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Every Party's Impact On You
Your income, home and family vs every party's proposals — one form, five answers.
Take-Home Pay Calculator
Your 2026/27 salary after tax, NI, student loan and pension — and what each party would change.
Property Tax Calculator
See how a proportional property tax or scrapping stamp duty could affect you.
Wealth Tax Calculator
Estimate the annual bill under the Greens' 1% / 2% wealth tax.
Capital Gains Calculator
Compare CGT today with the Green and Lib Dem reform plans.
School Fees VAT Calculator
See what scrapping the 20% VAT on private school fees would save.
Family Benefits Calculator
See what scrapping the two-child benefit limit is worth to your family.
Income Tax Calculator
See what Reform's £20,000 tax-free allowance would save you.
Defence Spending Calculator
See how much of your tax is attributed to defence as it rises to 2.7% of GDP.
Council Tax Calculator
Your band, your bill — and how it compares with the tax that could replace it.
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All guides →Latest proposals
42 explainers · 33 calculators · 5 partiesFilter by party or topic. Every item is a proposal (or, where noted, a recent policy) — not a prediction.
Labour
PIP reform: the Timms Review
The July 2026 interim report says PIP "is not working" — an assessment overhaul is coming.
Prosperity 2030: one property tax, one income tax
The UCL blueprint backed by a Burnham adviser: a 1% property tax replacing council tax and stamp duty.
Andy Burnham's property tax
Scrap council tax and stamp duty in England; replace with the Fairer Share 0.48% proportional property tax.
Scrapping the two-child benefit limit
Universal Credit's child element restored for third and subsequent children.
Burnham's "Manchesterism"
Devolution, more public control of transport, water and energy, and business-rate cuts.
The Defence Investment Plan
£298bn over four years, lifting defence to 2.7% of GDP — funded by reallocating budgets.
Labour's NHS 10-Year Plan
The government's plan to shift NHS care from hospitals into local neighbourhood health centres.
The Renters' Rights Act
Abolishing Section 21 'no-fault' evictions and rewriting the rules for England's renters.
Great British Energy
A publicly-owned clean-power company, targeting a zero-carbon grid by 2030.
Border Security Command
A new command to smash small-boat smuggling gangs, after scrapping the Rwanda scheme.
Conservative
Leave the ECHR
Now binding on candidates: from July 2026, would-be Tory MPs must back withdrawal from the Convention.
Abolish stamp duty on main homes
Scrap stamp duty entirely on primary residences, of any value.
Scrap VAT on private school fees
Reverse the 20% VAT Labour added to private school fees in 2025.
The "First Job Bonus"
Redirect young workers' first £5,000 of National Insurance toward a home deposit.
Axe the Carbon Tax
Scrap the UK Emissions Trading Scheme in full to cut costs for British industry.
Triple Lock Plus
A higher, triple-locked tax-free allowance for pensioners so the state pension is never taxed. Free calculator.
A binding immigration cap
A legal, falling annual cap on work and family visas, voted on by Parliament each year.
Green Party
An annual wealth tax
1% a year on wealth above £10m, 2% above £1bn.
Align capital gains tax with income tax
Tax gains at income-tax rates (20/40/45%) instead of today's 18%/24%.
Cut energy bills
Move levies off bills, decouple power from gas, and scale up insulation.
National Insurance on high earners
Charge the full 8% National Insurance rate on earnings above £50,270, not 2%.
Cancel Trident
Don't renew the nuclear deterrent; pursue disarmament and redirect the money.
Liberal Democrats
Capital gains tax reform
Standalone CGT rates (20/40/45%) based only on the gain, with a £5,000 allowance.
Free personal care in England
Free personal care at the point of use, on the Scottish model.
Commercial Landowner Levy
Abolish business rates; tax commercial land value instead.
Reform UK
A £20,000 tax-free allowance
Raise the personal allowance to £20,000 and the 40% threshold to £70,000.
Cut stamp duty for home buyers
No stamp duty below £750,000, then 2% to £1.5m and 4% above.
Cut corporation tax
Cut the main rate from 25% to 20%, then 15%, and abolish IR35.
Scrap net zero
Abolish the net zero target and green subsidies; back oil, gas and nuclear.
Abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain
Replace ILR with a five-year renewable visa and no recourse to benefits.
The "Britannia Card" for non-doms
A £250,000 charge for special non-dom tax status, redistributed to low earners.
Operation Restoring Justice
A five-year programme to detain and deport illegal migrants — and the objections.
Reform: the money
What Reform says it would raise and cut — and where the figures are contested.
Reinstate the two-child benefit cap
Bring back the two-child limit on Universal Credit that the government is scrapping.
Reform's law-and-order plan
40,000 more police, more stop-and-search, mandatory minimums and more prison places.
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