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Big Announcements from the Conservatives

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Wednesday, 8 October, 2025
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Kemi at Conference

Here is a quick summary of the announcements from the Conservative Conference:

- Our "golden rule": for every £1 we find in savings, half will go on reducing the deficit.
- Scrapping Stamp Duty on primary residences.
- Doubling apprenticeships.
- Ending the university debt trap by reducing wasteful taxpayer spending on certain degrees.
- Repeal the Climate Change Act so we can bring energy prices down.
- Saving £23bn from welfare budget with a package of reforms including reducing payments for low level mental health problems and ensuring only British citizens access welfare.
- Cut the civil service back to 2016 levels from 517,000 to 384,000 saving £8bn.
- Cutting the overseas aid budget by £7bn.
- End use of asylum hotels and reducing the costs of asylum, saving £3.5bn.
- Save £4bn by ensuring only British citizens access social housing.
- Save £1.6bn by cutting net zero schemes including elements of Miliband's Great British Energy.
- Abolish business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses.
- Cut electricity bills by £165 by axing the Carbon Tax and old renewable subsidies.
- Make it easier for entrepreneurs to open bank accounts.
- Make it easier for businesses to engage with HMRC.
- Expand business coaching in schools.
- Review IR35 to cut red tape on business.
- First Job Bonus - £5,000 tax cut for young people when they start their first job.
- Rewrite the London Plan to build homes in London.
- Declared a Food and Farming emergency.
- Review all DEFRA quangos like Natural England who hold back growth in rural areas.
- Abolish the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences reflect crimes.
- Reform the process to appoint judges and introduce measures to stop judicial activism.
- Ensure Home Office sets police operational priorities.
- Stop policing free speech.
- Introduce hot spot policing in problem areas.
- 10,000 extra police officers.
- Triple Stop and Search.
- Do whatever it takes to protect our veterans from prosecution.
- Zero tolerance on bad behaviour in schools.
- Ban asylum claims for illegal entrants.
- Out of the ECHR, ECAT and HRA.
- Removals force to deport 150,000 a year.
- Deport all new illegal arrivals within a week and all foreign criminals.
- End the Immigration Tribunal, Judicial Review and legal aid for immigration cases.
- Returns agreements backed by visa sanctions.
- Support our allies abroad to prevent illegal entry to Europe.

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