The modern world is faced with challenges that require citizen involvement, global cooperation, and forward-thinking solutions.

Volt UK is committed to addressing these issues head-on, ensuring that the UK plays a leading role on the global stage. Our focus spans from regulating emerging technologies to achieving energy independence and safeguarding the environment, all while fostering human rights and inclusivity.

The UK on the global stage

  • Maintain and strengthen the UK’s role as a bulwark of freedom and democracy, in close cooperation with European and global allies.
  • Unconditionally commit to the Trident nuclear deterrent and long term integration towards a single, shared, nuclear umbrella for Europe.
  • Reaffirm the UK’s unwavering commitment to NATO, ensuring that our defence spending continues to meet or exceed the 2% of GDP benchmark, thereby strengthening our collective security and operational readiness.
  • Strengthen the capabilities of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and National Cyber Force to protect national infrastructure, counter cyber threats, and enhance cooperation with international partners to address current global cybersecurity challenges.
  • Long term integration of the armed forces with other NATO/EU allies to better protect Britain and share procurement costs.
  • Ensure comprehensive support for service members and veterans, including mental health services, housing, career transition programmes, healthcare, education, and employment assistance.
  • Unconditional support for Ukraine until it regains full control over its internationally recognised 1991 borders, including Donbass and Crimea, in accordance with the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Additionally, we pledge to support Ukraine as a long-term ally in peacetime.
  • Side with all civilians in Israel and Palestine, supporting an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and a lasting resolution to the conflict where there is no space for any war crimes committed by either side. Advocate for accountability through the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to ensure justice and uphold international law.

 

Energy Independence and Affordability

  • Fund and support solar and wind energy projects across the UK.
  • Develop initiatives to support renewable local energy production and reduce dependency on imports.
  • Invest in research and development for renewable energy technologies and efficiency improvements.
  • Support projects for building new nuclear reactors that are subject to stringent conditions on safety, waste, and financial transparency.
  • Upgrade the national grid to better handle renewable energy input and improve efficiency.
  • Provide subsidies for businesses and households to adopt renewable energy solutions.
  • Establish a long-term energy strategy that includes strategic reserves and innovative storage solutions.
  • Encourage responsible energy consumption through digital education and incentives.

 

Immigration and Asylum

  • Keep the UK within the European Court of Human Rights.
  • Carry out deportations humanely, focusing on safety rather than political posturing.
  • Promote human rights and solidarity, keeping Britain open and connected to the world.
  • Seek an arrangement with the EU as close as possible to free movement on the path to rejoining the EU.
  • Reform the immigration system to attract the workforce that Britain needs.
  • Allow refugees and asylum seekers to work and integrate as soon as their application is accepted, to avoid pushing them into illegal activities.
  • Rejoin the Dublin Regulation for better coordination with European countries, reforming it to include an effective burden-sharing
    settlement system.

 

Protecting the Environment

  • Abide by the principle that economic growth should not take precedence over the environment and wellbeing.
  • Reinstate EU environmental standards that have been repealed after leaving the EU.
  • Europe-wide, aim to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2030, achieve climate-neutral energy production by 2035, and net climate neutrality by 2040.
  • Implement a Carbon Tax in cooperation with the EU to fund environmental protection and climate adaptation.
  • Promote a circular economy by mandating the production of durable goods that are easy to repair.
  • Assist businesses in transitioning to a circular economy with tax incentives, streamlined regulations, and digital training and assistance.
  • Phase out single-use plastics progressively and consider taxing plastic packaging.
  • Offer incentives for take-back schemes.
  • Invest in environmental research and technologies and ensure proper funding for monitoring air, water, and land quality.
  • Repeal legislation permitting water companies to discharge raw sewage into rivers, and accelerate efforts to clean and restore our rivers and lakes.

 

Governing technology

 

  • Regulate technology advancement to make it serve progress and wellbeing.
  • Invest in local development by enhancing AI education and training programmes to equip people in the UK with the skills needed to innovate and lead in the AI sector.
  • Build on the UK’s established position, and tie closer relations with the EU, to place the UK at the forefront of AI regulation and implementation.
  • Support AI profit taxation in both national and European parliaments, using the revenue to fund social security.