ON THE ECONOMY
* Cut public spending on immigration, asylum, EU membership and foreign aid, which the BNP claim accounts for more than £40bn
* Cut £18bn it says is spent on tackling global warming, which it describes as "unproved science"
* Raise personal tax-free allowance on earnings to £12,500 and inheritance tax threshold to £1m
* Work for reduction in Council Tax through the slashing of all "politically correct council functions" and "diversity" schemes
* Close legal loopholes which allow tax evasion through transfer pricing and the outsourcing of jobs to foreign nations
* Foreign takeovers of significantly-sized UK companies to be judged in the public interest before they can proceed
* Laws to separate High Street banks from the investment banking sector and opposition to privatisation of "natural monopolies" such as Royal Mail
* Investigate viability of voluntary local currencies and support national network of autonomous local credit unions
ON EUROPE, CRIME AND IMMIGRATION
* Halt immigration - in particular from Muslim countries - and deport illegal immigrants. Allow legally settled and law-abiding minorities to remain but review citizenship grants awarded since 1997
* Deport foreigners convicted of crimes in Britain, regardless of immigration status, ban the burka and building of mosques. Deport radical Islamist preachers
* Increase UK Border Agency funding, withdraw from EU, repeal Race Relations Act and scrap Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Scrap ID cards
* Review the Police and Criminal Evidence Act to remove unnecessary bureaucracy from police duties
* Reintroduce capital punishment for drug dealers, child murderers, multiple murderers, murderers of policemen on duty and terrorists
* Reintroduce right of householders to defend themselves and their property, "using whatever means they deem necessary"
* Establish penal station for "extremely dangerous/violent repeat criminals", including rapists, on the British island of South Georgia
ON SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
* "British concepts" of civility and courteousness to be taught in schools, along with British history and English, Irish, Scots and Welsh culture and traditions
* Reverse budget cuts on education and bring back "traditional syllabi and teaching methods", along with streaming and grammar schools
* Bring back academic and sporting competition at all levels of education
* Free university education to students who have completed community service
* Rebuild Britain's skills base through subsidies to engineering and science institutions and their students
ON HEALTH
* Reallocate money designated for foreign aid to increase spending on frontline staff, while reducing bureaucracy and restricting managers' pay to £100,000 per year
* Prioritise employment of people at affordable wages, halt recruitment of Third World-origin staff and end "health tourism" in UK
* Cut waiting times and service difficulties by relieving immigration burden upon the NHS
ON WELFARE AND PERSONAL FINANCE
* Halt payment of benefits, and provision of housing, education and pensions to foreigners "who have not paid into the system"
* Education and training to help unemployed back into work - in return for set number of hours work per week
* Those out of work for 18 months or more to participate in local work schemes in return for benefits
* Aim to increase state pension to £150 per week during the parliament, link to earnings and restrict to Britons and those who have "fully paid into the system"
* Reduce annual allowance for tax relief on pension contributions to £75,000
* Convene national conference of employers and workers' representatives to resolve public sector pension difficulties, raising the age of retirement to 68 over "a period of years"
ON POLITICAL REFORM
* Devolve all powers properly capable of exercise to local level, reviving county council government
* Create an English parliament, alongside a pan-British parliament to oversee policy areas currently determined by Westminster - inviting the Irish Republic to join as an equal partner
* Reform the House of Lords to include non-party political experts and individuals chosen for talent and service
* Introduce "citizens' initiative" referendums to force government to adhere to the will of voters on specific subjects
* Bill of Rights guaranteeing basic civil liberties, repeal 1998 Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights
* Restrict use of postal voting to those incapable of getting to polling stations
IN OTHER AREAS
* End involvement of British troops in the Afghanistan conflict, withdraw forces form Germany and stop Britain becoming involved in war with Iran
* Renegotiate UK presence in NATO, raise defence spending by 1% over the rate of inflation for five years
* Ensure National Lottery funding spent on projects enhancing British culture. Introduce formal bank holidays marking patron saints days of all UK nations
* Tax concessions for pubs, lower alcohol tax and supervised smoking rooms in pubs
* Laws to hold journalists and media outlets criminally liable for knowingly publishing falsehoods and media complaints body with power to grant right of reply with equal prominence to defamed people
* Reverse privatisation of railways, invest in 200mph magnetic levitation inter-city rail network
* Reduce fuel prices through tax policy, charge foreign trucks for the right to use Britain's road network
* Develop alternative farming British subsidies to those of the EU, ban genetically modified produce, encourage regeneration of family farms and introduce 200-mile coastal fishing exclusivity zone
* Place local councils under a legal duty to build a number of homes set to a percentage of the waiting list total each year, with "local connection tests" for housing applicants
* Protectionist policy for the local IT industry, nationalise telecoms infrastructure to enable creation of UK-wide not-for-profit 100Mbps broadband service across the country
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