Social Progress Party
Politics to serve all of society, not just the wealthy and powerful.
Our Policies
Listed below are the areas where we have already developed policy positions, and a summary of our key proposals for each, please feel free to select an area to discover more details and additional policies. These proposals reflect the SPP Core Principles as they are applied to discrete and specific areas.
However, please note the following:
These policy positions do not represent a manifesto. They are not commitments to be met within any timescale. They represent an indicative framework that the Social Progress Party wishes to work towards over time. Many of the items listed would be ruinous if introduced overnight, many are unrealistic within current financial structures, some may never be achieved, some may not be ambitious enough. The point is to show the direction in which the party believes UK society would be best served in heading, and to outline our basic principles in a tangible way. The party hopes to provoke debate, to show that there is an alternative to the estranged politics that the UK currently endures, and possibly, one day, to be given the chance to implement at least some of these policies and to restore social progress as the overriding purpose of British politics.
Reshaping the political environment to rebuild trust and maximise democratic impact:
Proportional Representation; reform and modernisation of the Houses of Parliament and the monarchy; protected policy areas; restore EU alignment; increased devolution.
Supporting businesses while protecting workers:
Reduce regulation and levies on small businesses, Introduce an online protection framework; reduce pay gaps; regulate zero-hour contracts; strengthen companies’ accountability to their customers.
Shifting the burden of taxes to those who can better afford it:
Fairly redistribute tax burden; create a National Wealth Fund; reform VAT, IHT, Council Tax, Income Tax & NI; rebalance tax collection & spend towards local control.
Finding the right educational path for all, regardless of personal finances:
Nationalise early childcare; reform VAT status on private schools; restore routes to vocational qualifications; replace Ofsted; no state funded religious schools; abolish league tables.
Treating young people with respect:
Better integrate Youth in society; introduce “younger persons” alcohol option; invest in youth facilities, counselling & mentoring; reduce voting age.
Revitalise the NHS in a modern, ageing society:
Restore front-line funding; means testing on specific treatments; legalise assisted dying.
Reduce harm driven by environmental and 'lifestyle' factors:
Restrictions on vaping; curb emissions; regulate and tax unhealthy food & drink; tighter controls on the pharmaceutical industry and landlords; legalise cannabis edibles.
Better care for the most vulnerable:
Invest in children’s group homes and care; improve elderly care access.
Focus on global and regional stability:
Closer EU alignment; lobby for increased global co-ordination; advocate for peace; increased obligations before committing troops; humanitarian support for natural and man-made disasters.
Tangible action on climate change and pollution:
Flight mileage restrictions; align environment’s interests with shareholders’ in directors’ legal obligations; pollution impact pricing levy; increased renewable energy.
Structural reform to modernise policing:
Consolidate UK police forces and modernise recruitment, training, promotion & delivery; increased scrutiny, pay and support for social workers.
Make justice work for both victims and society:
Prioritise criminal rehabilitation; increased scrutiny, pay and support for parole officers; split CPS in two with a Victims’ Advocate Service and a Public Prosecution Service; speed up the judicial process.
Invest in public housing to reduce homelessness and waiting lists:
End “right to buy”; expand and improve temporary accommodation; greater local consultation and community input to planning.
Safer roads through targeting unsafe drivers:
Raise motorway speed limit; restrict vehicle top speeds; greater focus on dangerous driving; invest in public transport; insurance regulation; new driver probation period.
End the private ownership of utilities:
Nationalise services essential to the security and delivery of national infrastructure.
Treat immigrants fairly and with respect:
Speed up claims processing; clarify safe routes; support the settlement & integration of new arrivals.
Improve access and engagement with the arts:
Improve access to creative careers from all of society; fund and protect developing artists; protect and require neutrality in media.
Increase engagement in sport:
Increase schools’ sports provision; create protected status for "community assets" in sport.
Review of structure, equipment and resources:
Confirm that our Armed Forces and their support structures, facilities and resources are sufficient and appropriate for a modern conflict and likely increasing global conflict due to climate change and overpopulation.