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Raise the minimum sentence for hit-and-run crimes to two years imprisonment

Change the burden of proof in the Family Courts

Ban plea bargains in domestic violence cases if perpetrator has prior conviction

Replace life sentences with whole life terms for the most serious offenders

Review and reform Cafcass to address systemic failings and protect families

Repeal UK Laws Restricting Speech & Pass 'Free Speech Act' like US 1st Amendment

Enshrine the right for citizens to live offline in UK law

Fund stab vests as standard PPE for all prison officers

Increase the maximum sentence for coercive control to 10 years

Chemical castration for all those convicted of child sexual abuse

Hold a public inquiry into the work of the Family Courts

Stop criminalisation of parents who take children abroad due to domestic abuse

Chemical castration for all rapists and sexual abuse offenders

Stop Child Maintenance if parents are denied access to their children

Require lie detector tests for victims and people accused of sexual offences

Don't reduce the number of trials by jury

Fund Child Contact Centre visits for parents

Allow conjugal visits with spouses for prisoners incarcerated for 3+ years

Increase domestic violence maximum sentences and penalties & reform bail laws

Capital punishment for those convicted of terrorism, murder or intentional harm

Review the family court system for removing children from their guardian

Reintroduce the death penalty for murder

Fund extensive support for victims of grooming gangs

Amend divorce law to protect survivors of spousal sexual abuse

Create a formal appeal process for Coroners’ inquests

Keep Sex Offenders on license and the register for life

Allow sentence reductions for rehabilitated Extended Determinate prisoners -EDS-

Compulsory immediate prison sentences for people convicted of rape

Automatic Deputyship to parents once child with disabilities turns 18

Increase funding for mediation and arbitration in family courts

Review laws allowing perpetrators of domestic abuse legal access to children

Child against parent violence to be recognised as domestic abuse & more support

Hold a referendum on planned changes to trial by jury

Require & fund the assignment of a caseworker to every domestic abuse victim

Withdraw from jurisdiction of European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)

Enforce Contact Within 30 Days, Outlaw Parental Alienation, fast track hearings

Revoke Parental Responsibility & Rights from Sexually Abusive Parents

Make it a criminal offence to enter a domestic dwelling without permission

Review timing of child contact centre referrals at family court

Review funding for our police services

Make it illegal for a child to be left home alone before a specific age

Resentence IPP prisoners; end indefinite licence and limit recall

Amend Prison Rules to give a statutory minimum of 2 hours daily out-of-cell time

Prevent Sex Offenders from Applying for Removal from the Sex Offenders Register

Review evidential threshold in emotional and financial domestic abuse cases

Cap cost of prison phone calls to 5p per minute & free weekly allowance

Include asexuality as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010

Ban the use of therapy notes of rape survivors in court proceedings

Introduce whole life tariffs for under 18s who commit murder

Automatic 50/50 custody for separated parents without a criminal conviction