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Cut income tax
Reform the NHS
Reduce welfare spending
Shut down quangos - public bodies operating at arms-length from the government, such as health boards
Make Scotland the most successful part of the UK

Align Scotland's income tax system with the UK's - meaning it would be reduced from six bands to three
Cut rates by up to 3p below levels south of the border
Immediately cancel planned increase in council tax

Form a department of government efficiency to "cut waste and duplication"
Re-allocate £1bn currently spent on net zero projects and £6.5bn spent on 132 quangos to fund tax cuts
Phase out the land and buildings transaction tax - Scotland's equivalent of stamp duty, paid when buying property or land over a certain value - and non-domestic rates - known as business rates.
Replace them with an annual property tax, the revenues of which are to be handed directly to local authorities
Review statutory obligations placed on councils by Scottish government
Review the number of civil servants and limit opportunities to work from home
Cut social security spending and impose "rigorous face-to-face assessments of claimants"

NHS to remain free at the point of need and fully funded by general taxation
Establish a Scottish Healthcare Reform Commission
Consider "creative" solutions to tackled delayed discharge from hospitals, social care reform, improved prevention strategies, expanded community healthcare and the adoption of the NHS England app in Scotland

Immigrants who adopt Scottish "values" - which the manifesto describes as being "generous, kind, amusing, hard-working, law-abiding and fair-minded" - are to be welcomed
Restoring a housing rule that meant local authorities could refer homeless applicants to other council areas if they were deemed not to have a connection to the area
Scrap Glasgow's status as Scotland's main dispersal city for successful asylum seekers

Reduce number of seats at Holyrood from 73 to 57
Review devolved powers every 10 years
Impose compulsory physical attendance and voting at Scottish Parliament
Enact a recall bill allowing constituents to effectively sack their representatives
End lengthy public inquiries "which transfer taxpayers' money to lawyers"

Introduce a rent-to-buy model for young people, first-time buyers and working families
Build 15,000 new homes per year over the next five years
Allow local authorities to build affordable housing on town centre brownfield sites for local working families
Build a sustained supply of social housing, owned by local authorities
Repeal regulations for all new tenancies while keeping terms of existing tenancies unchanged

Impose harsher jail sentences for repeat offenders, increase prison capacity and end early release programmes designed to cut the inmate population
Tackle the "shoplifting epidemic"
Scrap hate crime legislation introduced in 2024
Immediately look to increase police pay
Abolish Scottish Sentencing Council in favour of direct oversight of sentencing by ministers

Abolish Education Scotland and return responsibility for education to the Scottish government
Reform Curriculum for Excellence
Ban mobile phones in schools
Use exclusion as an "essential tool" to maintain discipline in the classroom
Allow secondary schools to apply for the self-governance model used by Jordanhill College in Glasgow
Review university funding to "ensure degrees are meaningful, value-for-money and grounded in genuine academic merit"

Scrap all net-zero subsidies - which can come in the form of grants and interest-free loans - to homeowners, businesses and communities for projects such as energy efficiency and decarbonisation
Scrap targets to cut fossil fuel emissions and arms-length public bodies involved in net-zero policy
"Rehabilitate" the North Sea oil and gas industry to make it Scotland's "primary energy system", as well as ending government opposition to new nuclear power stations in Scotland
The manifesto claims "using our own natural resources again will reduce household bills immediately"
Simplify the planning system to fast-track permissions for hydro, geothermal, open-cast coal mining and electrical network infrastructure on brownfield or industrial sites

Fix potholes and abolish low-emission zones
Create a 10-year rolling ferry renewal programme and harbour upgrades
Ease congestion and improve efficiency of roadworks by adopting lane rental schemes to charge utility companies and contractors for road space during busy times
Support the Clyde Metro and Glasgow Airport link

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