BRITAIN 
TOGETHER 
UKIP 
2017 
MANIFESTO 
BRITAIN 
TOGETHER 
UKIP 
2017 
MANIFESTO 
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Britain Together 


If you believe in Britain, 
if you believe in our values, 
and if you believe in real Brexit, then vote UKIP on 8th June. 


Paul Nuttall MEP 

UKIP Party Leader 

I have always believed that 
UKIP is at its best when it is 
being radical. It is strongest 
when it is being bold and 
leading the political agenda 
rather than following. 

We have done this on 
numerous occasions over 
the years: when we first said 
that Britain could not only 
survive but prosper outside the 
European Union, the political 
class laughed at us. When we 
spoke of the need for a points-
based system for migrants 
we were derided as racists 
and xenophobes by the same 
people. This is now government 
policy for non-EU migrants. 

In many ways, UKIP was a 
decade ahead of its time 
on these issues and in this 
manifesto UKIP is once again 
setting the agenda. 

Be it our stance on balanced 
migration, constitutional reform 
or integration, I predict we are 
leading where the other parties 
will eventually follow. 

On major issues of the day, 
immigration, the economy, our 
health service and law and 
order, the old parties have raised 
the expectations of the public 
during election time, only to let 

them down, time and time again. 
You can guarantee that when 
UKIP says something, we 
mean it. 

This is a unique general 
election: it is about how the 
Brexit negotiations will be 
handled in the years to come 
and this makes UKIP more 
important than ever before. 

We are the country's insurance 
policy, the guard dogs of Brexit. 
We have fought for Brexit all our 
political lives and we want to 
ensure that the people get the 
kind of Brexit they voted for on 
23rd June last year. 

This does not mean we just 
control immigration and reduce 
the numbers of people coming 
to our country. It means we are 
not saddled with a huge divorce 
bill, we reclaim our waters, and 
we become a free independent 
nation once again. 

If the Prime Minister - who 
campaigned to Remain in 
the EU referendum- begins 
to backslide during the Brexit 
negotiations, she must know 
that UKIP will be there. 

If you believe in Britain, if you 
believe in our values, and if you 
believe in real Brexit, then vote 
UKIP on 8th June. 

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Contents 


3 Britain Together: Paul Nuttall, UKIP Leader 35 Britain United Under One Law for All 
5 Introduction to the 2017 UKIP Manifesto 39 Policing, Prison, Punishment 
6 Brexit Britain: The Key Tests 42 Britain's New Role in the World 
10 Sound National Finances, A Lower Cost of Living 44 Defending Our Nation, Supporting Our Veterans 
13 Backing Business and Investing in British Jobs 47 Trade, Not Aid 
15 Creating Coastal Enterprise Zones 50 Transport: Keeping Britain Moving 
16 Solving Britain's Housing Shortage 52 Protecting Our Environment 
18 Defending our National Health Service 54 Food Production and Animal Welfare 
21 Britain's Challenging Mental Health Crisis 56 Our Future Energy Security 
24 A Brighter Future for Our Next Generation 58 Real Democracy 
27 Caring for Young Children; Supporting Families 61 Keeping it Local 

29 Meeting our Responsibilities to 
the Elderly and the Disabled 
32 Fair, Balanced Migration 
62 UKIP's Five Year Fiscal Plan 
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Introduction to Our Manifesto 


At the last general election, 
leaving the European Union 
was UKIP's dream. When 
we produced the UK's 
first ever fully costed and 
independently verified 
manifesto, we outlined a vision 
of how strong and democratic 
Britain could be if we grasped 
the opportunity to become an 
independent, sovereign nation 
once again. Now, Article 50 
has been triggered, and we 
dare to believe our dream will 
become reality within the 
next two years. 

UKIP sets out in this manifesto 
six &bquo;Brexit Tests&equo; which need 
to be passed before we can 
say we are finally free of the 
EU. Whoever forms the next 
government must take note. 

While some parties tear up their 
previous manifestos, UKIP is 
a party that likes to stick to its 
principles. The &pound;35 billion we 
will use to finance our public 
spending priorities has again 
come from reasonable cuts 
to the foreign aid budget, 
scrapping HS2, amending the 
Barnett Formula and the savings 
we will make in two years' 
time by leaving the EU. For the 
second general election in a 
row, UKIP's spending proposals 
do not involve raising any taxes. 

UKIP's policies have been 
developed not to catch the 
public imagination - although 
we think they will - but to deliver 

Suzanne Evans 

Deputy Chair, Policy 

what Britain really needs and 
what we can afford. These are 
our spending priorities for the 
next parliament: 

&bull; 
Invest an extra &pound;11 billion 
every year into the NHS and 
social care by the end of 
the next parliament, raising 
caps on medical school 
and nurse training places, 
and increasing funding for 
mental health and dementia 
&bull; 
Raise the threshold for 
paying income tax to 
&pound;13,500, cut taxes for 
middle earners, abolish the 
TV licence and cut VAT on 
household bills 
&bull; 
Scrap tuition fees for 
science, technology, 
engineering, mathematics, 
and medicine students 
&bull; 
Provide up to 100,000 new 
homes for younger people 
every year 
&bull; 
Maintain all pensioner 
benefits and the pensions 
Triple Lock 
&bull; 
Protect disability and 
carer's benefits 
&bull; 
Spend a genuine two per 
cent of GDP on defence, 
plus &pound;1 billion every year 
&bull; 
Fund 20,000 more police 
officers, 7,000 more prison 
officers, and 4,000 more 
border force staff 
&bull; 
Revive our coastal 
communities and 
fishing villages 
&bull; 
Cut Business Rates for the 
smallest businesses 
&bull; 
Commission a dedicated 
hospital ship to assist our 
armed forces and deliver 
humanitarian medical 
assistance worldwide 
Then there are the policies that 
only UKIP is prepared to commit 
to: reducing net migration to zero, 
putting integration at the top of 
the political agenda, abolishing 
the House of Lords and creating 
an English parliament. 

Our country needs radical 
social, economic, and 
democratic change. Brexit 
heralds a huge potential to 
shake things up, but it will 
take a political party like UKIP 
to stand up to the tyranny of 
the status quo, if we are really 
to pull Britain Together. 

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Brexit Britain: The Key Tests 


UKIP has set out six key Brexit tests and until each one of them has 
been met, we will not have the Brexit the British people voted for on 
23rd June last year. One of the most crucial tests is regaining the 

fishing rights Britain has under international law. The Conservatives 

already look to be backsliding on this. 


More than 17 million of us voted &bquo;Leave,&equo; 
giving the government the largest 
democratic mandate in the history of 
British politics. There should be no question 
of turning back, yet the Tories are leaving the 
door to the EU wide open. UKIP is 
the only party that will genuinely respectthe referendum result. 


Gerard Batten MEP, Brexit Spokesman 

UKIP believes the UK should have already left 
the EU, and that following the Article 50 
process will lead us to make too many 
concessions to Brussels. Theresa May has 
already shown signs of capitulating on key 
issues such as immigration and freeing the UK 
from the jurisdiction of the European Courts. 
What concessions will she make next? 

Theresa May should not be allowing the EU to 
influence how, when, and on what terms we leave. 
Ours is a position of inherent strength, and we 
should be acting from that position of strength, not 
giving up before negotiations have even begun. 

HOW BRITAIN COULD, AND STILL 
SHOULD, LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION 

Repealing the European Communities Act 
(1972) should be the first, not the last step in 
the leaving process. There is no legal or moral 
obligation to use Article 50; we have the legal 
right to withdraw from the EU unilaterally. 

Article 50 is a trap designed to obstruct countries 
from leaving the EU. The longer the leaving 
process lasts, the greater the chance of the 
Referendum decision being overturned. May's 
decision not to implement the decision of the 
Referendum as quickly as possible, but follow a 
slow route that suits the EU, is very worrying. 

By repealing the 1972 Act we could immediately 
take back control of key policy areas such as 
immigration and border controls, fishing, farming, 
trade, security and defence, and police and 
criminal justice. All EU laws could remain in place 
temporarily, until they are repealed individually, 
amended , or allowed to stand. 

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Brexit Britain: The Key Tests 

THE OPEN DOOR TO THE 
2019 EU ELECTIONS 

By now, a Bill for the repeal of 
the European Elections Act 
(2002) should have been placed 
before parliament, to ensure 
no British national can stand 
for election to the European 
Parliament in 2019. This would 
have been a clear sign that there 
is no going back on Brexit, yet 
this has not happened. 

THE EU PLAN TO STOP 
US LEAVING 

Article 50 is not just a two-year 
process, as it makes provision 
for negotiations to extend for 
an indefinite time beyond that. 
We are likely to find ourselves 
facing protracted and tortuous 
negotiations with a recalcitrant, 
bullying EU for quite some time. 
The EU has no incentive to 
negotiate a &bquo;good deal&equo; for the 
UK because it does not want 
us to leave. 

The UK has massive exposure 
to the liabilities of the European 

Central Bank, the European 
Investment Bank, and various 
other &bquo;financial mechanisms&equo; of 
the EU so long as we remain a 
member. We will be expected 
to contribute to any Eurozone 
bailouts. The EU will also have 
to plug a huge financial hole of 
some 12 per cent of the gross 
EU budget when Britain leaves. 
These are just two very good 
reasons for the EU to keep us 
dangling on the hook for as 
long as possible. 

The longer the EU can 
keep Britain in, the greater 
the opportunity for a new 
government to reverse the 
referendum decision, or sign 
up to some kind of associated 
membership agreement which, 
to all intents and purposes, will 
be just like EU membership. 

THERE MUST BE NO 
COMPROMISE ON BREXIT 

Our government and our 
parliament should implement 
the referendum decision 
according to our own 

requirements, and then agree 
the terms of our separation. 

If Theresa May signs a 
withdrawal agreement 
which means we will leave 
in name but not in substance, 
she will have betrayed 
Britain to the EU, just as every 
Prime Minister has done 
since 1972. 

The fact that the political 
class is choosing to dance

 to Brussels' tune proves 
UKIP is the only political 
party in Britain you can 
trust to deliver a true, 
unequivocal Brexit. 

Once we have left the 
EU, we will not allow 
the EU flag to be flown 
from public buildings. 

We will declare 23rd 
June Independence 
Day, and make it a 
bank holiday. 

Our SIX Brexit Tests 

Only when the government has passed all these tests can we be sure 
the British people have got the deal they voted for on June 23rd 2016: 

1 THE LEGAL TEST 

Parliament must resume its supremacy of law-making 
without restriction. Britain must be completely free from 
the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, and we 
must be free, if we wish, to relinquish our membership of 
the European Court of Human Rights. 

2 THE MIGRATION TEST 

Britain must have full control of immigration and asylum 
policies, and border control. We must be not be bound 
by any freedom of movement obligation, and we must be 
free to set and meet our own annual migration targets. 

3 THE MARITIME TEST 

The UK's full maritime sovereignty must be restored and 
we must have control of our maritime exclusive economic 
zone, which stretches 200 miles off the coast or to 
the half-way point between the UK and neighbouring 
countries. There must be no constraints on our fishing 
fleet other than those decided upon by the UK parliament. 

4 THE TRADE TEST 

The UK must retake its seat on the World Trade 
Organisation and resume its sovereign right to sign 
trade agreements with other entities or supra-national 
bodies. We must have full rights to set our own tariff 
and non-tariff barriers consistent with WTO rules, and 
we must have left both the EU single market and the 
customs union. 

5 THE MONEY TEST 

We must not pay any &bquo;divorce&equo; payment to the EU, nor 
contribute to the EU budget. We must have been paid 
our share of financial assets from entities such as the 
European Investment Bank, in which some &pound;9 billion of 
UK money is vested. 

6 THE TIME TEST 

Brexit must be done and dusted before the end of 2019. 

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"Our fishing industry could be 
worth &pound;6.3 billion when we leave 
the EU. Free of the Common 
Fisheries Policy, we can take back 
full control of the seas up to 200 
miles from our coast, as is our 
right under international law. We 
can start to rebuild the once-
flourishing fishing industry that our 
membership of the EU destroyed." 

Mike Hookem MEP, 

Fishing Spokesman 

RESTORING BRITAIN'S 
FISHING INDUSTRY 

Of all the tests for a &bquo;proper&equo; Brexit, taking back 
control of our fisheries is key. The EU's Common 
Fisheries Policy is an environmental, economic 
and social disaster that has devastated fishing 
communities and caused catastrophic damage 
to our maritime ecology. Until we have control 
of our seas and our fish stocks, we do not 
have Brexit. 

The EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) was 
cobbled together in 1970 as Denmark, Ireland, 
Norway and the UK were on course to join the then 
EEC. Together, these countries held 90 per cent of 
Western European fish stocks. 80 per cent of those 
stocks were British. It was a cynical but 
legal way to seize the new entrants' precious 
marine resources. 

The central tenet of the CFP, that there should be 
non-negotiable &bquo;equal access&equo; to EEC/EU waters 
was a condition of EEC/EU membership, Some 
say Prime Minister Edward Heath committed an 
act of treachery when he capitulated to the CFP; 
certainly he allowed the UK's territorial waters to 
be plundered by industrialised fishing fleets, which 
led to huge job and tax revenue losses from fishing 
and ancillary industries. 

The CFP has rightly been described as an 
obscenity because of its reckless fishing quotas 

and the discard policy. This requires fishermen 
either to throw back into the seas dead fish caught 
over quota, or to bring them back to port and send 
them to landfill. Data on discards from Eurostat 
show discards equate to some two billion fish 
suppers thrown back into the sea every year. It is 
environmental and economic madness. 

Once we leave the EU, we can also leave the 
CFP, take back control of our seas, and rebuild 
our fishing industry. 

THE 1964 LONDON CONVENTION 
ON FISHING 

UKIP will repeal this little-known convention, an 
agreement between twelve European nations and 
the UK, which recognises the historic fishing rights 
of vessels from the contracting parties to fish in the 
band of waters between six and twelve nautical 
miles from the UK coast. 

When the EU's Common Fisheries Policy ceases to 
apply, the UK will automatically establish control 
of a 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone giving our 
fishermen sole access to the seas within 200 miles 
of the UK coastline, or at the mid-point between two 
countries' coastlines. However, the existence of the 
pre-EU 1964 Convention could offer a back door 
to continued EU fishing in British waters, as vessels 
belonging to signatory nations could cite this 
legislation and claim &bquo;historic rights&equo; to fishing within 
the 6 to 12 nautical mile band around the UK. 

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The next government's 
willingness - or otherwise to 
revoke the 1964 London 
Convention on Fishing 
could be indicative of their 
intentions for the fishing 
industry in the post-Brexit era. 
Article 15 of the Convention 
calls for a two-year notice 
period, so time is of the 
essence, yet to date no action 
has been taken. 

SECURING THE FUTURE 
OF OUR FISHERIES 

Re-building our fishing industry 
and repatriating one of our nation's 
greatest renewable resources will 
take time but it could be worth 
as much as &pound;6.3 billion to the UK 
economy in net-to-plate income 
alone. This is a golden opportunity 
for Britain: our fisheries must not 
be used as a bargaining chip in EU 
exit negotiations 

To take back full control of our 
fisheries, UKIP will: 

&bull; 
Leave the CFP and withdraw 
from the 1964 London 
convention 
&bull; 
Restore the UK Exclusive 
Economic Zone in 
accordance with 
international law 
&bull; 
End the obscenity of 
discards and make best use 
of all fish caught 
&bull; 
Introduce a time-limited, 
paid licence fee option for 
selected foreign vessels to 
fish within the UK's territorial 
waters, while the UK fishing 
industry re-establishes itself 
&bull; 
Launch an inclusive, 
collaborative consultation 
with the fishing community 
to draft a new Fisheries Bill 
&bull; 
Ensure all fish caught within 
UK waters, including those 
taken by foreign vessels 
operating under licence, 
are landed and sold in the 
UK, to help finance and 
attract investment in the 
newly developing UK 
fishing industry 
&bull; 
Create, train and equip a 
new Fisheries Protection 
Brexit Britain: The Key Tests 

Force, using a mixture of 

technologies in sea-and 

land-based methods, to 

police the UK's Exclusive 

Economic Zone. 

In addition to the economic, 
environmental, and social gains 
we will make in restoring our 
fishing industry, Brexit also 
offers a unique opportunity 
to regenerate British boat and 
shipbuilding. We could develop 
our civil ship and boat building 
programme in line with the 
World Trade Organisation's 
Trade Related Technical 
Assistance programme. 

Brexit Britain offers a host of 
opportunities, and nowhere 
more so than in our fishing 
industry. Reviving our proud 
and profitable maritime 
tradition will rejuvenate our 
seaside towns, enhance our 
coastline, produce much-
needed skilled employment 
in economically depressed 
areas, and secure the future 
for British fishermen. 


The British Passport 

In 1988, the blue British 
passport was scrapped 
and replaced by a smaller 
burgundy EU one, a clear 
step towards the creation 
of a United States of 
Europe. The British people 
roundly rejected this plan 
on 23rd June 2016. 

UKIP will take the 
opportunity to re-instate 
the classic blue passport 
when the British passport 
contract comes up for 
renewal in 2019. 

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Sound National Finances, 
a Lower Cost of Living 


UKIP will invest in the NHS and care for the elderly. We will fund our 
schools, build more houses, and rebuild our depleted armed forces. 
We will do this without adding a single penny to anyone's tax bill. 
Our cost-of-living package will also save households &pound;400 a year. 


UKIP will make full use of the new 
economic freedoms we will gain when 
we leave the EU. The new policies we will 
introduce in Brexit Britain will be designed 
to help cut the cost of living for working 
people, provide adequate funding for 
public services, and revive communities 
hardest hit by our EU membership. 

Patrick O'Flynn MEP, 

Economics Spokesman 

Brexit means we can take back control of 
those important areas of economic policy we 
have been forced to surrender to the EU for 
the last forty-five years. We will resume full 
responsibility for taxation and have more room 
for manoeuvre when it comes to industrial and 
regional policy, without having to worry about 
EU &bquo;state aid&equo; rules. 

UKIP has always made the case for lower taxes and 
an end to wasteful public spending programmes. 
We will scrap white elephant vanity projects such 
as HS2, replace the out-dated Barnett Formula 
with a fair funding formula based on need, reduce 
foreign aid to 0.2 per cent of Gross National 
Income, and end our financial contributions to the 
EU budget. 

These savings will provide us with &pound;35 billion to 
fund our public service priorities. By keeping 
taxation low and incentives for wealth creation 
high, we will unleash the hardworking, 
entrepreneurial instincts of the British people. 

CUTTING THE COST OF LIVING 

UKIP will remove VAT from domestic energy 
bills and scrap the green levies currently added 
to our bills to subsidise renewable energy 
schemes. Together, these measures will cut 
typical household energy bills by &pound;170 a year. 

Our plans to abolish the TV licence will 
eventually save households another &pound;147. 

UKIP will phase out the licence fee over three 
years, giving the BBC time to adopt a new funding 
model based on subscription and/or advertising. 
We will expect the BBC to retain a core free-to-air 
offering on Freeview, maintain the World Service, 

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Sound National Finances, a Lower Cost of Living 


and its local radio network. 
Grants from a new public service 
broadcast fund, financed from 
within current government 
resources, will be available to 
any broadcaster for specific 
programmes or projects. 

We will remove VAT from hot 
takeaway food such as fish 
and chips, and from women's 
sanitary products. 

FAIRER, LOWER TAXES 

Our economic approach 
revolves around restoring 
incentives for workers by cutting 
taxes and ending the open door 
immigration that keeps wages 
low. Reducing the tax burden on 
working people in the bottom 
and middle ranges of the 
income scale is our priority. 

By the end of the next 
parliament UKIP will raise 
the personal allowance to 
at least &pound;13,500 so people 
can earn enough money to 
cover their basic living costs 
before the state takes any 
of their income. We will also 

raise the 40 percent income 
tax threshold to &pound;55,000. A 
tax originally designed for 
high earners should not be 
levied on middle-income 
professionals such as teachers 
and senior nurses. When 
economic conditions allow, 
we will restore the personal 
allowance to those earning over 
&pound;100,000. 

UKIP will raise the inheritance 
tax threshold to &pound;500,000 
per individual, transferable 
for a married couple or those 
in civil partnerships, so up to 
&pound;1000,000 in total. Eventually 
we want to eliminate 
inheritance tax altogether. 
We will also scrap Tory plans 

for new and punitive probate 
charges. 

FLEXIBLE PENSIONS 
FOR WOMEN 

The rise in the retirement age to 
66 by 2020 and to 67 by 2028 
has been hugely unpopular, 
especially for women, who 
until 2010 could retire at 60. 
UKIP's policy is to introduce a 
flexible state pension window, 
so everyone can opt to retire 
earlier, for a slightly lower state 
pension, or work longer for a 
slightly higher pension, as is the 
case at the moment. 

We will allow women to 
retire on this basis at 60, 
if they so wish. 

Time and again you will see the Conservative Party 
giving favourable treatment to the rich and powerful 
and dumping on the up-and-comers. It is not an 
attractive trait. UKIP's economic agenda is to speak up 
not just for the left behind but for the left out, those 
who work hard and play by the rules but have no 
special connections or market power. 

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Sound National Finances, a Lower Cost of Living 

CRACKING DOWN ON 
CORPORATE TAX DODGING 

The public has every right to be angry when multinational 
corporations fail to make their proper 
contribution to Britain's running costs. PAYE is 
not voluntary, and corporation tax should not be 
voluntary either. 

We will not let large companies get away with 
paying zero or negligible corporation tax. When 
we leave the EU, we will close the loophole 
allowing businesses to pay tax in whichever 
EU or associated country they choose, and 
bring in any further measures necessary to 
prevent large multinational corporations using 
aggressive tax avoidance schemes. 

UKIP is not in the pockets of big businesses and 
we will make them pay their way. 

BREXIT: THE BOOST TO THE ECONOMY 

If Britain leaves the EU without a free trade 
agreement and we trade with the EU on World 
Trade Organisation terms, the Treasury will receive 
a tax windfall of some &pound;11 billion from import 
tariffs annually. This bonus could be used to fund 
an across the board cut in VAT to compensate 

consumers for slightly higher prices, or other 
spending priorities. In this event, UKIP will also: 

&bull; 
Encourage a Buy British campaign: if the 
EU were seen to be punishing Britain, we 
believe the home market would support home 
produced goods 
&bull; 
Cut unnecessary EU regulation from the 88 
per cent of the UK economy that is not linked 
to trade with EU countries Prioritise free trade 
agreements with non-EU countries. 
RETURNING TO SOUND FINANCES 

The annual public sector deficit may be reducing 
slowly, but our national debt has been doubled by 
the Conservatives, since they took office in 2010, 
to a record high. There can be no more backsliding 
on returning to sound public finances. We will 
support deficit reduction schedules put forward 
by the next government and vigorously oppose 
unnecessary spending plans. 

Only by backing enterprise, rewarding success 
and tackling waste in the public sector can we 
hope to improve the economic legacy we pass 
on to future generations. 

"Starbucks recently reported 
profits of &pound;13.4m on a UK turnover 
of &pound;380m. Its corporation tax 
contribution fell to &pound;2.7m, down 
from &pound;7m the year before. How can 
a vast business that sells coffee 
in paper cups all over the country 
for &pound;2.50 a pop end up paying 
a corporation tax contribution 
amounting to much less than one 
per cent of turnover? Would the 
taxman be happy to accept, 
pro-rata, such a contribution from 
an independent coffee shop? I think 
we know the answer to that." 


Patrick O'Flynn MEP 

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Backing Business and Investing in British Jobs 


Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party wants to squeeze as much tax as possible 
out of British businesses and British workers to pay for their outlandish ideas. 

Theresa May's Conservatives are plotting hikes in dividend tax and Class IV 
National Insurance contributions, and want to make small businesses file tax 


returns four times a year. UKIP is the only party in this election prepared to 
back British businesses and British workers and help both to thrive. 


There needs to be a bonfire of excessive 

EU regulation when we leave the EU 
so smaller businesses can compete 
successfully on the global stage. 
UKIP is the only party that has any 
real appetite for this. 

Christopher Mills, 

Business Spokesman 

UKIP is strongly pro-business. Helping 
businesses start, succeed, and compete in 
the global marketplace is a priority for 
us. Having long fought against excessive 
regulations enforced by Brussels, we make the 
case for clear-cut, sensible regulation to make 
trading easier, balancing this with policies to 
encourage ethical and responsible growth. 

BACKING SMALL BUSINESSES 

Britain's 5.5 million small businesses are the 
lifeblood of our economy, making up 60 per cent 
of the jobs in the private sector, according to the 
Federation of Small Businesses. UKIP will support 
small businesses by: 

&bull; 
Cutting business rates by 20 per cent for 
the 1.5 million British businesses operating 
from premises with a rateable value of less 
than &pound;50,000 
&bull; 
Making HM Revenue and Customs investigate 
big businesses or public sector bodies that 
repeatedly make late payments to smaller 
customers. Fines proportionate to the amount 
of delayed payments will be levied, and will 
escalate for repeat offenders 
&bull; 
Improve access to trade credit insurance 
to remove the drag on growth for 
businesses struggling to secure loans, and 
give small traders the confidence to expand 
their businesses 

&bull; 
Encourage local trade by pushing every local 
authority in the country to offer at least 30 
minutes' free parking in town centres and 
shopping parades. 
We will also freeze Insurance Premium Tax. 
Previous governments have raised this tax as an 
easy way to make extra revenue, yet it cannot 
be claimed back by businesses so increases 
have been especially tough on smaller traders. 

ACCESSING GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS 

Local, regional and national governments have 
immense spending power totalling around 

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Backing Business and Investing in British Jobs 

Big businesses will have to start 
training the British workforce, investing 
in succession planning, and paying a 
decent living wage to all their employees.

Andrew Charalambous, 

Work and Pensions Spokesman 


&pound;230 billion. While in the EU, they are required 
to offer contracts right across Europe, which has 
made it harder for British businesses to compete, 
and forced them to jump through expensive 
bureaucratic hoops. 

Brexit offers the perfect opportunity to open up 
government order books to smaller businesses, 
and encourage local, regional and national 
procurement strategies that will deliver better 
value for taxpayers. 

UKIP will launch an urgent independent review 
of public sector procurement, with the aim of 
opening public sector contracts up to small and 
medium-sized businesses employing less than 
250 people. Recommendations coming out 
of this review will be put in place immediately 
after we leave the EU. 

Meanwhile, we will compel all public sector 
bodies to list contracts worth over &pound;10,000 on the 
government's &bquo;Contracts Finder&equo; website, to help 
more small firms access public 
procurement opportunities. 

BACKING BRITAIN'S 

SELF-EMPLOYED STRIVERS 

It takes courage and determination to set up your 
own business. Many self-employed people work 
for less than the national living wage, especially 
when they start out. UKIP will stand up for Britain's 

4.8 million self-employed people. There will be no 
quarterly tax returns, and no increase in Class IV 
National Insurance or taxes for our self-employed 
strivers. UKIP's goal is to keep taxes and red-tape 
to the minimum necessary. 
BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS 

UKIP is not ashamed to say it: we should be offering jobs 
first to our own unemployed, rather than inviting cheap 
labour from overseas to do the jobs British people 
are perfectly able to do. Big businesses are the worst 
offenders here and we will prevent their deliberately 
overlooking the 11 per cent of young people in the UK 
who are currently out of work. 

UKIP will bring forward legislation requiring 
employers to advertise jobs to British citizens before 
they offer them overseas. It is the government's 
duty to get our own unemployed off benefits and 
into the workplace, and improve prospects for our 
own people, rather than facilitate the continued 
importation of foreign workers. 

We will also ensure employers are legally free to 
choose to hire a young unemployed British person 
under the age of 25 ahead of a better qualified or more 
experienced foreign applicant. Employers who wish 
to back British workers and give local young people a 
chance on the first rung of the career ladder should not 
face the threat of legal action, as they presently do. 

UKIP will make Gordon Brown's British Jobs for 
British workers plausible, and meaningful in law. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 

MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Protect workers' rights once we 
have left the EU: leaving the EU must 
not usher in any kind of &bquo;race to the 
bottom&equo; on employment rights. 
&bull; 
Enforce the minimum and living 
wage and reverse government cuts 
to the number of minimum wage 
inspectors in England and Wales 
&bull; 
Significantly tighten up rules on 
zero hours contracts and severely 
limit their use. 
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Creating Coastal Enterprise Zones 


UKIP will make it a top priority to reverse the decline of our seaside towns. 
We will be the party that cares about coastal communities and does not 


write them off as being "at the end of the line". 


UKIP will make the British seaside great 
again: vibrant, viable communities 
attractive to businesses, to British 
families, and tourists from overseas. 

Victoria Ayling, 

Heritage and Tourism Spokeswoman 

Our fishing industry has been all but destroyed 
by the Common Fisheries Policy, and many 
coastal towns have been pushed into decline 
with the rise of cheap package holidays abroad, 
and transport and infrastructure projects that 
have been skewed towards big cities. 

The great British seaside is well overdue a 
revival, and UKIP will create a new Coastal 
Towns Taskforce to oversee a raft of measures to 
regenerate those areas of the country that have 
suffered most as a result of our EU membership. 

NURTURING SEASIDE BUSINESSES 

Within our coastal enterprise zones, businesses operating 
from premises with a rateable value of less than &pound;50,000 
will receive a 50 per cent cut in business rates. Coastal 
towns will have top ranking when it comes to national 
successor funds to the European Regional Development 
Fund. Our new coastal towns taskforce will raise funding 
for new arts and heritage facilities in coastal towns. 

In this election, UKIP is the first party 

ever to put forward a comprehensive 
package of measures targeted at helping 
coastal communities. UKIP will provide the 
essential leadership needed to reverse the 
decline of the great British seaside town. 

Patrick O'Flynn MEP 

Economics Spokesman 

HIGHER STANDARDS OF HOUSING 

Rundown housing has become an unfortunate 
hallmark of many coastal towns in decline. In 
coastal enterprise zones, local authorities will be 
given the power to: 

&bull; 
Access low interest government loans to 
buy up and renovate poor housing stock or 
empty commercial properties, to create quality 
residential accommodation 
&bull; 
Issue compulsory purchase orders for poor 
quality houses in multiple occupation 
&bull; 
Introduce minimum standards for properties in 
receipt of housing benefit 
&bull; 
Refuse housing benefit payments to landlords 
in breach of planning legislation. 
These policies, together with the resumption of 
Britain's 200-mile maritime exclusive economic zone 
- one of our key Brexit tests - will boost coastal towns 
and give our fishing industry the chance to rebuild. 

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Solving Britain's Housing Shortage 


The UK is suffering a housing shortage that has been 20 years in the 
making. The waiting list for public and affordable housing stands at 1.2 
million alone. UKIP will provide high quality, affordable homes, with security 

of tenure, where they are needed, while boosting jobs. 


UKIP's housing policy provides a 
solution to the housing crisis, which 
requires no direct funding from 
government, and is not constrained 
by the current skill-shortage in the 
construction industry. It is a radical 
and visionary plan. Finally, our young 
people will be able to afford 
their own homes. 

Ray Finch MEP, 

Housing Spokesman 

Successive governments have failed to meet 
the housing needs of an increasing population. 
Of the 140,000 homes due to be built this year, 
80,000 will be absorbed by population growth, 
exacerbated by immigration, so at best only 
60,000 will begin to address the current 
chronic shortage. 

Labour, the Conservatives, and other parties in 
this election will promise to build hundreds of 
thousands of new homes, but their plans are 
not credible. There are not enough workers in 
the traditional construction industry to meet 
their targets. Planning permission remains slow 
and difficult to obtain and developers have no 
incentive to build more, because under-supply 
boosts their margins and land bank values. 

UKIP is the only party being realistic about what 
can be done to increase the housing supply 
and putting forward a viable solution: a bold 
policy to roll out high quality, low cost factory-
built modular (FBM) homes, affordable on the 
national average wage of &pound;26,000. 

LOCALLY MANUFACTURED 

FACTORY-BUILT MODULAR HOMES 

Factory-built homes should not be confused with 
the pre-fabs of the past. They are built to last, to 
high design standards, and are energy efficient, 
with running costs up to 30per cent less than 
traditional homes. While conventional construction 
cannot in the medium term meet the need for low 
cost housing, factory-built modular homes can. 

When we leave the EU, we will regain control 
of the regional development budget, over 
&pound;1 billion a year. UKIP will use some of this to 
boost capacity in UK-based modular homes 
manufacturing. We will enable the manufacture 
of modular homes where jobs are needed, and 
they will be built where homes are needed. 

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Solving Britain's Housing Shortage 

HOW UKIP'S MODULAR 
HOMES BUILDING SCHEME 
WILL WORK 

UKIP will establish a Housing 
Development Corporation 
(HDC) to acquire primarily 
brownfield sites - at existing use 
value and through compulsory 
purchase if necessary - where 
affordable housing is required. 
Planning law will be changed 
to enable the HDC to give 
themselves planning permission 
to build between 10 and 100 
FBM homes on an average site. 

Homes constructed will be 
sold on a freehold basis to first 
time buyers up to the age of 
40 who are British citizens and 
who have a 10 per cent deposit. 
We anticipate the total cost 
for a two-bedroom house will 
be under &pound;100,000, including 
land purchase and restoration, 
construction, infrastructure and 
a contribution to the costs of the 
HDC. Utilities installation would 
be covered by a 1per cent 
energy bill levy, and Stamp Duty 
would not be applied. 

UKIP's proposal will bring 
up to 100,000 extra truly 
affordable homes onto the 
market every year. Combined 
with a traditional home 
building programme, we 
could build another one 
million homes by 2022. In 
addition, the FBM model 
would also make it feasible to 
deliver substantial numbers 
of new Council houses that 
have been promised, while 
traditional methods do not. 

RESTRICTIONS ON USE 
AND RESALE 

As this scheme is a steppingstone 
from the rental sector to 
traditional home ownership, to 
address the current housing 
crisis, it must not distort the 
existing property market. 
So, homes will be for owner 
occupation, not private rental. 
Owners will not be able to sell 

them on the open market, but 
must sell them back to the HDC 
at a guaranteed price of cost 
plus inflation over the period 
of ownership. Ownership 
can, however, be retained 
indefinitely. 

THE HOUSING CRISIS 
SOLVED 

UKIP's modular home 
scheme provides: 

&bull; 
High quality homes with 
security of tenure, where 
they are needed 
&bull; 
A way for the next 
generation to build up 
equity and move into the 
traditional home owner 
market 
&bull; 
A realistic way of building 
homes that is not 
constrained by the current 
skills shortage in the 
construction industry 
Words and gimmicks from 
the old political parties will 
not solve the housing crisis. 
UKIP's bold plan will. 

GOING OVER AND ABOVE 

In addition to our FBM homes 
programme, UKIP will identify 
long-term dormant land held by 
central and local government so 
it can be released for affordable 
developments. We will also 

plough all revenue raised 
from Right to Buy sales into 
community housing and change 
the law to allow mortgages to 
become inheritable, as they are 
in other countries. 

A REVIEW OF HOUSING 
ASSOCIATIONS 

Housing associations are 
accountable neither to 
taxpayers, who provide much 
of their funding, nor to their 
own tenants. 

A UKIP investigation into the 
largest 50 housing associations 
uncovered a catalogue of 
failures. They are not building 
as many homes as private 
developers, the homes they 
do build cost more to put up, 
and they are failing to tackle 
anti-social behaviour. Average 
salaries for chief executives 
reach 51 times their tenants' 
rent: one CEO is paid three times 
as much as the Prime Minister. 

Housing associations 
manage 60 per cent of the 
socially rented sector and 
have received &pound;23 billion of 
Government funding in the 
past 14 years, but UKIP is not 
convinced they are benefiting 
either tenants or the taxpayer. 
We will launch a review into 
their operation. 


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Defending our National Health Service 


THE NHS is Britain's best-loved public service and one of the benchmarks 

of our civilised values. UKIP will keep the NHS free at the point of delivery 

and increase funding by diverting the &pound;11 billion we will save by cutting the 

foreign aid budget directly into health and social care. 

Successive Labour, Coalition and Tory 
governments have overloaded the NHS with 
red tape and allowed it to be abused as an 
international, rather than a NATIONAL health 
service. The NHS is funded by the British 
people and should be for the British people. 

A catalogue of failures has left the NHS in crisis. 
NHS Trusts are in deficit to the tune of &pound;2.5 billion, 
hospital waiting lists for routine treatment have 
reached record highs, and tens of thousands of 
elective operations have been cancelled for nonclinical 
reasons. In January this year 23 hospitals 
could not guarantee patient care or safety. 

The Royal College of Nursing says we need 24,000 
more nurses, and NHS Digital estimates there is 
roughly one GP vacancy for every two practices. 

1,500 doctors leave Britain every year for better 
pay and more relaxed working conditions in 
Australia or New Zealand. 

The NHS desperately needs additional funds. 
UKIP will provide NHS England with an additional 
&pound;9 billion a year by 2021/22. An additional &pound;2 
billion for social care will fully utilise the savings 
we will make from the foreign aid budget. 

MORE MEDICAL STUDENTS, DOCTORS, 
GPS, NURSES, AND MIDWIVES 

Despite our national doctor shortage, nearly 800 
straight &bquo;A&equo; students are turned away from medical 
school every year. 

UKIP will lift the cap on medical school training 
places from 7,500 to 10,000 and make sure no 

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Defending our National Health Service 

suitable &bquo;A&equo; grade student fails 
to get a place. Provided medical 
students commit to working 
within the NHS for at least ten 
out of the fifteen years after they 
qualify, we will cover the cost of 
all their tuition fees. 

TACKLING THE 
GP SHORTAGE 

Raising the cap on medical 
school places will help deliver 
the 10,000 additional GPs the 
profession needs by 2025. We 
will also introduce new funding 
arrangements incentivising 
doctors to work in geographical 
areas most in need. However, 
GPs are also grappling with heavy 
workloads and over-regulation. 

We will end appraisal and 
revalidation work that goes 
beyond that deemed necessary 
by the GMC, and reduce the 
burden of data collection and 
target chasing. 

UKIP will also fund the cost of 
streamlined &bquo;return to practice&equo; 
training, and encourage retired 
GPs or GPs with small children 
to work part-time or in job-share 
schemes. For doctors who have 
worked overseas, we 

will make re-registering with 
the UK General Medical Council 
much easier by recognising 
comparable qualifications, 
experience, and accreditation. 

Introducing a wider range 
of healthcare professionals 
and clinical services into GP 
surgeries will also make general 
practice less stressful. 

We will fund additional 
support staff such as physician 
associates, clinical pharmacists 
and health visitors in GP 
surgeries, and allow practices

 to operate a wider range of 
clinics, including minor surgery, 
where feasible. 

GIVING NURSES 
THE RESPECT AND 
RECOGNITION THEY 
DESERVE 

The NHS needs 24,000 
more nurses and 3,500 more 
midwives, yet again potential 
students are being turned away, 
tens of thousands of them 
every year. 

UKIP will increase the number 
of nurse training placements, 
reinstate funding for bursaries 
to cover nursing, midwifery 

and allied health professions' 
tuition and accommodation 
costs, and cover the cost of 
re-training for nurses who have 
taken career breaks. 

We will discontinue the one 
per cent pay increase cap 
for frontline NHS workers 
earning less than &pound;35,000 
(Band 6). 

RELIEVING PRESSURE 
ON A&E DEPARTMENTS 

UKIP will train more 
emergency medicine 
consultants and improve 
their working conditions. 
Emergency medicine 
consultants cannot 
be expected to work 
unreasonably extended 
shifts, repeated unsocial 
hours, excessive numbers of 
weekends, or be regularly 
forced to cancel leave. 

Every part of the health sector 
has a role to play in reducing 
A&E traffic. By improving access 
to and facilities in GP surgeries, 
keeping minor injuries units 
open, and sustaining funding 
levels for local chemists, we can 
start to address the A&E crisis. 

"Labour and the Tories have 
failed the NHS with nine arduous 
top-down reorganisations since 
1973 and a relentless cuts and 

privatisation agenda. UKIP will 

fund the NHS to the tune of 
an additional &pound;11 billion a year 
by 2021/22, address the most 
pressing challenges within our 
healthcare system, and fully 
integrate the NHS and 
social care." 


Suzanne Evans, 

UKIP NHS Champion 

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Defending our National Health Service 

REMOVING BARRIERS BETWEEN THE NHS 
AND SOCIAL CARE 

35,000 bed days are lost every month because 
of delayed transfers of care, and legal barriers 
can make it difficult to pass information between 
the two systems. The problems caused by our 
disconnected health and social care system will 
not be resolved unless the two are fully integrated. 

UKIP will establish a Department for Health and 
Care, and create a sustainably funded social 
care system assimilated into the NHS. 

A NATIONAL, NOT AN INTERNATIONAL 
HEALTH SERVICE 

Treating those ineligible for care costs British 
taxpayers around &pound;2 billion every year. UKIP 
will launch the toughest ever crackdown on 
ineligible foreign nationals using our NHS. 

Only British citizens or foreign nationals who have 
paid UK taxes for at least five consecutive years 
will be eligible for non-urgent NHS care. Anyone 
else must provide evidence of comprehensive 
medical insurance before being allowed to enter 
Britain and maintain that insurance for the duration 
of their stay. Urgent care will continue to be 
provided to all in need. 

We will close any loopholes in reciprocal healthcare 
arrangements, making sure reciprocity is like-forlike, 
and pursue any moneys owed to us. We will 
also tighten the application and approval process 
for EHIC cards and review the scheme as part of our 
Brexit negotiations with the EU. 

ACCOUNTABLE MANAGEMENT 

To improve standards within the NHS, we will 
create the equivalent of a General Medical Council 
for NHS managers, making them subject to 
disciplinary control for the first time. 

Managers will require a statutory Licence 
to Manage. Removal of this licence would 
immediately bar them from working as a manager 
anywhere within the NHS. The wellbeing of staff is 
too important to allow incompetent, negligent or 
bullying managers to remain within the NHS. 

Managers and board members will be held 
individually accountable for poor decisions. 
Individual votes should be noted on significant 
or contentious matters. 

We will limit the amount that can be spent on an 
external management consultancy contract to 
&pound;50,000. The annual &pound;589 million cost is far 
too high. 

BANNING LABOUR'S DODGY NHS DEALS 

Between 1997 and 2010, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown 
contracted private syndicates of hedge fund managers, 
bankers, and big property developers to design, build, and 
finance new hospitals and run non-clinical services. These 
syndicates charged interest rates so high, you might as well 
have called the scheme: &bquo;buy one hospital, pay for seven.&equo; 

These Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals financed 
&pound;11.8 billion worth of new build but will ultimately 
cost the NHS &pound;79 billion. 75 per cent of the syndicates 
involved are based offshore, so they do not even pay UK 
taxes on these enormous profits. 

Labour is not the party of the NHS: Labour is the 
party that allowed the wealthiest in our society to 
laugh all the way to the bank at the expense of the 
NHS. UKIP will end the use of PFI contracts within 
the NHS. 

GUARANTEED RIGHTS FOR EU 
HEALTHCARE WORKERS 

Some 167,000 EU nationals work in the health and social 
care. UKIP has no hesitation in guaranteeing their right to 
remain here, whatever the EU decides with regard to the 
rights of British citizens overseas. 

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE 

The five-year political cycle encourages short-termism 
that is unhelpful to the NHS. For it to be fit for purpose for 
another fifty years, we need honest, open debate, and 
viable solutions to the NHS funding crisis that are free 
from political interference. 

UKIP will establish a Royal Commission to find a way 
forward that allows the NHS to hold fast to its values 
while meeting the challenges of the future. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 

MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Scrap hospital car parking charges 
in England. 
&bull; 
Abolish the Care Quality Commission, 
which has caused a vicious circle of 
misery. We aim to foster a culture of 
openness, honesty and challenge, not 
one of blame, shame and sanction. Our 
new inspection regime will include 
greater public accountability, extra 
protection for whistle-blowers, and 
increased scrutiny. 
&bull; 
Scrap EU Legislation that has hindered 
the NHS such as the Clinical Trial 
Directive and the Working Time Directive. 
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Britain's Challenging Mental Health Crisis 


The 2012 Health and Social Care Act gave mental health the same 

priority as physical health, but only in principle. UKIP will put mental 
wellbeing on the same footing as physical healthcare, in terms of 
both access to treatment and funding. 

Anyone who has suffered themselves, 
or seen a loved one deteriorate 
before their eyes because of a mental 
health problem, will understand just 
how important it is to invest in quality 
psychological services, and get this 
issue higher up the political agenda.. 

Suzanne Evans NHS Champion 

Unresolved mental health and addiction 
issues lie at the heart of some of our greatest 
social challenges: crime, homelessness, family 
breakdown, unemployment, and more. 

Every year, some 150 million GP consultations and 
up to forty per cent of A&E attendances are linked 
to mental health issues and drug or alcohol abuse, 
yet there are insufficient resources for doctors to 
refer patients to specialist care. 

UKIP will increase planned spending on 
mental health services by at least &pound;500 million 
every year. This sum could fund 6,000 clinical 
psychologists to see 500,000 more adults and 
young people every year. 

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UKIP's mental health priorities will be: 

&bull; 
Cutting waiting times: The current target 
of eighteen weeks between referral and first 
appointment is far too long. 28 days should be 
the maximum. 
&bull; 
Closing the gaps between child and adult, 
and physical and mental care services: There 
should be a smooth transition between these 
sectors with professionals sharing best practice 
and having a central point of communication 
&bull; 
Getting funding to the right place: National 
funding earmarked for mental health services 
is often being diverted to other NHS services. 
This must stop. 
YOUNG PEOPLE CRYING OUT FOR HELP 

The British Association for Counselling and 
Psychotherapy says 80,000 children and young 
people in the UK are clinically depressed. Around 
three children in every class have a diagnosable 
mental health condition, and one in twelve will 
self-harm. Figures from the Office for National 
Statistics are tragic: more than four suicides 
of young people take place every week. 

Mental health problems start before age 
fourteen in half of all cases, so UKIP will 
integrate mental health training into the 
teacher-training syllabus and develop a 
national school-based counselling strategy 
for England, on a par with Wales and Northern 
Ireland. Specialist counselling services will be 
available in all secondary schools. 

Looking out for those at risk must become 
everyone's responsibility. If a child or teacher saw 
someone in pain, they would help. Mental health 
problems also have clear symptoms. UKIP's policies 
mean professionals will always be on hand to assist. 

EDUCATION AND WELLBEING 

Education should focus on personal wellbeing, 
practical coping skills, and developing positive 
social relationships, as well as academic 
performance. In stressing the latter, we have piled 
stress on our children. 

Our education system needs to be more balanced, 
so UKIP will introduce emotional health and 
wellbeing into the Ofsted inspection framework. 

LETTING CHILDREN KNOW 
THEY ARE NOT ALONE 

Those who have recovered from their problems 
are often best placed to help others facing similar 

Drugs wreck lives. We are failing in our 
duty to protect our children if we do 
not warn them about the dangers and 
do everything in our power to prevent 
them having access to illegal drugs. 

Paul Nuttall, UKIP Leader 

challenges. UKIP will encourage schools to invite 
specialist support organisations into school. 
Letting our children know what resources are 
available to them may be life-changing. 

CHALLENGING MEDIA STEREOTYPES 

Elsewhere in this manifesto we condemn alien 
practices that oppress women, but we are not blind 
to our own failings. The &bquo;lad culture,&equo; which treats 
young women as sex objects and the &bquo;red circle of 
shame&equo; in celebrity magazines that hold women to 
unattainable levels of physical perfection are just 
two examples. Boys too are increasingly developing 
eating disorders and body image issues. 

UKIP will review advertising, broadcast and 
editorial codes, seeking commitments that 
editorial coverage and advertising campaigns 
will treat men and women with dignity and 
promote healthy body images. 

CYBER BULLYING 

We will extend the remit of the current cross-
government Internet Safety Strategy and 
invite participants to consider whether new 
legislation is required to address the problem of 
online abuse. 

PREVENTING DRUG USE AMONG 
YOUNG PEOPLE 

UKIP will not legalise classified drugs. The 
social consequences could be catastrophic. We 
will rigorously enforce current legislation. 

Identifying drug users means they can be steered 
towards rehabilitation programmes. Families in 
which there is a high incidence of addiction can 
also be identified more easily and appropriate 
support provided. 

We include cannabis in this. Cannabis was used 
by 5.3 million 16-24 year-olds in the last year, 
according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 
and this is extremely worrying. Teenage cannabis 
users are five times more likely to develop 
depression and anxiety, and those who use 
cannabis at around age fifteen have an above


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average risk of developing 
schizophrenia or bipolar 
disorder. That risk is increased 
in those with a genetic 
vulnerability. 

Cannabis can cause lasting 
psychotic illness. UKIP will 
ensure this message is 
emphasised by social workers, 
teachers, doctors, 
and magistrates. 

MENTAL HEALTH 
SUPPORT FOR ARMED 
FORCES PERSONNEL 
AND VETERANS 

Over 5,000 service personnel 
were diagnosed with a mental 
health problem in 2014, but 
even this shocking statistic 

Our nation has a duty to provide mental health 
support to those in our armed forces: many have 
served multiple tours of combat duty and may 
need a great deal of specialist help 

Mike Hookem MEP 


may hide a wider problem. The 
charity Combat Stress says 40 
per cent of serving personnel 
with symptoms do not seek 
help from the specialist Defence 
Mental Health Services (DMHS) 
because of general stigma. This 
trend continues after discharge. 

To encourage serving 
personnel and veterans to 
report mental health issues, 
receive a diagnosis and 
access services, UKIP will: 

&bull; 
Integrate mental wellbeing 
monitoring into existing 
medical examinations 
for serving armed forces 
personnel in potentially 
traumatic or &bquo;at risk&equo; roles 
&bull; 
Extend the period during 
which discharged service 
personnel are able to 
access the specialist 
DMHS scheme from six 
months to two years. 
WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Offer swift access to vital mental health &bull; Address and treat the strong link between 
services for patients diagnosed with addiction and mental illness 
debilitating long-term conditions and 
&bull; 
End the postcode lottery for psychiatric 
terminal illnesses 

liaison services in acute hospitals and A&E 

&bull; 
Provide direct access to specialist mental departments. 
health treatment for all pregnant women and 
mothers of children under 12 months of age 
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A Brighter Future for our Next Generation 


Political interference in education has failed children. We are tumbling 
down the international education league tables and rising up the ranks 
for youth unemployment. UKIP will reintroduce grammar schools, invest 

in vocational education and technical training, scrap tuition fees for STEM 

subjects and prepare our young people for the world of work 


UKIP's approach to education is one where no 
child is held back and where education is as 
responsive as possible to individual needs. Our 
children differ vastly when it comes to talent 
and speed of development. Our education 
system needs to be far more flexible. 

STARTING SCHOOL: 
THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM 


Without reading, writing, mathematical and learning 
abilities you will be held back in life and struggle 
to find well-paid work. UKIP welcomes the recent 
reintroduction of phonics to the classroom and 
we will make this the model for teaching children 
to read and write. We will renew focus on mental 
arithmetic skills and learning times tables, and 
encourage children to learn languages from year 1 
of primary school, when they will find it easier. 

Britain has produced some of the most 
remarkable people in world history, 
some of the best thinkers, innovators, 
leaders, and creators. We must keep 
that trend going: boosting educational 
opportunities for our young people and 
giving them every opportunity to help 
them realise their dreams. 

David Kurten AM, 

Education Spokesman 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 
MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Abolish Key Stage 1 SATs. Seven is 
too young to be tested and this test 
narrows the curriculum and puts 
pressure on teachers to concentrate 
time and resources on borderline 
pupils. 
&bull; 
Require every primary school to 
nominate a science leader to inspire 
and equip the next generation of 
scientists and engineers 
&bull; 
End sex education in primary schools. 
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SECONDARY EDUCATION 

UKIP's approach to secondary 
education focuses on a range 
of different schools: technical, 
vocational, selective grammars, 
and specialist schools. 

A GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN 
EVERY TOWN 

The state education system of 
grammar, secondary modern 
and technical schools was 
designed to make a high 
standard of education available 
to all, irrespective of social 
background. Grammar schools 
improved social mobility by 
giving children from poorer 
backgrounds access to 
career paths they might have 
previously thought out of 
their reach. When the national 
grammar school system still 
existed, 25 per cent of schools 
were grammar or technical 
schools and nearly 65 per cent 
of their pupils came from the 
working class. They were not 
socially elite institutions, as 
anyone who attended one 
will confirm. 

The 164 grammar schools that 
are left no longer represent this 
classless ideal. Such is the high 
demand, it is often those with 
the most resourceful parents 
who gain access. We need 800 
more Grammar or Technical 
schools so every child who 
would benefit can get a place. 

UKIP will open a grammar 
school in every town, adapting 
the old 11+ system to add 
transfer examinations up to 
the age of sixteen, so pupils 
who develop in an academic 
direction, but not quite so fast, 
will still have the opportunity 
of a grammar school place. 

ON-THE-JOB EDUCATION 

To give students a head start 
into a job, UKIP will introduce 
a scheme similar to Germany's 
Dual Vocational Training system, 

in which students attend 
classes at a vocational school 
and receive on-the-job training 
at a company. Employment 
prospects for children who 
go through this system are 
high. Germany's reputation for 
success in manufacturing and 
industry is second to none. 

UKIP will give our children the 
same educational choice to 
combine theory and practice in 
this way, so they leave school 
with technical knowledge and 
hands-on experience. 

RIGHTING WRONGS IN 
HIGHER EDUCATION 

The average student debt is 
&pound;44,000. The poorest students 
who are now denied a grant 
fare worst of all, with debts 
averaging &pound;53,000. These debts 
are often pointless in career 
terms: the latest figures from the 
ONS show 46 per cent of new 
graduates will not find a job 
needing a degree. The taxpayer 
fares badly too. Only around half 
of the money spent on tuition 
fee loans will be paid back. 

The quota system promoted by 
both Labour and Conservatives 
is not a good enough reason for 
taxpayers to pay for students to 
go to university. Students would 
be better off following another 
route into the workplace than 
taking degrees that are unlikely 
to help them get a job or guide 
them onto their chosen 
career path. 

The politically motivated 
decision to increase university 
places has deceived and 
blighted a generation. UKIP 
will stop paying tuition fees 
for courses which do not lead 
at least two thirds of students 
into a graduate level job, or 
a job corresponding to their 
degree, within five years 
after graduation. We will also 
cease offering EU nationals 
student loans when we leave 

the EU. Repayment rates are 
extremely low and 10,000 EU 
students currently owe Britain 
&pound;89 million. 

TUITION FEES AND 
MAINTENANCE GRANTS 

UKIP's long-term goal is to 
abolish tuition fees entirely and 
we will seek to enact this as 
soon as economic conditions 
allow. Meanwhile, to help 
the poorest students now, 
we will immediately restore 
maintenance grants. 

To plug the skills gap in these 
areas, UKIP will abolish tuition 
fees for undergraduate science, 
technology, engineering and 
mathematics (STEM) students, 
provided they work in their 
discipline and pay tax in the UK 
for at least five years after they 
complete their degree. We will 
cover the cost of all tuition fees 
for medical students, provided 
they commit to working within 
the NHS for at least ten out of 
the fifteen years after 
they qualify. 

PATHWAYS TO 
EMPLOYMENT 

School leavers should have 
an idea of what future career 
they would like to pursue, and 
how they can achieve an 
entry level job in that career. 
UKIP will ensure effective 
career development assumes 
a more important role in the 
national curriculum and is 
assessed accordingly. 

DEVELOPING 
&bquo;EMPLOYABILITY&equo; 

Whatever level of education you 
have achieved, your chance of 
success in the workplace will be 
influenced by more than your 
academic abilities. Employers want 
more from prospective employees 
than just good exam results. 

UKIP will introduce practical 
&bquo;employability&equo; lessons into 

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A Brighter Future for our Next Generation 

the careers' syllabus, teaching &bquo;soft&equo; skills such 
as interview skills, team-working and time-
management, making presentations, public 
speaking, networking, making a good first 
impression, and developing social skills. These 
might not come naturally, but they can be taught. 

LINKING SCHOOLS 
WITH BUSINESS 

Often, the local job market will determine career 
choices, so schools and colleges should establish links 
with local businesses, to tell students what they need 
from new recruits, to offer advice, and to show how 
business works. 

ENCOURAGING TOMORROW'S 
ENTREPRENEURS 

UKIP will include practical information about 
setting up your own business into the syllabus. 
Being self-employed is a sound career choice if 
you have a skill or idea others want to buy, and 
developing the skill to think creatively 
and ambitiously can only help in life and 
the workplace. 

Entrepreneurship education is becoming 
increasingly common in the USA, where it is 
seen to benefit students from all socio-economic 
backgrounds by nurturing unconventional skills 
and talents and encouraging them to &bquo;think 
outside the box.&equo; 


The next generation is the future of the UK. Our 
children need educational solutions that really 
work, not political dogma. Grammar schools, 
dynamic academies and technical schools 
in every town from Toxteth to Twickenham, 
combined with high quality vocational training 
and careers' advice, will deliver real opportunities 
for our children. 

SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS 

UKIP believes all disabled learners must have 
the legal right to attend either mainstream 
courses in mainstream education settings, or 
schools exclusively tailored to their needs. 
It should be their choice. To this end, we will 
reverse the policy of closing special schools, 
and ensure all other schools are accessible to 
disabled learners and that individual support is 
in place for each child. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 

MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Fund all secondary schools according 
to a single formula 
&bull; 
Make First Aid training a statutory 
requirement so pupils obtain 
a &bquo;Basic Life-Saving Diploma.&equo; 
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 
will be included. 
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Caring for Young Children, 
Supporting Families 


Childcare costs in the UK are becoming less affordable for ordinary 
families. The parents of disabled children struggle to find childcare 

at all. Fathers are prevented from seeing their children and the 

family courts are not transparent enough. Tackling these issues 

are key priorities for UKIP. 


Affordable, safe childcare is vital if we are 

to help women obtain or return to work. 

We simply cannot afford to have highly 

skilled, highly trained women leaving 
the workplace, especially not if they are 
working in public service industries such 
as nursing and teaching. 


Margot Parker MEP, 

Women and Equalities Spokeswoman 

UKIP's 2015 general election manifesto 
highlighted the complexity of childcare 
provision in the UK and how difficult it can 
be to find quality childcare, especially if your 
child is disabled, if you work irregular hours, 
or you are on a low income. Despite an increase 
in free childcare provision and new tax-free 
childcare schemes, recent research from the 
Family and Childcare Trust revealed British 
parents now pay more than &pound;6,000 per year on 
average for childcare, double what they spend 
on food and drink. 

The situation we warned about in 2015 has not 
improved but got worse. Perverse government 
policies intended to expand childcare provision 
fuel childcare demand yet fail to cover costs 
incurred by childcare providers. At the same 
time there is an acute shortage of places 
because of over-regulation and higher training 
fees. Nurseries and childminders limit places, raise 
fees, or introduce extra charges in order to 
remain sustainable. Despite more public money 
being allocated to free childcare than ever, the 
number of childminders has plummeted by 
10,000 since 2012. 

This is a typical outcome of policy-making done 
via a &bquo;bidding war,&equo; instead of being thought 
through. In this case, Labour and the 
Conservatives have jockeyed for position 
to see who can offer the highest number of 
free childcare hours for the youngest 
children, without considering the unintended 
consequences, or what else in the system might 
need to change. 

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Caring for Young Children, Supporting Families 

UKIP promised a far-reaching review of 
childcare provision in 2015, and this is still 
urgently needed, not least to de-regulate and 
simplify an increasingly fragmented system. 

Meanwhile, UKIP will allow parents to use their free 
childcare entitlements to access a greater choice 
of childcare providers by removing restrictions 
limiting them only to Ofsted-registered childcare 
providers. We will also: 

&bull; 
Extend the primary school day by offering 
wrap-around childcare from 8am to 6pm 
during term time 
&bull; 
Require local authorities to keep a register 
of childcare providers willing to provide 
emergency childcare cover at short notice 
&bull; 
Amend planning legislation in order to make 
play spaces compulsory in housing estates, 
and to promote nursery or cr�che provision 
in developments such as shopping centres, 
office blocks, hospitals, airports, and 
railway stations. 
CHILDCARE FOR CHILDREN WITH 
SPECIAL NEEDS 

Smaller early years providers may struggle to 
offer places to children with physical or learning 
difficulties because of the extra costs involved 
in maintaining higher staff ratios, delivering 
additional staff training, buying specialist 
equipment and creating accessible changing 
facilities. This inevitably makes it much more 
difficult for such children to access the same high 
quality, flexible early years provision as their able-
bodied peers. 

UKIP will create a fund worth &pound;80 million a year to 
help childminders and smaller childcare providers 
employing five people or fewer, to open their 
doors to more children with special needs. Grants 
of up to &pound;3,000 will be available to adapt their 
premises to make them more accessible, and 

to equip their staff with specialist training and 
equipment, so they can provide a more inclusive 
childcare service. 

KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER 

Our 2015 manifesto promised to legislate for an 
initial 50-50 presumption of shared parenting 
when couples break up. We stand by this, as we do 
our pledge to give visiting rights to grandparents 
and to review the operation of the Family Court. 

The concerns we raised in 2015 about the Family 
Court system, particularly in relation to forced 
adoptions, have become more pressing. Up to 96 
per cent of children adopted from public care are 
forcibly adopted, against their parents' wishes. 
No one wants to see children languishing in care, 
but until the Family Courts are more transparent, 
we cannot know whether decisions are made 
in children's best interests or in response to 
adoption targets. The latter approach risks serious 
miscarriages of justice. 

Maintaining confidentiality in family law 
proceedings is not incompatible with scrutiny. To 
strike the right balance between the two 
we propose: 

&bull; 
Removing the current blanket ban on 
media reporting of placement and adoption 
proceedings and allowing journalists to report 
on such cases on the same basis as other 
family law proceedings 
&bull; 
Publishing all case summaries, skeleton 
arguments, judgements and other documents 
relating to Family proceedings as a matter of 
course, on an anonymised basis 
&bull; 
Requiring expert witnesses to list previous 
court cases in which they have given evidence 
&bull; 
Promoting more extensive use of Special 
Guardianship Orders so that children can 
retain links with their birth family. 
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Meeting our Responsibilities 
to the Elderly and Disabled 

The voluntary sector would probably collapse without the help and 

support of those in later life, and the disabled have overcome challenges 
most of us could not even imagine, yet the Conservative government has 
treated both badly. UKIP will reverse cuts to the adult social care budget 
and end humiliating work capability tests for disabled people. 


People who have worked hard all their 
lives and contributed to our economy 
have been stripped of hot meals and 
essential home help under the Tories, 
and for what? To keep shovelling cash 
out of the door to prop up a corrupt 
foreign aid regime, and fund a railway 
project to help their rich friends get 
home ten minutes faster 

David Sprason, 

UKIP Older People's Champion 

How we respond to older people is an indication 
of the kind of country we live in. We should take 
pride in making public investment into their 
care, regardless of their financial means. 

UKIP remains committed to keeping the winter 
fuel allowance, free bus passes, prescriptions and 
eye tests for all over-60s, without means testing. 
We will maintain the &bquo;triple lock&equo; on the state 
pension, increasing it every year by the highest of 
inflation, average earnings, or 2.5 per cent. 

SECURE FINANCES AND WORTHWHILE 
WORK FOR OLDER PEOPLE 

Age UK says older people contribute around &pound;61 
billion to the economy each year through work, 
caring and volunteering. Advancing age does not 
necessarily mean people want to stop earning, and 
their wisdom and experience should be seen as an 
advantage in the workplace. 

We will encourage businesses to fund job 
placements for older people, and enforce laws 
protecting workers against age discrimination. 

GROWING OLD TOGETHER 

As a population, we are living longer. This would 
be good news were it not for the funding crisis 
in elderly care. The Association of Directors of 
Adult Social Services calculates &pound;4.6 billion has 
been cut from social care budgets since 2010. 
The number of adults eligible to receive social 
care has plummeted by 28 per cent. 

This is counter-productive: the government says 
it wants to help older people stay active and 
independent, but then removes the support they 
need. Most councils only fund those already in 
&bquo;critical&equo; or &bquo;substantial&equo; need and past the point 
of no return. 

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No wonder older people are now more likely to 
be admitted to hospital, and less likely to be able 
to leave hospital when they recover. 6,800 such 
patients every day cannot be discharged, so 
ambulances queue up outside A&E and planned 
operations are cancelled. This inefficiency costs 
the NHS approximately &pound;1 billion a year, and it 
could get worse. 

Last year, research by BBC Radio 4's You and 
Yours found 59 home care companies had already 
handed unprofitable contracts back to local 
authorities, and that one in four care homes may 
go out of business within three years. The Better 
Care Fund was supposed to improve liaison 
between the NHS and local councils and ease 
pressure on hospitals, but the Public Accounts 
Committee found it was &bquo;little more than a ruse.&equo; 
The freedom to raise council tax by two per cent 
to fund adult social care is of least help to councils 
in the poorest areas, who have less income from 
council tax, but the most pressing care needs. 

The only answer is to reverse the cuts to 
care budgets. UKIP will put back money the 
Conservatives have removed, investing 
up to &pound;2 billion every year into social care. 

We will prioritise early intervention schemes and 
community-based models of care that promote 
independence and wellbeing, such as supported 
living arrangements. Institutional and acute care 
models should be a last-resort. 

We will continue to pay Attendance Allowance 
for all people over the age of 65 who need help 
with personal care, including new claimants, 
from central government funds. We reject 
Conservative proposals that this benefit should 
be funded locally for all new claimants. 

SUPPORT CARE STAFF 

Caring can be difficult and frustrating, and care 
staff deserve better pay and respect. We will 
address the culture of long hours, low pay and 

perceived low status that leads to high 
staff turnover. 

UKIP will not allow the NHS, or third parties 
under contract to local authorities, to employ 
home care workers on zero hours contracts. 
Workers must also be paid for travelling time to 
prevent their being paid less than the minimum 
or living wage. 

INVESTING IN DEMENTIA RESEARCH 
AND TREATMENT 

Dementia is predicted to be the UK's biggest 
killer. Already, 850,000 people in Britain live with 
dementia. UKIP will roll out a National Dementia 
Plan to recommend research and treatment 
priorities, and co-ordinate expertise. This plan will 
be developed in cooperation with multi-discipline 
dementia specialists to identify spending priorities 
and deliver a bold new programme of research, 
treatment, care and understanding. 

UKIP will treble the amount we allocated to 
dementia research and treatment in 2015, 
taking our total fresh funding pot to &pound;400 
million each year over the course of the 
next parliament. 

PROTECTING CARE AT HOME 

In January, campaigning organisation Disability 
United exposed clauses in Continuing Healthcare 
policies that stated home-based care would only 
be provided if costs do not exceed residential 
placement costs by a certain percentage, 
generally ten percent. This could mean forcibly 
moving someone into a care home to save 
relatively small amounts of money. 

UKIP will make sure those with on-going health 
care needs choose where they wish to live, 
unless they are unable to make that choice 
themselves, or care at home becomes unviable. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 


&bull; 
Protect services such as meals-on-wheels, 
luncheon clubs, day care services and home care 
&bull; 
Abolish the annual assessment process for 
continuing healthcare funding in respect of those &bull; 
suffering from a degenerative, terminal illness 
&bull; 
Fund a pro-active co-ordinating service for 
older and disabled people in every county 
to combat loneliness, combining resources 
from across the NHS, social services and the 
voluntary sector. 

Introduce a legally binding Dignity Code to 
improve the quality and standard of care for 
older people in hospital, care homes or their 
own home, and protect whistleblowers. 

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Meeting our Responsibilities to the Elderly and Disabled 


UKIP has always opposed the &bquo;benefits lifestyle,&equo; but 

the last government's behaviour has gone far beyond 
anything that is reasonable. UKIP will crack down on 

benefit fraud, but make sure our support and benefits 
system is fair and fit-for-purpose. 

Cllr Star Anderton, UKIP Disability Champion 

AN END TO UNFAIR 
BENEFIT CUTS 

Levels of unmet need for disabled 
and learning disabled people 
are at a record high. Sense, the 
national charity for children and 
adults who are deafblind and 
have complex needs, calculates 
108,000 learning disabled adults 
with moderate to severe needs 
now receive no support at all. Over 
the last year alone, the charity says 
the number of people in receipt of 
support for a sensory impairment 
has decreased by 11.4 per cent. 

UKIP will not cut disability 
benefits. 

ENDING THE INJUSTICE OF 
PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE 
PAYMENTS 

Personal Independence 
Payments, or PIPs, are replacing 
the Disability Living Allowance 
(DLA). Without a PIP, disabled 

people cannot access other 
benefits such as Carer's Allowance 
or the charitable Motability 
scheme to get a powered 
wheelchair or accessible car. 

PIPs were supposed to help 
disabled people into work 
and pay a range of disability 
benefits based on individual 
need, but they seem to have 

become a covert way of 
slashing the benefit bill. Since 
disabled people were required 
to undergo a new battery of 
medical tests, 250,000 of them 
have had their benefit cut. 

Some 300 people a day who have 
their benefits cut following reassessments 
are appealing against 
these new decisions, at a cost of 
&pound;1 million a week to the taxpayer. 
They are right to appeal, as six out 
of ten appeals are successful, but 
while they await the outcome of 
their appeals, many are falling into 
debt, and have vital support or 
equipment taken away from them. 
50,000 people have had accessible 
vehicles removed since PIPs 

were introduced. 

The current Work Capability 
Assessments are not fit for 
purpose. We will reform them in 
consultation with disabled people 
and disability charities. They must 
accurately assess the barriers 
faced by disabled people to enter 
employment, and indicate what 
specialist employment support 
will be needed for those who are 
ready for work. 

SUPPORTING CARERS 

We recommit to giving carers an 
extra five days' paid holiday each 
year, and increasing 
Carer's Allowance from &pound;62.70 
per week to &pound;73.10 a week, to 
match the higher level of Job 
Seeker's Allowance. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 


&bull; 
Protect the rights of 
the disabled 
&bull; 
Scrap the bedroom tax 
&bull; 
Give tenants the right to 
&bull; 

request Housing Benefit 
is paid direct to their 
landlords, whatever benefit 
scheme they are on 

&bull; 
Improve carers' access 
to support by sharing 
information on benefit and 
social care entitlements 
and on support groups 
across all public services 

Exempt foodbanks 
and charity shops from 
charges imposed by local 
authorities to dispose of 
unwanted food waste and 
other goods. 

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Fair, Balanced Migration 


Britons are among the most welcoming and tolerant people in the world, yet 

they have lost faith in our immigration system. There is nothing in the track 

records of any of the other parties that suggests they have the necessary 
political will to address the concerns of the British people, but UKIP will. 

Brexit offers an opportunity to calm public 
concerns about immigration while still allowing 
the brightest and the best from around the 
world to make their home in Britain, and 
contribute to our society and our economy. 

Immigration has placed huge pressure on public 
services and housing. It has affected the domestic 
labour market, where wages for manual and low-
paid jobs have stagnated. Community cohesion 
has been damaged. 

LABOUR'S GREATEST FOLLY 

Unsustainable immigration to Britain began 
with Tony Blair's Labour government: Peter 

Mandelson admitted &bquo;search parties&equo; were sent 
out to encourage migrants to come to Britain, and 
the plan to &bquo;rub the Right's nose in diversity&equo; did 
indeed, as Blair's favourite think tank, the Institute 
for Public Policy Research, put it, &bquo;change the face 
of the country.&equo; Allegations of racism, and a raft of 
faith, race and equalities legislation shut down any 
criticism of Blair's policy, and the benefits system 
was abused to &bquo;bribe&equo; Labour's core vote. 

TORY IMMIGRATION FAILURE 

Labour ultimately paid the electoral price for their 
wilful blindness to problems caused by mass 
immigration, but the Conservatives have failed just 
as badly, for seven years reneging on their pledge 

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Fair, Balanced Migration 

to bring annual net migration 
down to the &bquo;tens of thousands.&equo; 

Theresa May admitted in 2015 
the case for high immigration 
on economic grounds has 
been massively overstated, yet 
did nothing about it, and still 
appears prepared to carry on 
with unlimited EU immigration 
for many years ahead. 

UKIP is the only party with the 
political will and the plan to 
cut immigration. 

BALANCED NET MIGRATION 
OVER FIVE YEARS 

UKIP will establish a Migration 
Control Commission and set a 
target to reduce net migration 
to zero, over a five-year period. 

This means approximately 
halving gross immigration 
for a five-year period. This 
will still allow us to bring in 
the key skills we need, while 
giving a breathing space to 
public services under immense 
pressure. Senior Labour 
parliamentarian, Frank Field, has 
argued the case for balanced 
migration such as this for 
many years. 

FAIR, EQUITABLE 
IMMIGRATION 

To make immigration fair and 
equitable, we will introduce a 
new Australian-style points-
based system, and a work permit 
system. Both will apply equally 
to all applicants, save for citizens 
of the Republic of Ireland, with 
whom we will maintain our 
current arrangements. 

To give working class people 
in particular a chance to find 
employment, we will place a 
moratorium on unskilled and 
low-skilled immigration for five 
years after we leave the EU. 

We will also operate a seasonal 
worker scheme based on six-
month visas to support those 

As part of our overall commitment to a more stringent 
and better run immigration system, UKIP will increase the 

number of Border Agency staff by 4,000 and implement 

technology solutions to ensure all passport and visa 
holders are counted in and out 

John Bickley, Immigration Spokesman 

sectors, such as agriculture, which 
need additional labour for short 
but predictable periods of time. 

A NEW INTERNATIONAL 
VISA SYSTEM 

Operated on a strict principle 
of non-discrimination between 
peoples of all nations applying 
for work, study, or to visit the 
United Kingdom, our new 
International Visa System will 
begin on the date we leave the 
EU and offer four principal visa 
categories: 

1. WORK VISAS 
Highly skilled workers with a job 
offer sponsored by companies 
paying them a minimum of 
&pound;30,000 per annum will have 
priority. 

2. TOURIST AND 
VISITOR VISAS 
Covering those who come to 
Britain as tourists, to conduct 
business, or to see their family, 
these will be valid for up to 
twelve months. 

3. STUDENT VISAS 
We want to encourage students 
to study in Britain, but will not 
tolerate abuse of the system. 

4. FAMILY REUNION VISAS 
We respect the right of British 
citizens to form relationships with 
non-British citizens; however, 
we will abolish the European 
Economic Area (EEA) family 
permit scheme and reinstate the 
primary purpose rule. Foreign 

nationals marrying British citizens 
will have to prove the primary 
purpose of their marriage is not 
to obtain British residency. 

ASYLUM SEEKERS 

UKIP will comply fully with the 
1951 UN Convention Relating 
to the Status of Refugees, and 
honour our obligations to bona 
fide asylum seekers. 

ACCESS TO WELFARE 

AND THE NHS 

All new migrants to Britain 
will be expected to make 
tax and national insurance 
contributions for at least five 
consecutive years before they 
become eligible to claim UK 
benefits, or access non-urgent 
NHS services, save for any 
exceptions stipulated by the 
Migration Control Commission, 
or if reciprocal healthcare 
arrangements are in place with 
their country of origin. All new 
entrants to the UK must have 
and maintain comprehensive 
private medical insurance for 
the duration of their stay, as a 
condition of their visa. 

BRITISH CITIZENSHIP 

Those arriving on Work Visas 
may apply for British citizenship 
after five years, provided they 
have worked, paid tax here, 
and maintained their medical 
insurance throughout that 
time. We will revoke the British 
citizenship of those who 
have obtained it by fraud or 
deception and remove them 
from the country. 

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Fair, Balanced Migration 

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND 

FOREIGN CRIMINALS 

There will be no amnesty for illegal immigrants. 
We will increase the number of immigration 
compliance and enforcement teams. Foreign 
criminals will not be granted a visa to enter the 
UK. Migrants who commit crimes resulting in a 
custodial sentence will have their visa revoked and 
be detained until they are deported. 

THE RIGHTS OF EU NATIONALS 

UKIP will allow law-abiding EU citizens living in the 
UK before Article 50 was triggered the right to stay 
here indefinitely. We expect the same concession 
to be granted to British citizens living overseas 
within the EU. 

EU nationals who entered the UK after 29th March 
2017 will not have the automatic right to remain 
and when we leave the EU will lose access to all 
benefits, including non-urgent healthcare. No 

benefits will be paid for any dependants living 
overseas when we leave the EU. 

INTEGRATION IS AS IMPORTANT 
AS IMMIGRATION 

In Britain, we do not believe in treating women 
or gay people as second-class citizens, and we 
hold to a fundamental belief in democracy and 
free speech. UKIP's points-based immigration 
system will therefore include one further major 
principle: we will test the social attitudes of 
migration applicants to foster community 
cohesion and protect core British values. 

UKIP's immigration policies will bring to Britain 
the brightest, the best, and those with the 
talents our economy most needs. They are fair, 
equitable, and similar to those operating in 
numerous other countries worldwide, such as 
Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. They will 
benefit Britain, and redress the imbalance that 
has caused so much frustration, for so long. 

"Only UKIP's immigration policy has, at its heart, a sustainable, ethical and 
fair system that will restore public faith in the process. We recognise the 
new openness in our world and the positive benefits controlled, balanced 
immigration can bring to our nation." 

John Bickley, Immigration Spokesman 

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Britain United Under One Law For All 


Britain has always welcomed people of whatever faith, nationality or creed 
who have wanted to make their home in this country, but a lack of vision 
for an integrated Britain has led to our society becoming more and more 
fragmented. UKIP will take integration as seriously as we have immigration, 
and we will not tolerate the intolerable. 


UKIP stands for a country united under 
the same set of laws and values. We 

believe firmly that a multi-ethnic society 

can be a harmonious and successful 
one, but only if it is bound together by an 
over-arching attachment to Britain and 
British identity. In treating all practices 
and traditions as being of equal standing, 

however much they might offend our 

values and laws, our national leaders have 
made a grave error. 

Peter Whittle AM, 

Deputy Leader and Culture Spokesman 

Over many years, the policy of &bquo;multiculturalism&equo; 
has fragmented British society by allowing 
new migrants to Britain to behave in exactly 
the same way as they would if they were still 
in their countries of origin. Multiculturalism 
has prevented criticism of certain religious 
beliefs and cultural practices, even those the 
overwhelming majority of British people would 
consider repugnant, and which threaten rights 
and equalities established in Britain 
for decades. 

Nobody voted for multiculturalism, yet all of us are 
living with the results of it. It is generally those who 
have little interest in preserving British identity, or 
who are indeed hostile to the very idea of it, who 
champion multiculturalism most fiercely. They are 
vociferous in shutting down debate. 

UKIP will stand up for the equal rights of all 
people in Britain, and say we are proud of our 
country and its achievements, our values of 
free speech, democracy, independence, and 
patriotism. We will promote British values in our 
legal system, in our schools, and in our society. 

ONE LAW FOR ALL 

A society that can pick and choose what legal 
system it lives under gradually ceases to be a 
society at all. 

The growth of sharia councils is of great concern 
to the public, as is the apparent unwillingness of 
the political class to prevent them proliferating. 
UKIP will take action: we will establish a legal 
commission to draw up proposals to disband 
sharia councils. 

It is simple: there should be one law for all. 

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My generation was at the forefront of 
tackling sexist attitudes towards women. 
I remember celebrating the Equal Pay 
Act and the Sex Discrimination Act in the 
1970s, and believed we were well on the 
way to winning the battle for equal rights, 
in society, in the workplace and in our 
homes. But now the threat to women's 
emancipation is as serious as ever. We 
cannot take our rights for granted. 

Margot Parker MEP, 

Women and Equalities Spokeswoman 

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL WOMEN 

If we compare the rights of women in the UK to 
those of the majority of women overseas, the 
contrast is striking. Acceptance of the concept 
of sexual equality is largely confined to a handful 
of economically advanced nations. Mass 
uncontrolled immigration has opened the door 
to a host of people from cultures with little or no 
respect for women, yet when their views have 
been challenged, some on the &bquo;Left&equo; of politics, 
in particular, have encouraged them to claim a 
&bquo;victim&equo; status they do not deserve. 

UKIP will challenge those who do not uphold 
the rights of women, or who set themselves on 
a deliberate collision course with core British 
values of equality, free speech and democracy. 
We will protect all women, regardless of their 
race, ethnicity or religion. Culture is not an 
excuse for crime, nor is ignorance of the law. 

STANDING UP FOR WOMEN IN 
MINORITY COMMUNITIES 

Every woman, indeed anyone who believes 
in women's rights, should be outraged by the 
appalling practices occurring on a daily basis in 
minority communities across Britain. 

A new case of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) 
is reported in Britain every hour. 14 NHS clinics 
in England deal exclusively with FGM cases and 
65,000 girls are thought to be at risk of FGM. The 
practice of &bquo;breast ironing&equo; also appears to be 
increasingly prevalent in the UK, with around 1,000 
cases identified. Some 11,000 incidences of so-
called &bquo;honour&equo; crime were recorded by UK police 
forces during 2010-2014, and there were eighteen 
recorded cases of honour killings during the same 
period. Government research in 2011 found that 

between 5,000 and 8,000 people are at risk of 
being forced into marriage every year. 

UKIP will show zero tolerance to all these 
crimes and aim to eradicate them from 
our country. Bigots who shout &bquo;racism&equo; or 
&bquo;Islamophobia&equo; will not intimidate us. They 
legitimise the problem and demonstrate their 
ignorance. We are proud of our position. They 
need to get their moral compasses fixed. 

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION 

The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act (1985) 
made FGM illegal, but there has not been a single 
successful prosecution. The current approach, 
which focuses on education and support alone, 
fails thousands of girls every year. In addition to 
current programmes, we will also: 

&bull; 
Make failure to report a known instance of 
FGM a criminal offence 
&bull; 
Implement a screening programme for girls 
identified to be at risk of FGM from birth to 
age sixteen, consisting of annual non-invasive 
physical check-ups 
&bull; 
Carry out additional check-ups on girls at 
risk when they return to the UK from trips 
to countries where FGM is known to be 
customary 
&bull; 
Make FGM an indictable offence (meaning it 
can only be heard in the Crown Court) with a 
sentencing starting point of six years. 
Measures similar to these are already law in 
France, which has a far better record than we 
have on preventing and prosecuting FGM. 
These policies are already proven to work. 
They will protect girls from FGM by deterring 
those who would harm them and help provide 
essential evidence to mount prosecutions when 
FGM has taken place. 

Prosecutions in France have played a vital role 
in getting parents to abandon the practice of 
FGM. Parents are complicit in allowing their 
children to be cut, and we will instruct police 
forces and the Crown Prosecution Service to 
rigorously investigate and pursue them, as well 
as those who actually commit the act. 

OTHER &bquo;CULTURAL&equo; CRIMES 

Women at risk from their own families and 
communities need our help and protection. UKIP 
will uphold the integrity of British law and ensure it 
applies to each individual equally, irrespective of 
his or her race, faith or ethnic origin. We will: 

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Britain United Under One Law For All 

&bull; 
Make &bquo;breast ironing&equo; a 
specific criminal offence 
&bull; 
Add &bquo;offences committed to 
protect family or personal 
honour&equo; to the Sentencing 
Council's list of aggravating 
factors, giving leave to 
impose greater sentences 
&bull; 
Prosecute all cases of child 
and forced marriage and 
refuse permanent leave 
to remain and/or British 
citizenship to any adult 
known to have procured 
a child marriage for 
themselves or their children 
&bull; 
Make certain that neither 
the legal nor the welfare 
system in Britain ever 
recognises polygamy 
&bull; 
Include information 
on cultural crimes in 
safeguarding training for 
teachers, staff and 
school governors. 
SHOW YOUR FACE IN A 
PUBLIC PLACE 

UKIP will ban wearing of 
the niqab and the burqa in 
public places. Face coverings 
such as these are barriers 
to integration. We will not 
accept these de-humanising 
symbols of segregation and 
oppression, nor the security 
risks they pose. 

Suggestions that UKIP is 
undermining liberty with this 
policy are absurd. There is no 
human right to conceal your 
identity. If anything prevents 
liberty, it is the niqab, by 
preventing women from being 
perceived as individuals in their 
own right. We want to open 
opportunities to all women, so 
that they can participate fully 
in life and in the workplace. 
Clothing that hides identity, puts 
up barriers to communication, 
limits employment opportunities, 
hides evidence of domestic 

abuse, and prevents intake of 
essential vitamin D from sunlight 
is not liberating. 

We stand in solidarity with 
women worldwide who 
are rebelling against the 
imposition of the niqab 
and burqa. 

ENDING ISLAMIST 
EXTREMISM IN 
OUR SCHOOLS 

Three years ago, the &bquo;Trojan 
Horse&equo; scandal revealed how 
Islamists had attempted to 
take over several schools in 
Birmingham and use them 
to propagate their warped 
ideology. 

The plot nearly succeeded, and 
hundreds of young minds were 
at risk. We must never again be 
caught napping like this: we 
must wake up to the reality that 
extremism is taking hold in 
our country. 


"Those of us 
who identify 
as lesbian, gay, 
bisexual and 

transgender 

may have 
first hand 



experience of how misogynistic 
and homophobic attitudes 
are tolerated in the name of 
&bquo;respecting cultural differences.&equo; 


It is important to stand up for 

true equality in the face of those 
who would dismiss it." 

Flo Lewis, Chair, 

LGBT in UKIP 

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Britain United Under One Law For All 

The failure to address the crucial topic 
of integration has led to a dangerous 
situation where young people with little 
or no experience of wider British society, 
except having been told that it is bad, are 
at risk of being brought up as hardline 
and potentially violent Islamists. 

David Kurten AM, 

Education Spokesman 

Until such time as the Muslim community is better 
integrated, UKIP proposes: 

&bull; 
Immediately putting into Special Measures 
schools found to be exposing children to 
Islamism 
&bull; 
Giving schools the right to dismiss forthwith 
any teachers, members of staff or governors 
found to be actively supporting radical 
mosques or imams 
&bull; 
Requiring Ofsted to conduct snap inspections 
of schools when parents or pupils have raised 
concerns that: 
Girls are being offered unequal access 
to music, dance, PE or drama lessons, or 
are otherwise discriminated against 

¡ 

Anti-Western, anti-Semitic, or anti-
equality views are being expressed by 
staff or governors 

¡ 

Muslim or non-Muslim pupils who 
challenge or do not share hardline views 
are being bullied or ridiculed. 

¡ 

Strong actions, not political correctness, 
are needed now, or we will all suffer the 
consequences in the future. 


WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Declare St George's Day, April 23rd, as a &bull; Protect religious freedoms in accordance 
Bank Holiday in England; and St David's with Article 18 of the Universal Declaration 
Day, 1st March, in Wales of Human Rights, provided those beliefs 
exist firmly within the framework of British 

&bull; 
End the use of multi-lingual formating 
law. We will not condone any faith position 

on official documents. These will be 

that is itself intolerant of the human rights 

published only in English and, where 

of others 

appropriate, Welsh and Gaelic 

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Policing, Prison, Punishment 


UKIP is the only party prepared to put its faith in imprisonment and a 
strong police force as the bedrock of our criminal justice system. 
We will promote rehabilitation, but also believe in containment, 
deterrence and punishment. 


The Tories used to claim they were the 
party of law and order but on this, like on 
so much else, they have let the British 

people down. Their new definition of the 

purpose of prison does not even use 
the word &bquo;punishment.&equo; The Tories seem 
more interested in prosecuting loyal 
former service personnel than they are in 
reprimanding real criminals. 


Jane Collins MEP, 

Home Affairs Spokeswoman 

The wealthy might feel safe, secreted away 
in large houses in lovely areas, living behind 
electronic gates and protected by top-of-the 
range burglar alarms. It is a different story for 
working class people forced to watch as their 
communities are blighted by the criminality and 
antisocial behaviour perpetrated by a wrecking 
minority on their less gentrified estates. It 
seems only UKIP will stand up for them. 

Our approach to criminality contrasts starkly 
with that of the other parties. As Home Secretary, 
Theresa May was soft on crime. She went the way 
of the Labour party, putting the human rights of 
offenders before those of their victims, tiptoeing 
around even the most hardened criminals, instead 
of concentrating on protecting the public. 

We will not tolerate a perverse criminal justice 
system that allows criminals to get away with 
serious crimes or repeat offending because the 
police are under-resourced. We will train and 
deploy 20,000 more police and employ 7,000 
more prison officers. 

REBUILDING OUR POLICE FORCES 

The thin blue line is no longer just thin, it is 
malnourished and emaciated. In their report 
of March 2017, Her Majesty's Inspectorate 
of Constabulary highlighted an erosion of 
preventative policing and revealed a catalogue 
of failings. Emergency calls were deliberately 
downgraded when fewer officers were on duty, 
and gang violence was not classified as organised 
crime to avoid having to deploy additional 
resources. High-risk domestic abuse victims were 
downgraded to a lower level of concern, and 
officers were assigned to investigations they were 
not qualified to conduct. Forces struggled to find 
resources to investigate violent crimes. 

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"UKIP says: &bquo;If you can't do the time, 
don't do the crime.&equo; We think crime 
must always merit punishment. 
However much of a waste of a life 
it might seem to keep someone 
locked up, if that is what it takes to 
keep others safe, we will keep them 
locked up". 


Peter Jewell, 

Justice Spokesman 

Theresa May's legacy as Home Secretary has 
been to produce a police force that cannot be 
relied upon to investigate crime properly, and 
crime figures that cannot be relied upon at all. 

The job of police officers is to prevent crime, keep 
people safe and catch criminals. We will give them 
the resources they need to succeed. We will train and 
employ 20,000 more frontline officers and equip them 
with all they need to conduct proper investigations, 
and track and arrest more suspects. These jobs will 
first be offered to ex-armed forces personnel. 

STOP AND SEARCH 

In 2014, Theresa May weakened Stop and Search, 
saying it was undermining relations with ethnic 
minority communities. UKIP warned this would 
lead to an increase in knife crime and, sadly, we 
have been proved right. Knife crime rose 24 per 
cent in London last year when 61 people were 
knifed to death in the city. Sixteen people were 
stabbed and killed in London in just the three 
weeks before this manifesto went to print. 

Theresa May showed weakness and inconsistency 
on Stop and Search and this has cost lives. UKIP 
agrees with the father of murdered schoolboy 
Damilola Taylor: the police need greater Stop and 
Search powers to combat knife crime. 

UKIP will reinstate full Stop and Search 
powers to the police and reduce the burden of 
paperwork police have to complete each time 
they exercise this function. 

SORTING OUT OUR PRISONS 

Our prisons are overcrowded, understaffed, and 
rapidly becoming hotbeds of violence and Islamist 

extremism. Drug use is also rising. These factors 
unite to increase the risk of prison rioting, or of 
prison officers losing control, which could lead to 
serious injury or loss of life. This vicious circle has 
to stop. UKIP will: 

Boost the number of prison officers by 7,000: 

There are 7,000 fewer prison officers, supervising 
officers and custodial managers working in England 
and Wales than in 2010. Restoring this number will 
restore adequate staffing levels. These jobs will be 
offered first to ex-armed forces personnel. 

Reduce Prison Overcrowding: 68 per cent of our 
prisons are overcrowded, according to the latest 
Ministry of Justice statistics. The Conservatives 
plan to build four new prisons, close older jails, 
and reduce the numbers of people incarcerated 
to solve the problem. UKIP thinks this is potentially 
disastrous: those who benefit most from prison 
are the law-abiding people who do not go. We will 
keep all existing prisons open and continue with 
the current building programme. We will send as 
many as possible of the 13,000 foreign nationals 
in our jails back to their home countries and, in 
future, will seek to have foreign criminals serve 
sentences in their countries of origin. If they wish 
to appeal against their convictions they must do 
so from their country of origin and pay their own 
costs. Our tough immigration policies will weed 
out potential troublemakers. 

Cut Violence in Prisons: Serious assaults within 
prison walls are increasing. Two prison guards 
are attacked every day, a threefold rise in just 
four years, and there were also 18,510 prisoneron-
prisoner attacks during 2016. We will bring all 
those who assault prison staff or other prisoners 
before the courts. 

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Tackle Illegal Drug Use: 

Prisoners testing positive for 
illegal substances while in 
prison will be limited to &bquo;closed&equo; 
visits from friends or family 
for six months, meaning they 
will be separated from their 
visitors by glass. Prisoners are 
encouraged to deal with drug 
addiction problems during 
their incarceration, and we do 
them no favours by not taking a 
tough line. 

Address Islamist Extremism: 

All criminals are at risk of 
becoming radicalised behind 
bars, not just the 14.4 per 
cent of Muslim prisoners. 
The Quilliam Foundation, a 
counter-extremism think-tank, 
says prisons risk becoming 
&bquo;universities of terror&equo; unless 
extremists are segregated from 
the wider prison population. 
This approach is shortly to 
be piloted at three prisons, 
along with &bquo;de-radicalisation&equo; 
programmes. We will monitor 
progress and extend these 
schemes if they are successful. 
We will also: 

&bull; 
Ensure no prisoner has 
better &bquo;perks&equo; than any other, 
whatever their faith 
&bull; 
Refuse admission to prisons 
to any imam, preacher or 
individual known to promote 
views contrary to 

British values 

&bull; 
Give prison governors new 
powers to impose measures 
to combat Islamic extremism 
and gang violence in 
prisons. 
We will review the sentencing 
regime for police, prison staff 
or other law enforcement 
officials convicted of crimes. 
We take an especially dim 
view of corruption, for which 
we will impose minimum five-
year sentences. 

TOUGHER ACTION ON 
&bquo;HONOUR&equo; CRIME AND 
GROOMING GANGS 

The Sentencing Council 
produces guidelines listing 
&bquo;aggravating factors&equo; which 
make a crime more serious, so 
it may incur a higher sentence 
on conviction. We propose 
that so-called &bquo;honour crimes&equo; 
should be added to that list. We 
will also make it clear that the 
aggravating factor of &bquo;racial or 
religious motivation&equo; may apply 
to any offender, of any race 
or faith. 

THE 2003 LICENSING ACT 

This Act relaxed opening 
hours for pubs, bars and clubs 

and increased the number 
of establishments able to 
serve alcohol. The social 
consequences have not 
resembled the &bquo;continental-
style cafŽ culture&equo; Tony Blair 
claimed it would. A survey of 
emergency workers carried 
out in 2015 by the Institute of 
Alcohol Studies revealed 52 
per cent of paramedics, 42 per 
cent of A&E doctors and three-
quarters of police officers have 
been attacked in the course of 
their duties by people who were 
intoxicated. 

To protect emergency workers 
from abuse, we will repeal the 
2003 Licensing Act and bring 
in new legislation to reduce 
the density of alcohol outlets 
and restrict trading times. 

THE EUROPEAN 
ARREST WARRANT 

UKIP will opt out of the European 
Arrest Warrant. The EAW is 
in fundamental opposition to 
the principle of &bquo;innocent until 
proven guilty.&equo; We will cooperate 
fully with extradition 
requests, but not allow British 
citizens to be extradited to a 
foreign jurisdiction for minor 
crimes, when there is no clear 
case against them, or when they 
are unlikely to receive a fair trial. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 


&bull; 
Repeal Labour's Human Rights legislation &bull; Update licensing laws to limit the 
and remove the UK from the jurisdiction of maximum stake on fixed-odds betting 
the European Court of Human Rights. terminals to &pound;2 
&bull; 
Introduce a new UK Bill of Rights. &bull; Keep and enforce current legislation on 
the use of illegal drugs
&bull; 
Prevent foreign criminals from entering the UK 
and introduce a fast-track deportation system &bull; Refuse to give prisoners the vote 
for those convicted of crimes in the UK 
&bull; 
Adopt a zero tolerance approach to anti&bull; 
Prosecute all cases of adult sexual social behaviour and nuisance and noisy 
behaviour with under-age minors, and neighbours 
maintain the current age of consent 
&bull; 
Make the setting up of a traveller pitch 
without permission a criminal offence. 
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Britain's New Role in the World 


By reclaiming our status as an independent, democratic nation, the UK can 
through force of example play a role similar to that it played through force 
of arms in two World Wars: that of a shining star illuminating the way ahead 
for other European countries. 


Brexit means stepping boldly out into 
a global world as an important actor 
on the world stage. Free to pursue a 
foreign policy prioritising British interests 
and the security of our nation, UKIP will 
ensure the safety, wealth and prosperity 
of British citizens, while meeting ourinternational responsibilities. 


Paul Nuttall, 

UKIP Leader 

There is no question about it: when we leave the 
EU, Britain will retain her status as a permanent 
member of the United Nations Security 
Council, and as a leading member of NATO, the 
organisation that has been the bedrock of our 
security since the aftermath of the Second World 
War. We will sustain our position within the special 
intelligence &bquo;Five Eyes&equo; alliance with the US, 
Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and continue 
to value our home within the Commonwealth. 

Indeed, Brexit means we can help re-invigorate 
the Commonwealth, with trade agreements and 
increased engagement to give these friendly 
countries parity of esteem in our foreign 
relations policy. 

UKIP will stand up for the territorial integrity 
of British dependencies and territories. We 
remain full committed to upholding the right 
to self-determination of the people of the 
Falkland Islands who overwhelmingly wish 
to remain British. We will offer the citizens 
of Gibraltar a referendum on becoming fully 
British, and having their own MP in the 
House of Commons. 

Our EU membership has weakened our foreign 
policy interests, so we naturally welcome our 
coming freedom. However, we will of course 
continue our close cooperation with our European 
partners on matters of defence and security once 
we have left the EU. 

In the context of an American administration 
that is re-evaluating its defence commitment 
to Europe, Britain's position as our continent's 
premier defence power is an asset that will 
strengthen our hand in Brexit negotiations. 

UKIP will work constructively with President 
Trump. We value the special relationship 
between the UK and the US, and do not believe 
gesture politics from establishment politicians 
seeking to demonstrate their disapproval of his 
administration is helpful to our national interest. 
The values shared between the US and the UK will 
always outlast individual political administrations 
in either country. We are confident the Trump 
administration's positive attitude to Britain will lead 
to a swift free trade agreement bolstering 
our common interests. 

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However, UKIP does not believe 
in surrendering our national 
freedom of action, nor pledging 
our armed forces in advance 
to any other nation when it 
comes to important foreign 
policy decisions, such as those 
that occurred in the run-up to 
the Iraq War. UKIP opposed 
Britain becoming involved in this 
conflict from the start. 

UKIP supports the recent 
tradition of consulting 
parliament before our forces 
are committed to combat 
situations. We are proud of our 
pro-active role in opposing 
British participation in the 
planned bombing of Syria 
in 2013. 

The results of western military 
intervention across North Africa 
and the Middle East in the 
21st century have been 
disastrous, from Libya, to Syria, 
Iraq, and even to Afghanistan, 
where a necessary initial 

intervention lost momentum 
and focus because forces were 
switched to the Iraq War. 

In the years ahead, UKIP 
will avoid allowing Britain 
to become embroiled in 
foreign wars. We will maintain 
our sceptical view of neoconservative 
arguments for 
attempting to deliver change 
in the Middle East at gunpoint. 
You cannot bomb people 
into democracy. 

When it comes to the greatest 
threat to world peace and 
the British way of life, UKIP is 
convinced this comes from the 
spread of radical Islam across the 
globe. The threshold for seeking 
to topple anti-Islamist leaders will 
therefore remain very high indeed. 

We want to see a peaceful 
resolution to the Israel-
Palestine conflict and will put 
our full diplomatic weight 
behind seeking this outcome. 

UKIP will seek better relations 
with Russia, but only on the 
basis of Russia changing its 
approach to international 
relations, no longer seeking

 to intervene in and manipulate 
the conduct of politics in 
western nations, and having 
respect for the territorial 
integrity of other countries. 
We see Russia as a potential 
important ally in the struggle 
against Islamist terror, and 
believe Russia should immerse 
itself in global rules-based 
relationships instead of 
seeming to glory in renegade 
status within the international 
community. 

UKIP will retain Britain's 
independent nuclear 
deterrent. Give the continued 
existence of rogue states 
such as North Korea, any 
other policy would be 
utterly irresponsible. 


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Defending Our Nation, Supporting Our Veterans 


Despite the ever-present threat to our safety, our Armed Forces 

have been cut to the bone. UKIP will spend a genuine two per cent 
of GDP on defence, increase the number of those serving in our armed 
forces by 20,000, properly equip those on active service, and look after 
those who are prepared to put their lives on the line for our country, 
in service and when discharged. 



UKIP will restore Britain's armed forces 
to their rightful place among the most 

professional, flexible and effective 
fighting forces in the world, and we 

will sign a new military covenant 
'with our brave heroes.

Mike Hookem MEP, 

Veterans Spokesman 

Cllr. Bill Etheridge MEP, 

Defence Spokesman 

REBUILDING OUR ARMED FORCES 

US President Theodore Roosevelt said the key 
to success in foreign policy was to "speak softly 
but carry a big stick." In the modern era, British 
politicians have all too often shouted loudly 
while carrying a matchstick. 

In 2010, the new Conservative-led government 
began including the Single Intelligence Account, 
Armed Forces pensions and Trident in the 
defence budget, rather than accounting for 
them separately. This sleight of hand budgeting 
allowed them to claim they were still meeting our 
NATO obligation to spend two per cent of GDP on 
defence, when in fact our armed forces were being 
steadily depleted. Tory cuts to the equipment 
programme and manpower have been deep: they 
have put our national security at serious risk. 

THE ARMY 

The Conservatives ignored their manifesto pledge 
to keep army numbers above 82,000: reductions 
imposed on the defence budget since 2010 have 
shrunk the Army to 78,000, its smallest size since 
the Napoleonic Wars. Main battle tank strength 
has been cut by 40 per cent and there has been 
a 35 per cent cut in self-propelled artillery. The 
government's ambition to recruit 30,000 personnel 
to the Territorial Army to address the shortfall 
in regular army manpower was a fatally flawed 
concept and undeliverable from the start. Regulars 
and Territorials are not interchangeable. 

THE ROYAL NAVY 

In 1982, the Royal Navy sent 115 ships, including 
two aircraft carriers carrying jet fighters, plus 23 

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Defending Our Nation, Supporting OurVeterans 

destroyers and frigates, to 
retake the Falkland Islands from 
Argentina. Today, after decades 
of cuts, the Royal Navy is a 
shadow of its former self. The 
surface fleet is currently down to 
just 17 frigates and destroyers. 
The Navy's Harpoon missiles will 
retire from the fleet's frigates and 
destroyers in 2018 without a 
replacement, and there will be a 
two-year gap without helicopter-
launched anti-shipping missiles. 
The Royal Navy has shed 
people faster than ships: we had 
39,000 sailors in 2000; now they 
number only 29,000. 
The Strategic Defence and 
Security Review of 2015 vowed 
to stop cutbacks on the fleet, 
but the damage has already 
been done. 

The two new Queen Elizabeth-
class aircraft carriers will not be 
operational before 2020. 
Even then, serious questions 
remain about whether the 
Royal Navy will be able to man, 
operate and protect them. It 
would take nearly every ship in 
the current surface fleet to form 
an effective carrier group so they 
could be deployed. Moreover, 
it has been widely reported 
that each carrier will routinely 
deploy with only a dozen F-35B 

aircraft. In comparison, the two 
Royal Navy carriers involved in 
the Falklands Conflict carried 
twenty-odd Harrier jump 
jets each. 

THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 

The Royal Air Force is shedding 
one sixth of its staff, some 7,000 
personnel, and 295 aircraft. By 
then, the RAF will have fewer 
than 200 fighter planes for the 
first time since the beginning 
of World War I. Despite Russia 
probing UK air space on a 
regular basis, we no longer have 
any maritime patrol aircraft. 
In 2015, the UK found itself in 
the embarrassing position of 
having to call upon surveillance 
assistance from US, Canadian, 
French and German aircraft, 
more than 20 times. 

Many frontline pilots have 
been on active combat 
operations for more than a 
decade. Combat fatigue has 
taken its toll and experienced 
aircrew are leaving the service. 
The weapons officers who fly 
behind the pilot in the two-
seater Tornado are particularly 
in short supply. After decades 
of Treasury-driven budgetary 
cuts, the RAF finds itself in the 
unhappy position of doing less 

with less, with no prospect of an 
upturn in its fortunes. 

A GENUINE COMMITMENT 
TO OUR NATO OBLIGATIONS 

The Tories have threatened our 
security by leaving huge holes 
in our national defences. They 
have failed the British people, 
who must remain well protected 
in an increasingly dangerous 
world, and those who put their 
lives on the line for us, who must 
be properly equipped. 

Britain must have a well 
resourced, properly manned, 
fit-for-purpose armed force, one 
with the capability to defend 
simultaneously Gibraltar and the 
Falklands Islands, contribute to 
one major theatre operation and 
several peacekeeping missions. 

UKIP will spend a genuine two 
per cent of GDP on defence, and 
scale up defence spending by 
an additional &pound;1 billion per year 
by the end of the parliament. 
UKIP will reverse the demilitarisation 
of our country and 
rebuild our Armed Forces. 

DEFENCE PROCUREMENT 

UKIP will overhaul the wasteful 
defence procurement process. 


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It has lacked proper scrutiny, been based on 
protectionism rather than on the needs of our 
Armed Forces, and is subject to inappropriate 
lobbying and cronyism on a massive scale. 
Even Gordon Brown railed against the 
"incestuous relationship between the Ministry (of 
Defence) and the arms world," although he did 
nothing about it. 

Defence contracts regularly run massively over 
budget and over time. Botched projects have 
become the norm. Despite the fact that Defence 
Equipment and Support (the organisation 
responsible for purchasing equipment) employs 
12,300 people, one for every six full time soldiers 
in the British Army, it has failed to deliver value 
for money for taxpayers and has left service 
personnel at risk. 

UKIP will end the cosy relationship between 
ministers, officials and arms firms that lies at 
the heart of poor defence procurement 
decision-making. 

DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE: A NEW 
MILITARY COVENANT FOR OUR HEROES 

The political class has got its priorities so 
wrong. In February this year, Theresa May 
announced MPs would get a &pound;1,049 pay rise. 
Meanwhile, she capped pensions for 140,000 
British war heroes and widows, giving them 
just &pound;1.10 per week. 

In 2015, UKIP promised to create a new Veterans' 
Administration, organisationally independent and 
financially separate from the Ministry of Defence. 
This is still a priority for us: Britain must do more 
for veterans. 

THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION: 
KEY ROLES 

The Veterans' Administration will have its own 
minister and work with existing veteran services 
and charities. It will provide a single point of 
contact for veterans in a range of fields: health 
care, housing, counselling, education and 
training, rehabilitation, hospital care, access 
to financial services, benefits and memorials. 
The department will also have responsibility 
for issues such as bereavement support, 
homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse and 
veterans' mental health. 

The Veteran's Administration will issue a 
veterans' service card to ensure fast-track 
access to NHS and mental health care, and 
award a National Defence Medal to all veterans, 
irrespective of rank or length of service. 

HOSTELS FOR HOMELESS VETERANS 

No veteran should be homeless, let alone have to 
sleep rough on the street, yet this is happening 
because the Government is not enforcing a law 
stating military heroes must be offered homes. 

UKIP will enforce this law, and build eight 
halfway house veterans' hostels, each with 
200 rooms and modelled on similar hostels 
already in operation. We will also assign 
500 affordable rent homes every year to 
ex-forces personnel. 

GUARANTEED JOBS FOR EX-SERVICEMEN 

AND WOMEN 

UKIP will guarantee a job in the police service, 
prison service or border force for anyone who has 
served in the Armed Forces for a minimum of 
12 years. Our &bquo;Boots to Business&equo; policy will help ex-
service personnel set up their own businesses by 
offering loans, grants, free professional advice and 
mentoring to any veteran who wishes to pursue an 
entrepreneurial career after leaving the forces. 

ENDING LEGAL HARRASSMENT OF 

EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL 

UKIP will not allow veterans to be chased, 
harassed and intimidated by over-zealous human 
rights lawyers, most of whom are unlikely even 
to begin to comprehend the pressures of the 
battlefield. We will bring forward legislation 
preventing veterans from being pursued for 
years by police and prosecutors for actions taken 
whilst in the service of the Crown. We will not 
permit veterans to be tried over allegations of 
misconduct dating from half a century ago under 
any circumstances. 

Veterans should not be sleeping in the streets 
or consigned to the dole, nor hounded for 
doing their jobs. UKIP is determined they will 
get the help, care and respect they deserve. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 

MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Create an over-arching role of Director of 
National Intelligence, who will be lead a 
new, single, unified intelligence service 
&bull; 
Revise the Armed Forces' terms of service, 
to ensure personnel on operational duty 
overseas do not pay income tax 
&bull; 
Oppose any form of military integration with 
the European Union. 
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Trade Not Aid: Eradicating Poverty and 
Securing Britain's Global Future 


UKIP has long believed that trade, not aid, is the most secure route to 
economic prosperity for the developing world. We will reduce the foreign 
aid budget and advance free trade deals to the poorest nations to 
help lift them out of poverty. 



Only UKIP believes our foreign aid 
budget should be reduced and 
reallocated to the NHS and other 
struggling public services. We are not 
afraid to say charity begins at home, 
that the primary responsibility of a 
British government is to protect British 
interests and improve the lives of the 
British people. 

Cllr Lisa Duffy, 

Foreign Aid Spokeswoman 

A 2015 World Economic Forum study 
concluded that in the developing world there 
was &bquo;no effect of aid on growth,&equo; yet UKIP is the 
only party in this election offering voters a real 
choice when it comes to foreign aid spending. 
The others all back spending 0.7 per cent of 
our Gross National Income (GNI), regardless 
of results. 

When carefully targeted, aid can feed the poor and 
heal the sick, but regular aid payments may act as 
a disincentive to economic growth. Between 1970 
and 1998, when aid flows to Africa were at their 
peak, poverty in Africa worsened. Despite receiving 
over &pound;400 billion in aid over the past forty years, 
the continent remains poor. 

It is time to consign to history the idea that 
pouring ever-greater sums into the foreign aid 
budget is a signal of our virtue. It is a hangover 
from the era of celebrity-driven politics 
personified by Tony Blair and David Cameron. 
In many cases, it can be demonstrated to be 
doing more harm than good. 

Leaving the EU gives us the chance to boost 
the fortunes of developing countries by striking 
Free Trade Agreements with them. UKIP will 
make &bquo;Transition to Trade&equo; offers to some of the 
biggest aid recipient nations as we gradually 
reduce the amount of UK taxpayers' money we 
send to them. 

UKIP will close down the Department for 
International Development. We will repeal the 
law requiring us to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI 
on foreign aid and reduce the aid budget to 

0.2 per cent of GNI over time. This will save at 
least &pound;10 billion a year, which we will spend 
on other priorities, such as the NHS. A single 
Minister For Overseas Development working 
out of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 
will administer aid. 
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This will bring Britain's aid spending into line 
with that of other advanced nations, such as the 
USA. We will still be spending around &pound;4 billion 
annually, which is more in cash terms than Spain 
and Italy combined. We will continue to fund 
projects that make a real difference: clean water 
programmes, childhood inoculations, medical 
assistance, and disaster and emergency relief. 

We will offer contracts for aid programmes to 
British providers first, so that we are better able to 
see what results we get from various programmes 
and track spending. We will not allow taxpayers' 
money to be spent by aid organisations such as 
the International Rescue Committee, who pay 
David Miliband a salary of &pound;425,000. 

A DEDICATED BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP 

British medical expertise and disaster support is 
among the best in the world. Our help is always 
welcome in the aftermath of natural disaster, 
disease epidemic, or famine. To increase the 
contribution Britain can make in times of global 
crises, UKIP will commission, equip and staff a 
Naval Ocean-Going Surgical Hospital (NOSH). 

As 95 per cent of the world's largest 100 cities 
are port cities, and 90 per cent of the world's 
population live within 200 miles of the sea, this will 
be an extremely useful way to deliver large-scale 
relief to our armed forces on active 
operational duties, to civilians and refugees in 
war zones, or to undertake humanitarian 
missions in peacetime. The new ship will 
also provide useful reinforcement in case of 
emergencies here at home. 

The new NOSH will have at least 500 beds, a 
flight deck and large hangar to support several 
helicopters, as well as vehicle decks. It will be 
a highly visible ambassador for Britain, and 
will replace the Royal Navy's current sea-borne 
medical capability, RFA ARGUS, which is set to 
retire in 2020. It will not carry weapons, giving 
it the full protection of the Geneva Convention 
in times of war. 

This flagship project will help confirm 
Britain's status as a force for good in the 
world, while simultaneously expanding our 
naval capabilities. 

ETHICAL TRADE WILL ERADICATE POVERTY 

UKIP will not be sorry to see the back of the 
EU's morally repugnant trade tariff regime. It has 
blatantly accentuated poverty in some of the 
poorest nations on earth. African farmers, for 
example, may export raw cocoa beans to the 

Photography by Jim Fraser 
Our focus on trade, not aid, means 
we can establish ethical relationships 
with developing countries by assisting 
agriculture and industrial growth, rather 
than simply sending money that is likely 
to be abused and misspent by 
dubious regimes. 


William Dartmouth MEP, 

Trade Spokesman 

EU without paying any tariffs, but if they want to 
export chocolate, tariffs are high. It is the same 
with coffee. In 2014, the whole of Africa made just 
under &pound;1.6 billion from raw coffee bean exports, 
but Germany alone made &pound;2.6 billion just by 
exporting roasted beans, despite not growing a 
single coffee crop. 

UKIP will seek to support the economies, 
infrastructure development, education, health, 
agriculture and trading capacity of developing 
nations. We will not engage in unethical trade 
practices that harm or inhibit their trade, traditional 
lifestyles, or natural resources. This will be a 
far better way to help developing nations lift 
themselves out of poverty and become self-
sufficient. Even Bono has now admitted it. 

THE WORLD IS OUR OYSTER 

Of all the insults thrown at the Leave campaign by 
the Remain camp, one of the most ludicrous was 
the &bquo;little Englanders&equo; taunt. The polar opposite 
is true: those who voted for Brexit could see a 
brighter, more global and economically successful 
future outside the confines of a contracting and 
ever-more protectionist EU. 

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Trade Not Aid: Eradicating Poverty and Securing Britain's Global Future 

For decades our EU membership 
has been a factor in our diluted 
economic growth, flat-lining 
wages, and diminishing 
influence on the world stage. 
In future, we shall have wider 
and easier access to overseas 
markets. For British consumers, 
choice will increase, prices will 
fall, and we will not be so reliant 
upon monopoly suppliers. 
Increased competition is likely 
to fuel innovation and offer 
opportunities for the transfer of 
expertise and technology, which 
in turn means more jobs, and a 
stronger economy. 

Leaving the EU is not about 
becoming &bquo;little Englanders,&equo; 
it is about putting the &bquo;Great&equo; 
back into Great Britain. It 
is about embracing new 
trading markets in all seven 
continents of the globe. 

Naturally, we should like to 
agree a Free Trade Agreement 
(FTA) with the EU, and continue 
to trade on the same basis as 
at present. As the UK is the EU's 
largest single export market, the 
EU should want to reach a swift 
and sensible trade deal with us. 
However, if the EU continues to 

make unreasonable demands in 
return for even talking about free 
trade, then we must be prepared 
to walk away. 

In circumstances where the EU 
continues to insist Britain pay a 
huge &bquo;divorce&equo; settlement of up 
to Û100 billion, or continues to 
demand we accept the on-going 
jurisdiction of the European 
Court of Justice and allow 
the free movement of people, 
trading with the EU within the 
legal framework of the World 
Trade Organisation (WTO) 
would be the far better option. 

Not having an FTA with the EU 
will not prevent our trading with 
EU businesses, so talk of a &bquo;cliff 
edge&equo; is pure hyperbole. Neither 
could we &bquo;crash out&equo; of the EU, 
because trade is not going 
to stop, whatever happens. It 
should also be remembered that 
the EU is itself a member of the 
WTO and subject to its rules, 
so therefore extremely limited 
in any hostile action it could 
take against Britain. Trading 
on WTO terms will never be a 
&bquo;punishment&equo; option, but may be 
an economically sound choice. 

OUR TRADE PRINCIPLES 

Post-Brexit, UKIP's aim is to 
establish the UK on the world 
market as a low tax, low 
regulation economy. The UK 
will contribute to the World 
Trade Organisation's aim for 
trade to flow as smoothly, 
predictably and freely as 
possible. We will reduce 
tariffs wherever possible, 
unless initiating anti-dumping 
measures, and oppose the 
establishment and continuance 
of protectionist customs unions 
such as the EU. 

The sooner we can start 
making our own free trade 
deals with countries around 
the world, the better. 
Leaving the EU is a win-win 
situation for UK trade, our 
global business partners, 
and developing nations. 
Countries are already queuing 
up to make trade deals with 
Britain: we can only hope 
work is already underway to 
negotiate, conclude, sign and 
ratify those deals so they that 
can come into effect on day 
one after Brexit. 


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Transport: Keeping Britain Moving 


Everyone understands the frustration of being stuck in a traffic jam or 

going nowhere on a delayed train or bus. UKIP will improve our existing 
transport infrastructure instead of investing in vanity projects such as HS2 
and the environmentally destructive third runway at Heathrow. 


Motorists have had enough of being 
treated like cash cows and told to stop 
using their cars. UKIP recognises the 
huge contribution drivers make to our 
economy, and that driving is the only 
viable travel option for many. 
We are the party that stands up for the 
beleaguered motorist. 


Jill Seymour, 

Transport Spokeswoman 

Britain's prosperity depends upon an operational 
road system and reliable public transport networks. 
When transport goes wrong, it has an impact on 
our economy and our businesses, and makes life 
miserable and stressful for those experiencing 
delays and cancellations. UKIP will get the basics 
right, and not waste hundreds of billions of pounds 
on unnecessary transport projects. 

UKIP WILL SCRAP HS2 

Rail travel is essential but HS2 is not. This High 
Speed Rail project is unaffordable, requires 
massive borrowing, will blight people's homes, and 
destroy valuable habitats. Spending &pound;75 billion just 
to save a few minutes between London and Leeds 
is ludicrous and, we think, unethical. 

UKIP will put HS2 out of its misery. We 
will invest in upgrading existing main line 
services to create additional capacity, expand 
electrification, and improve east-west rail 
services and connections across the north 
of England. This will be infrastructure that 
genuinely supports the economic and industrial 
regeneration of the region. A slogan, &bquo;The 
Northern Powerhouse,&equo; achieves nothing. 

ENDING ROAD TOLLS 

Tolling increases costs to business and the 
public, and adds an additional unfair burden on 
the already highly taxed road user. Road tolls are 
modern-day highway robbery, and UKIP will aim 
to remove existing tolls from publicly owned roads 
and block the introduction of new toll roads. 

UKIP opposes the proposed new Thames 
Crossing in Thurrock and will look to re-open 
a consultation for a new crossing further east. 
This will include the option for a crossing 
through Canvey Island, linking the A130 to the 
M2 in Kent. 

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Transport: Keeping Britain Moving 

SUPPORT THE TRANSITION 
TO ZERO EMISSION 
VEHICLES 

Electrically propelled vehicles 
are now a serious option for 
many families but the charging 
infrastructure is not keeping pace. 
UKIP will support the installation 
of rapid charging stations in 
towns and cities, and encourage 
off street parking and charging 
provision in all new housing and 
industrial developments through 
the local planning process. 

DEFENDING 
DIESEL DRIVERS 

In the 1990s, the EU and our 
government promoted diesel 
vehicles, claiming they were more 
environmentally friendly because 
they produced less carbon 
dioxide. Incentives such as higher 
taxes on petrol and cuts to Vehicle 
Excise Duty for diesel cars worked 
and diesel car ownership shot 
up. The &bquo;experts,&equo; however, have 
changed their advice. 

Policy has now U-turned. Punitive 
taxes are being slapped on diesel 
cars and there are calls to ban them 
from city centres. A scrappage 
scheme giving diesel car owners 
up to &pound;2,000 to get rid of their 
vehicles has also been introduced, 
and UKIP supports this; however, 
we will combine it with an incentive 
scheme encouraging drivers to 
exchange their vehicles for electric 
or hybrid models. 

UKIP will prevent diesel drivers 
from being penalised through 
higher taxes, parking fees, 
or emissions' zone charging. 
People bought their vehicles 
in good faith on government 
advice. Milking them now for 
money that simply goes into the 
Treasury is unacceptable. 

SAVING RURAL 
BUS SERVICES 

Rural bus services are vital for 
those living in the countryside who 
do not have the financial means 

or the ability to drive. UKIP will 
provide start-up grants to support 
community bus operators using 
smaller and more efficient buses 
where commercial operators have 
cut essential services. 

AIR PASSENGER DUTY 

Air Passenger Duty has risen rapidly 
since its introduction in 1994. This 
is a tax on holidays as well as an 
additional cost to business. We 
will freeze APD at current levels 
and, when possible in future, seek 
to reduce it with the long-term 
objective of scrapping it completely. 

LONDON AIRPORTS AND 
THE SOUTH EAST 

Living under a flight path is 
damaging to health and wellbeing, 
and the expansion of Heathrow 
airport will make matters worse 
for many thousands more 
people. UKIP is dismayed the 
Conservatives have torn up their 
2010 manifesto pledge not to go 
ahead with the third runway. 

However, there is a clear 
commercial need for additional 


WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Stop mandatory fitment of the e-call vehicle tracking system 
on new cars 
&bull; 
Exempt vehicles over 25 years old from Vehicle Excise Duty 
&bull; 
Not allow speed cameras to be used as revenue-raisers for 
local authorities 
&bull; 
Scrap the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence for 
professionally licensed haulage drivers 
airport capacity in the South East, 
and UKIP is delighted a &pound;100 
million investment plan to revive 
aviation at Manston Airport in 
Kent is now on the table. This 
would not have been possible 
without the tireless campaigning 
of UKIP councillors. An American 
logistics company has unveiled 
plans to acquire the 750-acre site, 
and use it as a base for at least 
a dozen aircraft. Thanet District 
Council is hoping to become a 
partner in a compulsory purchase 
order for the site. 

UKIP will continue to support 
the expansion of smaller 
regional airports. 

THE BRITDISC 

We will keep a record of all 
foreign vehicles entering the UK 
by introducing a windscreen 
mounted identification tag, which 
can be purchased prior to entry. 
This will help identify overseas 
drivers who break UK traffic laws 
and facilitate enforcement action, 
which can be taken prior to exit 
from the country. 

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Protecting our Environment 


Brexit will not put our countryside, our marine environment, or our wildlife 

at risk. The idea that our membership of the EU has been only good 

for our environment is quite simply false. In some ways we have 

benefited, but in others our natural environment has suffered as 

a consequence of EU policy. 

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy has 
damaged our countryside. The Common 
Fisheries Policy has devastated fish stocks 
around our coastline. The way the EU - and our 
government - embraced diesel proved to be 
disastrous, even fatal. The Water Framework 
Directive led to serious flooding in many parts 
of the country by preventing river dredging. 
Repealing this directive will spare homeowners 
the misery of flooding and exorbitant

 insurance premiums. 

UKIP will promote evidence-based environmental 
schemes, and safeguard protection for Britain's 
wildlife, nature reserves, areas of outstanding 
natural beauty, countryside, and coastlines in a 

new Environmental Protection Act, prioritising 
policies to protect our precious countryside for 
future generations. 

PROTECTING OUR ANCIENT WOODLANDS 

Current legislation does not go far enough in 
protecting natural woodland habitats. We will 
amend the National Planning Policy Framework 
(NPPF) to give ancient woodlands &bquo;wholly 
exceptional&equo; status, putting them on a par with 
listed buildings, registered parks and gardens, and 
World Heritage Sites. 

Major infrastructure projects will be required 
to give much more respect to irreplaceable 

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Protecting our Environment 

natural habitats. HS2 is a 
prime example of this: we WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 


will scrap HS2 and ensure no 
infrastructure project will ever 
again be allowed permission 
to wreak such catastrophic 
environmental damage. 

CREATING SMALL 
GREEN SPACES 

UKIP will amend planning 
legislation to promote inclusion 
of trees and open space into 
new developments. The need 
to build new homes must be 
countered by the human need 
to breathe in open, green 
spaces. We will also require new 
developments to use permeable 
or porous surfacing materials 
for single-storey, ground level 
domestic car parking and front 
gardens, so rainwater can drain 
away to help prevent flooding. 
Figures analysed by the RAC 
Foundation show some seven 
million front gardens now 
contain concrete and cars rather 
than flowers and grass, a total 

&bull; 
Prioritise brownfield 
rather than greenfield or 
agricultural land for new 
housing 
&bull; 
Support farming and 
wildlife though grant 
schemes prioritising the 
preservation of natural 
habitats 
&bull; 
Match fund grants made 
by local authorities for 
space roughly equivalent to 100 
Hyde Parks or 72 Olympic Parks. 

GENERAL ELECTION DAY IS 
WORLD OCEANS DAY 

32 million single-use plastic 
bottles are used every day in 
the UK. 16 million go directly to 
landfill or end up as litter. The 
Marine Conservation Society 
estimates around 160 plastic 
bottles per mile are scattered 

rural capital projects 
which enhance the 
local environment or 
help recovery from 
environmental disasters 

&bull; 
Protect dolphins by 
banning the use of pair 
trawling for sea bass 
&bull; 
Offer local referenda 
to overturn unpopular 
development approvals 
on our beaches. After years of 
sunlight and pounding waves, 
they break down into micro-
plastics which are ingested by 
plankton, shellfish, shrimp, fish, 
birds, turtles, other sea animals 
and ultimately humans. 

We will investigate the 
practicality of introducing a 
deposit scheme on plastic 
drinks bottles to encourage 
recycling. 


"After Britain leaves 

the European Union, 

UKIP will review all EU 
environment legislation. 


We will review all current 

EU environmental rules, 

keeping those which 
have enhanced our 
environment, such as 
improving the cleanliness 
of our seas and beaches, 

and amend or repeal 

legislation which can 
be shown to have had a 
detrimental effect". 


Dr Julia Reid MEP, 

Environment 
Spokeswoman 


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Food Production and AnimalWelfare 


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When we leave the EU, we will leave the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 

and regain the power to prioritise our own farming objectives, boost our own 
food security, reform our attitude to farming, animal welfare and wildlife 
management, and reinvigorate our rural economy. 

Farming, rural industries and rural skills 
have always been fundamental to 
our economy, our well-being, and our 
relationship with our countryside. Brexit 


offers us the chance to restore our seas, 

rivers, coasts, farmland, and uplands, 
and address the catastrophic collapse 
in quality habitat and wildlife species in 
our country, and the loss of the specialist 
craft trades and skills we need to 
manage them. 


Stuart Agnew MEP, 


Agriculture Spokesman 


Naturally, farmers will be nervous about what 
might replace the CAP and the subsidy system 
they have become used to over forty years or so. 
However, UKIP will continue to make available to 
the agriculture sector funds that would normally 
be paid to them via Brussels. We will introduce a 
UK Single Farm Payment (SFP) that operates in a 
similar way to the present EU system. 

The major difference will be that UKIP's SFP will be 
more ethical. It will end EU discrimination in favour 
of larger, intensive farms, and support smaller 
enterprises. Subsidies will be capped at &pound;120,000 
per year and, to make sure payments reach 
farmers, not just wealthy landowners, we will pay 
only those who actually farm the land. 

Anti-Microbial Resistance is a problem for society 
as a whole. UKIP will consider transferring some 
support to those livestock producers who commit 
to farming without antibiotics. 

To qualify for subsidies, land must be used 
for genuine agricultural purposes and meet 
Entry Level Stewardship conditions (2013 
rules), meaning it must be managed to certain 
environmental standards. Organic farms will be 
paid 25 per cent more, and additional support will 
be given to hill farmers. There will be no set-aside, 
cropping or rotation restrictions. 

We think the British public will prefer and support 
UKIP's approach. 

ANIMAL WELFARE 

Only when we have left the EU can we regain 
control of animal health and welfare issues. 
Currently, EU law prevents us from banning 
live exports for slaughter, and prevents us from 
labelling food that has been ritually killed as halal 

Food Production and AnimalWelfare 


or shechita. UKIP campaigns against the EU's 
stance on both. 

It is worth noting that should Britain stay in 
the single market, we would still not be able to 
prevent the export and import of live animals 
destined for the meat trade and end the 
unnecessary suffering this causes. 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 


&bull; 
Ban the export of animals for fattening 
and slaughter 
&bull; 
Tightly regulate animal testing, and 
continually challenge companies 
concerned regarding its necessity 
&bull; 
Install CCTV in every abattoir and 
deal severely with any animal welfare 
contraventions 
&bull; 
Forbid Jewish and Muslim methods 
of slaughter being carried out by 
unqualified individuals in unregulated 
premises, and deal severely with such 
transgressions 

&bull; 
Insist all meat labelling identifies the 
method of slaughter 
&bull; 
Triple the maximum jail sentences for 
animal cruelty 
&bull; 
Impose lifetime bans on owning and/or 
looking after animals on any individual 
or company convicted of animal cruelty 
&bull; 
Keep the ban on animal testing for cosmetics. 
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Our Future Energy Security 


Brexit offers the perfect opportunity to review energy policy, prioritising 
lower prices and more secure supplies. There is one major problem: 
a lack of MPs in Westminster who recognise the potential of a rational 
energy policy, and who are committed to delivering it. 



UKIP has a clear commitment to secure, 

affordable energy for everyone. We will 

repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act, the 
most expensive piece of legislation in 
history. This will cut the cost of energy 
in our homes and encourage energy-
intensive businesses that are failing 


because of flawed energy policies. 

Roger Helmer MEP, 

Energy Spokesman 

Every political party except UKIP has thrown

 its weight behind the 2008 Climate Change 
Act. Set to cost us an eye-watering &pound;319 billion 
by 2030, this Act has no basis in science, and 
its aim of cutting greenhouse gases by 
80 per cent by 2050 is unachievable. It is a 
textbook exercise in legislative folly, brought 
about by nothing more than a competitive cross-
party &bquo;dash for green.&equo; 

While our major global competitors in the USA, 
China and India are switching to low-cost fossil 
fuels, this Act forces us to close perfectly good 
coal-fired power stations to meet unattainable 
targets for renewable capacity. If we carry on like 
this, the lights are likely to go out. 

UKIP will repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act 
and support a diverse energy market based on 
coal, nuclear, shale gas, conventional gas, oil, 
solar and hydro, as well as other renewables 
when they can be delivered at competitive 
prices. We will also withdraw from the Paris 
climate agreement and the EU Emissions 
Trading Scheme, to enhance our industrial 
competitiveness. 

CUTTING DOMESTIC ENERGY PRICES 

According to government figures, 2.3 million 
households are living in fuel poverty, meaning 
they spend more than 10per cent of their total 
income to heat their homes to an adequate 
standard of warmth. 

In addition to removing VAT from domestic 
fuel and scrapping &bquo;green&equo; levies to reduce 
household bills by an average of &pound;170, we will 
review the ownership and profits of British 
utilities and the impact on consumers of 
steadily rising prices. We will not hesitate to 
table legislation to address any excesses 
we uncover. 

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Our Future Energy Security 


CUTTING THE COST OF 
INTENSIVE ENERGY USE 

Repealing the Climate Change 
Act and leaving the EU means 
we can also reduce high 
commercial energy prices 
and prevent energy-intensive 
businesses from being driven 
offshore. Problems in the 
steel industry have been 
well publicised, but similar 
issues apply to aluminium, 
chemicals, fertilisers, glass, 
ceramics and petroleum 
refining. Such companies may 
move to countries with lower 
environmental standards, and 
increase emissions, thereby 
rendering the 2008 Act even 
more futile. 

Energy policies pursued by 
Labour and the Tories are 
arguably increasing global 
emissions and causing Britain 
to lose jobs and investment. 
They have created a lose-lose 
situation, but only UKIP is 
awake to the problem. 

INVESTING IN SHALE GAS 

British demand for energy 
already exceeds our home-
produced supply and unless we 
reduce this deficit, we will be 
importing more and more energy. 
This risks both our energy and 
pur economic security: bills will 
have to be paid for in foreign 
currency over which we have 
no control, and fossil fuel cost 

WE STAND BY OUR 2015 MANIFESTO PLEDGES TO: 

&bull; 
Prevent energy companies charging extra for customers who 
use pre-payment meters, who do not pay by direct debit, or 
who require paper billing 
&bull; 
Remove taxpayer-funded subsidies from unprofitable 
wind and solar schemes as soon as contractual 
arrangements expire. 
and distribution can be severely 
affected by international conflict. 
It would be foolhardy not to 
maximise home produced 
energy and this is why UKIP will 
invest in shale gas exploration. If 
&bquo;fracking&equo; is viable in Britain, we 
will have tapped into a source of 
energy that is cost-effective and 
delivers domestic fuel security 
and stability. 

Careful utilisation of this method 
of gas extraction has the potential 
to create jobs, improve our 
industrial competitiveness and 
boost our economy. This makes 
it too great an opportunity to 
ignore. By any measure, shale gas 
extraction is far safer and cleaner 
than coal, on which Britain's 
Industrial Revolution was based. 

UKIP will not, however, 
allow drilling for shale in our 
national parks or other areas 
of outstanding natural beauty. 
The Conservatives may be 
prepared to do this, but we are 
not. We will always respect 
local environmental issues. 

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Real Democracy 


UKIP's fundamental belief in radical democracy marks us out from the 
other parties. We want real devolution, with an English Parliament. We 
will abolish the House of Lords, hold binding referenda on the issues that 
matter most to people, and introduce a fairer voting system. 


There is a growing disconnect between 
people and politicians. People feel their 
voice isn't heard, and that their vote 
doesn't change anything. UKIP stands for 

a fundamentally different kind of politics 

that puts power back in the hands of the 
British people. Leaving the European 

Union is the first step on that road. 

Jonathan Arnott MEP, 

Constitutional Affairs Spokesman 

The fabric of the historic Palace of Westminster 
is in desperate need of restoration, but 
perhaps it is not just the building itself 
that is falling apart. Are the decaying walls 
symptomatic of what is happening inside the 
mother of parliaments? 

Government has become bloated and 
unmanageable. Politics is corrupted by 
self-interest and big business. An unaccountable 
elite revels in mutual back-scratching and 
cronyism. If the best interests of the people of this 
country are to be well served, our current political 
system needs urgent reform. 

UKIP believes it is time to make our nation truly 
democratic, and this is how we will do it. 

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION 

All votes should matter, so we will introduce a 
voting system that genuinely reflects the will of 
the people as a whole. In the 2015 general 
election, UKIP got 12.6 per cent of the vote but 
only one seat, while the SNP won just 4.7 percent 
of the national vote but took 56 seats. The 
current First Past the Post (FPTP) system we use 
for electing MPs to our national parliament is 
bad for voters, bad for government, and bad for 
democracy. 

UKIP wants a fairer, more proportional voting 
system that makes seats match votes, and 
ends the inbuilt advantage the establishment 
parties have over smaller parties. A proportional 
electoral system that delivers a parliament 
representative of the number of votes cast, 
while retaining a constituency link, is one we 
strongly advocate. 

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Real Democracy 

SCRAP POSTAL VOTING 
ON DEMAND 

Originally intended to increase 
voter turnout and enhance 
democracy, postal voting has 
had the opposite effect, fuelling 
"massive, systematic and 
organised fraud" that would 
"disgrace a banana republic," 
according to England and Wales's 
senior and most experienced 
Election Commissioner. UKIP will 
reserve postal votes only for those 
who can show a genuine need. 
Otherwise, voting must be done 
at polling stations. 

ABOLISH THE 
HOUSE OF LORDS 

It is time for the House of 
Lords to go. Attempts at 
reform have proved counterproductive. 
The House of 
Lords Act 1999 replaced the 
majority of hereditary peers 
with appointees, which only 
increased the Prime Minister's 
ability to put cronies into 
the upper chamber. The 
House of Lords is now 
stuffed with party donors 
and fundraisers, ex-MPs, and 
favoured former employees. 

Stuffed is the right word: the 
House of Lords is the second 
biggest legislature in the world, 
after the Chinese National 
People's Congress. The average 
cost of each peer is &pound;115,000 
per year. 

A FAIR DEAL FOR 
ALL FOUR NATIONS 

The public widely regards 
the United Kingdom's 
current devolutionary system 
as fundamentally unfair, 
particularly to the English. UKIP 
will put England, Scotland, 

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Real Democracy 

Wales and Northern Ireland on the same footing 
by instituting a new English Parliament. It will sit in 
the chamber vacated by the House of Lords, have 
its own First Minister, and its 375 members will 
be elected under the Additional Member system 
of proportional representation, one or more from 
each traditional county or large city and 125 
top-up seats. 

All four nations will have broadly similar devolved 
powers and none will have power over matters 
affecting the whole of the UK, such as foreign policy, 
defence of the realm, or constitutional matters. 

A SMALLER HOUSE OF COMMONS 

Our national parliament will be given two primary 
areas of responsibility: to act as an oversight body 
for the regional Parliaments and Assemblies, and 
to deal with all matters not devolved to them. The 
size of the House of Commons will be halved to 
325 directly elected members from across the four 
nations of the United Kingdom, according to a 
system of proportional representation. 

These changes will reduce the number of 
politicians eligible to sit in the legislature from 
1475 to 700, a net reduction of 775. 

THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE 

If 10,000 people sign an approved parliamentary 
petition, the government must respond. If over 
100,000 people sign it, the petition must be 
debated in parliament. However, this is not real 
democracy. Responses to petitions are often 
cursory, sometimes derisory, and debates rarely 
take place in the House of Commons chamber, so 
are usually badly attended and easily dismissed. 

We will pass legislation allowing citizens to 
influence our legislature directly, by giving 
them the power to initiate binding referenda on 
the issues of most importance to them. Every 
two years, a national referendum will be held 
on the issues gaining the highest numbers of 
signatures on approved petitions. The 
outcome of these referenda would be 
legally binding and included in the 
Queen's Speech. 

UKIP will lead the way in saving the Union 
and ending friction in the current devolution 
settlement. Our policies will end the need for 
tactical voting, which undermines democracy 
and freedom of political choice, cut the cost 
and size of government, and give people a real 
say in how they are governed. 

UKIP is the real party for the people. 


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Keeping it Local 


UKIP believes in localism, the kind that puts real power into the hands 
of the people. Our councillors put party politics last, and believe in 
rolling up their sleeves and getting the job done. 


When it comes to key local issues such as 
out-of-town supermarkets, incinerators, and major 
housing developments, UKIP believes in holding 
binding local referenda. Why should politicians 
and planning authorities have the final say? 

UKIP is the only party to operate a &bquo;no whip&equo; 
system, so our councillors can always vote in the 
best interests of residents in their wards, because 
they are not bound by party politics. 

We oppose the &bquo;cabinet&equo; system of local 
governance, which puts too much power in 
the hands of too few people. We advocate a 
committee system, which brings more openness 
and transparency, and facilitates cross-party 
collaborative working. 

Collecting rubbish bins promptly and regularly, 
removing fly-tips, filling potholes, fixing broken or dim 
streetlights, providing enough parking, and keeping 
parks and libraries open: these services should be 
running smoothly before councillors even think about 

Councillors exist to serve their 

spending money on the next local vanity project. 

communities, and one of the best ways 

to do that is by offering them a say in 
UKIP believes in keeping Council Tax as low as 
possible. We seek to cut excessive allowances 

what happens on their doorstep, through 

for councillors, executive pay and bonuses, keep 
the use of binding referenda. This will advertising and promotion budgets to a minimum, 
reinvigorate local politics, and shape build partnerships with neighbouring councils 
to reduce costs, and abolish non-essential jobs 

our neighbourhoods to the benefit of 

and red tape. UKIP will end the use of council 
everyone, not just powerful developers, procurement cards, which operate like credit 
or the most determined lobbyist. cards, encouraging over-spending and waste. Staff 
should stick within agreed budgets. 

UKIP will review the many statutory duties placed on 
local government, to assess whether the cost burden 

Peter Reeve MBE, 

Local Government Spokesman 

on councils and taxpayers can be reduced. Councils 
should only be doing what they do best, not what 
national government wants to wash its hands of. 

UKIP: the party with local, common sense, 
cost-cutting policies for local government. 

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UKIP's Five Year Fiscal Plan 


All figures in &pound;bn 

PHASED BUDGET CHANGES 2017-2022 

BUDGETARY SAVINGS 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 
Net EU contributions 8.30 8.70 9.30 
Overseas Aid phased down to 0.2% of GNI 6.09 9.43 10.84 11.26 11.70 
HS2 cancellation 1.38 3.86 4.76 5.45 5.55 
DECC budget cuts (excluding levies) 0.52 1.06 1.08 1.08 1.10 
NHS medical insurance recovery from migrants 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 
and visitors ineligible for free treatment 
Barnett Formula replaced with needs based 1.50 3.00 4.50 5.50 6.50 
allocation of spending 
Total savings 9.99 17.95 30.18 32.79 35.05 

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TAX AND EXPENDITURE 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 TAX AND EXPENDITURE 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 
Income Tax Personal Allowance &pound;13,500 and 
Higher Rate Threshold &pound;55,000 by 2021-22 
NHS provision 


Social Care provision 
Carers Allowance increased to level of Job 
Seekers Allowance 


Bedroom Tax abolished 


Inheritance Tax Threshold Increased to &pound;500,000, 
transferable (&pound; 1 million per couple) 
Increase Armed Services personnel by 20,000 


over 5 years 
Veterans Administration 
Increase in Police, Prison Officers and Border 


Force Staff (includes ex- service personnel) 


Higher education tuition fees abated after 5 years 
for STEM students 
Higher education maintenance grants reinstated 
Hospital car parking fees abolished 
National referenda 
Remove VAT from domestic fuel and hot takeaway food 
Additional investment in Northern England east to 


west rail projects 


Business Rates cut - 20% relief on premises with a 
rateable value up to &pound;50,000 
Provision for other policy items 
Contingency 


Total spending 

2.00 
1.20 

0.50 
0.93 

0.20 
0.12 
0.60 

1.86 
1.30 
0.21 

1.10 

0.89 
0.60 

11.51 

1.57 

3.00 
1.45 
0.41 

0.50 
0.99 

0.40 

0.32 
1.40 

1.91 

1.60 
0.21 
0.04 
1.75 
0.60 

1.24 

0.70 

18.09 

3.15 3.86 5.43 
5.00 8.00 9.00 
1.65 1.75 2.00 
0.42 0.42 0.42 
0.50 0.50 0.50 
0.86 0.76 0.77 
0.60 0.80 1.00 
0.35 0.35 0.44 
2.10 2.10 2.10 
2.01 2.04 2.08 
1.65 1.70 1.75 
0.22 0.22 0.23 
0.04 0.04 0.04 
1.78 1.80 1.83 
1.40 1.80 2.20 
1.29 1.32 1.35 
0.80 1.00 1.20 
1.00 1.00 1.00 
24.82 29.46 33.34 

Net budgetary impact -1.52 - 0.14 5.36 3.33 1.71 

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