Stated position 06 of 10

Crime and public safety

The law-and-order objective proposes substantial changes to policing, sentencing and counter-extremism powers. Crime claims are among the easiest to test: the ONS publishes both survey-based and police-recorded figures every quarter.

Primary sourceThe policy paper

Attribution matters: this page summarises the Restore Britain policy paper titled “Make Britain Safe Again”, dated 13 February 2026. The headline wording and framing are the party’s own; the summary below reports the published position and does not ask the reader to accept its diagnosis, evidence or remedy without checking the sources.

What the paper publishes

The proposals, in summary.

Condensed from the policy paper. Wording in quotation marks is the paper’s own; everything else is this site’s plain-English summary of it.

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  • Widespread use of stop and search, paired with strict sentencing for knife possession.
  • A binding referendum on restoring capital punishment for the most serious crimes.
  • Legalise pepper spray for self-defence, with women's safety given as the rationale.
  • A national strategy against organised sexual-exploitation gangs, and mandatory CCTV in taxis and private-hire vehicles.
  • Close mosques found to preach extremist doctrine, proscribe extremist organisations, and strip citizenship from dual-national extremists.
  • Investigate food delivery platforms over illegal migrant working.
The paper in full

The complete text, as published.

Reproduced verbatim from the Restore Britain policy paper dated 13 February 2026 so the position can be read whole, not just in summary. Every claim, figure and turn of phrase below is the party’s own; only the formatting has been simplified.

Original pagerestorebritain.org.uk

Make Britain Safe Again.

No-nonsense policing that does what it needs to do.

Widespread stop and search back.

Accusations of racism will stop nothing, up to and including strict sentences for anyone caught carrying a knife.

Hold a Binding Referendum on Restoring the Death Penalty.

Axel Rudakubana, the Southport murderer, and Hashem Abedi, responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, have both assaulted prison officers while behind bars.

A considerable majority of the country supports the death penalty for certain crimes, not least because a prison cell for a murderer costs us over £55,000 per year.

It is just to execute those guilty of the most heinous crimes. Exceptional circumstances demand exceptional measures.

The British people must be given a say.

Legalise Pepper Spray.

British women face an increasing threat of physical and sexual violence, primarily due to mass legal and illegal immigration.

Police forces seem either unable or unwilling to uphold the law and protect those most vulnerable from the most heinous crimes. As such, women must have the ability to adequately defend themselves.

The right to self-defence must not be infringed. Women should be permitted to carry and use pepper spray – a tool used by the police themselves – to defend against attackers.

Those who care for the defence of innocent life and the state of the law deserve every possible advantage against criminals who care for neither.

Crush the Rape Gangs.

We would embark on a national strategy, working from the findings of our rape gang inquiry, to tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture, and murder.

Mandate CCTV in Taxis.

Since at least the early 1990s, evidence shows that taxis and private hire vehicles have been used by foreign criminal gangs for drug trafficking, money laundering, and the sexual exploitation of young girls.

Mandatory CCTV in every taxi, funded by councils, must be implemented to deter this type of behaviour.

Hired transport should be a place of safety – but according to research by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, regulatory loopholes have allowed hundreds of individuals with criminal convictions to acquire licenses.

Women across the country report inappropriate conduct by taxi and PHV drivers.

Ban Islamist Hate-preaching.

Any mosque found to be preaching extreme doctrine must be shut down.

Hateful Islamist organisations must be identified and proscribed, and deprived of any taxpayer funding.

Gulf states such as the UAE warn that Britain has become a breeding ground for Islamic extremism. This poses an immediate threat to national security, and radicalisation must be cut off at source.

Pass Shamima’s Law, revoking right to remain and stripping citizenship from dual-national Islamic extremists. Ban entry of foreign hate preachers, and deport those who are already here.

Investigate Food Delivery Companies.

The “gig economy” – and food delivery platforms in particular – has become a major pull factor for illegal migration to the United Kingdom. This is an internationally recognised problem – even Emmanuel Macron commented on it during negotiations with the British Government over illegal migration.

An investigation by The Telegraph revealed that illegal migrants housed in Home Office hotels are working illegally as bike couriers for Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats, making up to £500 a week. Many are banned from working but use rented or fake courier accounts, paying up to £100 a week on the black market, while sharing illegal e-bikes to deliver food. This illegal work is used to repay debts to people smugglers, with money wired abroad to cover the cost of small boat crossings. Smugglers openly advertise Britain as the easiest place to earn money illegally.

These companies appear to benefit from this arrangement. Uber Eats, for example, has admitted that a Government crackdown on illegal workers will drive up the cost of takeaways

This cannot continue. Companies operating in this grey area of the economy must be held to account for their role in encouraging illegal migration by enabling those here illegally to work. A full investigation must be launched, and if it is proven that these firms have knowingly profited from illegal labour, criminal charges must follow. If this puts them out of business, so be it.

The stated diagnosis

The problem as the party frames it.

The paper attributes rising physical and sexual violence to immigration and argues that police are unable or unwilling to enforce the law.

Both halves of that diagnosis are checkable: the Crime Survey for England and Wales measures long-run victimisation trends independently of police recording, and this site's safety and justice page collects the official statistics on group-based child sexual exploitation.

How to test this position

  1. 1
    Compare the crime data

    Does the claimed trend appear in the Crime Survey, in police-recorded crime, or in neither? The two series often move differently, and the difference matters.

  2. 2
    Read the legal barriers

    Capital punishment is barred by Protocol 13 of the ECHR, which the UK has ratified. What does the paper say about that instrument?

  3. 3
    Check the evidence base

    What does published Home Office research show about the effect of stop-and-search volumes on violent crime?

  4. 4
    Track the record

    Compare with Mr Lowe's Commons questions and votes on policing and sentencing.

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