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James Yucel is Head of Campaigns at Onward & Director of Conservative YIMBY
Britain has drifted: flat productivity, uncompetitive energy, a jammed planning system, and record migration without enforcement.
The New Centre Right (NCR) offers operational conservatism and its principles are practical. Use active statecraft to clear bottlenecks and judge by outcomes. Produce more at home in energy, industry, and housing. Spread capital and security. Run on metrics, publish dashboards, set quarterly targets, name a single owner, time-limit decisions, escalate blockages, and fund UK content and export potential. If it is not measurable by Day 100, it is out.
1) Borders & Law
Gripping the border starts with sovereignty. Day one, introduce an ECHR (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill to authorise the Article 58 notice and a companion ECHR (Withdrawal) Bill that repeals the HRA at the end of a six-month transition and makes clear that ECtHR judgments and interim measures (Rule 39) have no domestic legal effect thereafter. Publish a transition plan that protects core liberties in UK statute while restoring the state’s ability to detain and remove. Pair law with muscle: a capacity-surge order establishing a standing charter-flights framework, extra detention and removals headroom, and weekly operational stats so the public can see what is happening in real time. Finally, cut the fog around crime with a transparency order that publishes live, local dashboards for knife crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour, backed by hotspot taskforces that can be surged into the worst streets.
The vehicle comprises two short sovereignty bills, supported by targeted statutory instruments and Home Office directions, following the Prosperity Institute Roadmap. Together, these measures explicitly supersede elements of the 2023 framework, parts of which the current Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is already repealing.
By Day 100, Article 58 notice will have been served, removals will be up on the same period last year, small-boat crossings will be on a downward trend, and charge rates in pilot policing hotspots will be higher.
The line is uncomplicated. We will make our laws in Britain and enforce them in Britain. The border will be under control and the public will be protected.
2) Energy: Cheap, Reliable, Domestic
Reindustrialisation needs firm, fairly priced power. Issue a Security of Supply Direction that approves new gas peaker plants immediately, imposes a 12-month fast track for grid connections, and explicitly reverses the current policy by restarting North Sea exploration licensing on a clear annual timetable. Publish a dated nuclear pipeline beyond SZC, setting out sites, commercial operation dates and a bankable financing model. Consolidate existing nuclear delivery teams into a Nuclear Delivery Unit reporting to Great British Energy – Nuclear, with Treasury authority to keep schedules real within existing baselines. Provide a temporary industrial tariff relief package for energy-intensive users, tied to UK investment and jobs rather than blank cheques.
Use a Written Ministerial Statement, Ofgem directions and Finance Bill clauses to get this moving within weeks.
By Day 100, the public can judge progress on three numbers: the average industrial power price spread versus EU peers, the megawatts in the grid queue that now have firm connection dates, and the number of North Sea licences awarded or the consultation launched for the next round.
This is how we will end self-inflicted scarcity and price Britain back into the game.
3) Unlocking the Planning System
We will not fix growth or fairness while planning punishes effort and protects inertia. Pilot a rules-based planning system where compliant schemes get automatic permission. Impose a statutory 12-week Builder’s Remedy with deemed consent so refusal by delay ends. Publish a national pattern book so mansion blocks and mid-rise terraces are by right in places people want to live. Reverse the 2018 NPPF Viability Assessment changes to the previous circular system. Lift the proposed Natural England Veto and nutrient neutrality holds with targeted mitigation. Restore market-based viability by reversing the EUV-plus default. Impose the proposed Grey Belt reforms and abolish all Green Belt protections within walking distance of major transport hubs. Replace Section 106 and CIL with a nationally set flat-rate Infrastructure Levy that captures uplift and applies to permitted-development change of use. End the Soviet-style land grab of no-hope-value CPOs and restore full hope value so owners are properly compensated, investment is protected, and land comes forward through the market, not coercion. Retire Labour’s 50 percent golden rule quotas that kill schemes and let density plus the levy do the work. Reverse Labour’s proposed upward only rent review ban which will inevitably kill high streets and inward investment. Introduce representative planning consultations following the Auckland and Hutt City models. Strip back the Building Safety Regulator to a risk-based regime, re-enable approved inspectors for mid-rise, and time-limit technical gateways.
The vehicle is a Planning Bill and changes to the NPPF, while strengthening National Development Management Policies (NDMPs). This will trail secondary legislation and an MHCLG policy statement that tells inspectors and councils the rules have changed. Building Safety Act amendments refocus the regulator.
Judge us by Day 100 on permissions versus the same period last year, median decision time, homes released from nutrient holds, appeals concluded within eight weeks, BSR gateway approvals inside 12 weeks, and the flat-rate Infrastructure Levy regulations laid.
Politically, this is about siding with the silent majority of Brits who want homes built and not letting a vocal minority of blockers dominate the planning system.
4) Industrial Strategy: Production over Posture
Stop picking headlines and back the functions that compound productivity. Pass a Made in Britain Act to frame a focused push on semiconductors (including compound chips), life sciences, defence manufacturing, chemicals and clean manufacturing. Introduce a UK capability test in public procurement, consistent with GPA rules, that prioritises domestic capacity, security, resilience and skills transfer rather than nationality. Sign regional growth compacts around real clusters, using the Innovation Clusters Map published yesterday as the baseline. Universities and further education providers will build skills pipelines. Business will commit capital. Government will unlock sites and connections. Use fast visas sparingly for genuinely scarce skills while training British workers into those roles. This goes further than the present approach and closes gaps the current government has left open.
The vehicles are a Finance Bill, a Procurement Policy Note under the Procurement Act 2023 and the NPPS 2025, and memoranda of understanding that bind cluster partners to milestones.
By Day 100, publish three numbers: the value and count of procurement lots using the capability test, the private capex announced in priority sectors, and apprenticeship starts in the designated cluster areas.
The line is clear: back what raises productivity across the economy and stop outsourcing our future.
5) Fairness, Ownership and Family
An economy worth having lets people own a stake, raise a family and trust that the state they fund will endure. Birth rates are sliding while pensions and social care costs rise, so we shift from promises to funded ownership and pro-parent policy that is simple and pro-work. Relaunch ISAs so ordinary savers can put more into productive UK assets, with clear risk labels and higher retail access caps. Close the birth gap with targeted, work-with-work support: a Second-Earner Work Allowance to cut effective tax rates for families; a newborn lump-sum “Family Start” grant paid into a child account; flexible childcare credits usable for childminders, kinship care or part-time nursery; and capped, time-limited IVF and infertility relief. Fix cliffs that punish work by integrating Child Benefit withdrawal into PAYE and publishing options to lower effective marginal rates, building on the current £60k–£80k taper. Reward long-termism with capital-gains relief for five-year holds, nudge firms toward employee ownership, and make pensions truly portable as schemes connect to dashboards, with a default UK-growth allocation proposed on an opt-out basis. Start a sustainable settlement for ageing by moving from the triple lock to an earnings-linked uprating with a low-income floor, commencing auto-enrolment to the first pound and for the self-employed, and creating Care ISAs with tax-free withdrawals for social care.
The vehicles are a Finance Bill and DWP and FCA regulations, plus a Pensions, Care and Family Formation Statement to Parliament.
By Day 100, first-time-buyer transactions will be up, net retail flows into UK equities and venture capital will be positive, the Second-Earner Work Allowance will be strong, the pensions dashboards connection timetable will be published with the first wave of scheme connections underway, the consultation on a default UK-growth allocation will be completed and ready to implement, uprating reform and Care ISA draft rules will be laid, and a Family Formation Plan will be published with the credits, grant and IVF relief in force.
This will help the next generation raise a family, earn more, and keep more of it.
A Different Way of Governing
The first 100 days aren’t a magic wand; they’re a forcing device. They tell the system incentives have changed and drift is over. The test isn’t full outcomes by week fourteen, but visible grip and direction – and numbers moving the right way: removals up, crossings down, power prices narrowing, grid connections locked in, permissions rising, private capex committed, first-time buyers returning, families better off for choosing commitment.
The country is tired of reviews and committees.
It wants engineering drawings and a build schedule.
In the first hundred days of an NCR government, that means firm grid connection dates, signed North Sea timetables, permissions moving, removals rising, and policing hotspots with higher charge rates. Britain can still make, build and own; the New Centre Right’s job is to prove it in public, on time and in full.
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