Reform - Birmingham 3rd - 5th September 2026 

Lib Dems – Brighton, Saturday 19th - Tuesday 22nd September 2026.  

Labour - Liverpool, Sunday 27th– Wednesday 30th September 2026  

Conservatives - Birmingham, Sunday 4th– Wednesday 7th October 2026. 

Tackle transport skills shortages, remove barriers to employment and give businesses access to the workforce they require, including a £40 million package to recruit more HGV drivers and improve their welfare, measures to rebuild the maritime skills pipeline and a £10 million Aviation Skills Fund. The focus on recruitment and skills broadly aligns with CIHT’s call for a national transport skills plan, but CIHT’s published position also emphasises workforce planning within infrastructure strategies, technical education, apprenticeships, lifelong learning, professional competence and inclusive recruitment and progression. 

Introduce Road Risk Prevention Orders, modernise drink- and drug-driving enforcement through evidential roadside testing, extend the High-Risk Offender Scheme to drug drivers and introduce a national Drug-Driving Rehabilitation Scheme. These proposals have some broad alignment with CIHT’s support for stronger legislation, enforcement and data-led measures, although CIHT’s published position places these measures within a wider Safe System approach, supported by measurable targets, safer infrastructure, appropriate speed management and coordinated governance. 

Ban new floating bus stops and remove around 100 of the existing locations considered most hazardous, supported by a Community-Led Floating Bus Stop Abolition Fund through which local communities could nominate stops for action. CIHT has highlighted the accessibility and safety concerns associated with some floating bus stop and shared bus stop boarder designs, while supporting meaningful engagement with disabled people, statutory guidance, further research and evidence-led inclusive design rather than a blanket position on every configuration. 

The Conservatives announced plans to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, with responsibilities transferred to Defra, as part of an effort to remove perceived barriers to infrastructure delivery. This approach would require careful consideration against CIHT’s published support for sustainable development, environmental enhancement, climate resilience and infrastructure planning that is consistent with the UK’s net zero commitments. 

The Conservatives would repeal net zero building rules that they argue make homes more difficult and expensive to build. This proposal is not consistent with CIHT’s published support for the statutory net zero target, vision-led planning and the integration of development and transport in ways that reduce emissions, car dependency and transport inequality. 

Halving the Employer National Insurance rate from 15 per cent to 7.5 per cent for employees aged 21 to 24 on earnings up to £50,270, to get young people back into work. 

Replace Section 106 and the Community Infrastructure Levy with a simple and transparent ‘one-stop’ Infrastructure Levy to simplify the planning system. 

Reaffirmed support for a Third Runway at Heathrow Airport. 

Restrict or ban the online sale and import of high-power e-bikes and conversion kits that breach standard EAPC limits and overhaul the legal framework to clearly separate legal active travel from unregistered high-speed vehicles.  

Give police forces updated training to spot, intercept and confiscate illegal e-bikes, and ensure existing dangerous cycling offences are properly enforced.  

Introduce statutory liability requiring delivery platforms to verify riders' vehicles are legal and insured, backed by a nationwide active travel strategy with secure bike infrastructure and dedicated cycle paths.  

Increase it to £15,000, which Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey MP asserted would take around 2 million more people out of income tax and give most taxpayers a £680 tax cut. 

Increase the threshold to £56,000, taking hundreds of thousands of people out of the higher-rate band. 

In the First 100 days of a Reform UK Government, Reform UK would increase the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000. 

Cut the employer NIC rate from 15% to 13.8%, funded by a new Migrant Labour Levy for employers. 

Introduce a Hard Work Bonus, employees earning under £75,000 would pay no tax on overtime worked above a 40-hour week. 

Cut the issuance of student loans by 20%, focusing on degrees with low economic value. 

The Apprenticeship Wage Credit that I announced last month, worth over £4,700 per apprentice per year, and the £2,000 Apprenticeship Retention bonus, a real reward for completing an apprenticeship.