a National Care Service
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Reintroduce maintenance grants for university students and abolish university tuition fees
A National Education Service for England to incorporate all forms of education
Overhaul existing childcare system and extend 30 hours of free childcare to all two year olds
Reduce class sizes to "less than 30" for five, six, and seven-year-olds
Devolve responsibility for skills to city regions or devolved administrations
Free school meals for all primary school children, paid for by removing the VAT exemption on private school fees
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Build more than one million more homes, with at least half for social rent
Offer homeowners interest-free loans to improve their properties
Guarantee help to buy funding until 2030 and give locals buying their first home first refusal on new homes built in their area
Legislate to ban letting agency fees for tenants
Make 4,000 additional homes available for rough sleepers
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30 hours free childcare to be extended to two-year-olds
Scrap child benefit cap
End the so-called "rape clause" that restricts child tax credits to the first two children in a family
A review into reforming council tax and business rates, in favour of options such as a land value tax
A national review of local hospitality businesses to examine the causes for their large-scale demise, as well as establishing a joint taskforce that will consider future sustainability
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End the bedroom tax and the punitive sanctions regime
Guarantee state pension triple lock, as well as the winter fuel allowance and free bus passes
Stop increase to the state pension age
Protect the pensions of UK citizens living abroad
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Bring the railways back into public ownership as franchises expire
Regain control of energy supply networks through the alteration of operator license conditions, and transition to a publicly owned, decentralised energy system
Replace water system with a network of regional publicly-owned water companies
Reverse the privatisation of Royal Mail "at the earliest opportunity"
Create at least one publicly-owned energy company in every region of the UK, with public control of the transmission and distribution grids
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Ensure that 60% of the UK's energy comes from zero-carbon or renewable sources by 2030
Ban fracking
Continue the use of nuclear power in the UK energy supply
Introduce an immediate emergency energy price cap to ensure the average dual fuel household energy bill remains below £1,000 per year
Maintaining access to the EU's internal energy market and retaining access to nuclear research programme Euratom will be a priority in Brexit negotiations
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Reinstate HS2 plans
Build Crossrail 2
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No false promises on immigration numbers and an end to bogus targets.
International students will not be included in immigration numbers
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A fair taxation system which includes a wealth tax and a windfall tax
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A new £400bn “national transformation fund” to invest in infrastructure and low-carbon technology.
Railways, broadband infrastructure, postal services, energy utilities and water to be put in public ownership, paid for by issuing government bonds.
Free full-fibre broadband available for all by 2030
Why I’m supporting Reliance.
"They’re interested in representing the people, not the power. As independents they haven’t lost touch with the grassroots, and listen to those who have been unheard for so long."
- Sonia Laurent
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