In 2019, 6.1 million people signed a petition to revoke Article 50 & remain in the EU.

It's the largest parliamentary petition in UK history.

A Lib Dem govt would recognise this by revoking Article 50 & retaining our EU membership - allowing us to finally move on from Brexit.

Lib Dems support the right of Gibraltarians to remain in the EU, and will allow EU nationals who have lived in the UK for 5 years or more to stand for office and vote in UK elections and referendums.

Lib Dems will invest £130 billion in infrastructure - for transport, energy, schools, hospitals and homes for all regions of the UK.

They will also introduce Skills Wallets worth £10,000 for every individual to enable lifelong learning and development.

Lib Dems will give LAs and regions more power, introduce £50 billion Regional Rebalancing Programme, invest in the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine, create a local banking sector to help SMEs and upgrade support for the tourist industry.

Lib Dems will convert rail network to ultra-low-emission by 2035, install fibre-optic broadband across the UK - especially in rural areas, build 300,000 homes per year by 2024 (including 100,000 social homes) and create a new Green Investment Bank for zero-carbon initiatives.

Lib Dems will support innovation by increasing spend on R&D to 3% of GDP, introduce a new 2-year visa for students, ensure all homes from 2022 have full connectivity, support new digital start-ups and introduce creative enterprise zones across the UK to grow our cultural output.

Lib Dems will ensure new tech & AI is used ethically by introducing a Code of Ethics and convening a citizens' assembly. The public will share in the profits of tech companies using our data, consumers helped with digital literacy and people affected by automation retrained.

Lib Dems will create a 'start-up allowance' for new businesses, prioritise SMEs in broadband rollout, expand the British Business Bank, provide a framework for social enterprises, offer parental leave & pay to those self-employed, and expand the Future High Streets Fund.

Lib Dems will strengthen worker participation in decision-making, introduce a duty of care in the workplace for the environment & human rights, ensure large companies consider employee welfare, community benefit & ethical practice and require votes on executive pay.

Lib Dems will restore Corporation Tax to 20%, stimulate investment by replacing Business Rates with a Commercial Landowner Levy, take tough action against corporate tax evasion - especially by tech giants & large monopolies - and scrap the Marriage Tax Allowance.

Lib Dems will review the Living Wage, establish a Worker Protection Enforcement Authority, make flexible work available to all, review tax & NI status, set 20% higher minimum wage for zero-hours, allow right to request fixed-hours contract after 12 months and strengthen unions.

Lib Dem Skills Wallet gives you £4K aged 25, £3K aged 40 & another £3K aged 55. Individuals, employers & local gov can make additional contributions. People can choose how & when to spend it & get free careers advice. Lib Dems will also develop National Colleges of expertise.

Lib Dems will use the billions saved by stopping Brexit to invest in services & tackle inequality, properly fund key services, increase local government funding, ensure overall national debt declines, protect the independence of the Bank of England & keep inflation target at 2%.

Lib Dems will introduce a wellbeing budget (following New Zealand) & a Minister for Wellbeing, prioritise spending on access to mental health & other health services, schools to build emotional resilience, tackle loneliness & support vulnerable children & people who are homeless.

Lib Dems will offer free childcare from 9 months, increase funding to cover nursery provision, invest £1 billion per year in Children's Centres, triple the Early Years Premium to £1K, require training programmes for all Early Years settings and introduce 'baby boxes' in England.

Lib Dems will reverse cuts to school funding - meaning 20,000 more teachers & smaller classes, clear backlog of school building repairs, allocate extra cash for Special Education Needs, introduce a 'curriculum for life' - incl. financial literacy, eco-awareness, first aid...

... mental health, sexual consent and LGBT+ education, establish an independent body of education experts, replace SATs with moderated assessments & lighter-touch tests, replace 'league tables' with broader indicators - incl. wellbeing as well as academic attainment...

... replace Ofsted with a HM Inspector of Schools (inspections to take place every 3 years & consider social/emotional development as well as wellbeing), improve vocational education, protect arts & creative subjects and teach critical thinking, verbal reasoning & creativity.

Lib Dems will give LAs power & resources to act as Strategic Education Authorities for their area, create a level playing field by requiring Multi-Academy Trusts to undergo external inspection, allow LAs to open Community Schools - and oppose expansion of grammar schools.

Lib Dems will raise the starting salary for teachers to £30,000 & increase all teachers' pay by at least 3% each year, introduce and fund professional teacher development - rising to 50 hours per year by 2025 and give extra training to teachers at secondary level.

Lib Dems will extend free school meals to all in primary, & all in secondary whose families receive UC, promote breakfast clubs, ensure all teaching staff can identify mental health issues, tackle bullying in schools by promoting pastoral leadership...

... require inclusive, gender-neutral school uniform policies that suit different budgets, challenge gender stereotyping & early sexualisation by promoting positive body image & breaking down outdated perceptions of gender appropriateness - and teach responsible social media use.

Lib Dems will invest £1 billion in FE funding, help those from poorer families by introducing a 'Young People's Premium', raise standards in unis by strengthening the Office for Students, require unis to offer mental health services & introduce a Student Mental Health Charter...

... reinstate maintenance grants, establish a review of HE finance, ensure all unis widen participation by disadvantaged and under-represented groups and require unis to be transparent about selection criteria.

Lib Dems will maintain free access to national museums & galleries, move towards introducing 'safe standing' at football clubs, support anti-racism & anti-homophobia campaigns in sport, protect the independence of the BBC & set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission...

... maintain C4 in public ownership, protect funding & editorial independence of Welsh language broadcasters, protect sports & arts funding via National Lottery and examine funding & planning rules for live music venues & grassroots music sector - protecting venues from closure.

Lib Dems will require all companies to abide by the Paris Agreement on climate change, encourage green investments & create new powers for regulators, establish a Department for Climate Change & Natural Resources and appoint a Cabinet-level Chief Secretary for Sustainability...

... establish Citizens' Climate Assemblies, require all LAs to produce a Zero Carbon Strategy, guarantee an Office of Environmental Protection that is fully independent of government - with powers & resources to enforce compliance with climate & environmental targets...

... increase govt. expenditure on climate objectives to at least 5% within 5 years, support investment & innovation in zero-carbon infrastructure & technologies by creating a Green Investment Bank and implement the UK's G7 pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

Lib Dems will accelerate deployment of renewable power - aiming to reach at least 80% renewable electricity by 2030, expand community & decentralised energy, ban fracking, support investment in cutting-edge energy tech inc. tidal & wave power - providing £12 billion over 5 years.

Lib Dems will cut energy bills, end fuel poverty by 2025, reduce emissions from buildings - inc. free retrofits for low-income homes, new subsidised Energy-Saving Homes scheme & reducing VAT on insulation, empower councils to develop community energy-saving projects...

... require all new homes to be built to zero-carbon standard by 2021 - rising to 'Passivhaus' by 2025, increase minimum efficiency standards for private rents & remove cost cap on improvements and adopt a Zero-Carbon Heat Strategy - inc. reforming the Renewable Heat Incentive.

Lib Dems will reduce emissions from industrial processes by supporting carbon capture & storage, support development of regional industrial clusters for zero-carbon innovation & increase the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, expand the market for green products & services...

... and end support from UK Export Finance for fossil food-related activities. Lib Dems will introduce a Zero-Waste & Resource Efficiency Act inc. banning non-recyclable single-use plastic - aiming for their elimination within 3 years, and ending plastic waste exports by 2030...

... benefitting consumers through better product design for repairability, reuse & recycling - inc. extending EU 'right to repair' legislation (helping small repair businesses & community groups), introducing targets for reducing consumption of natural resources...

... extending deposit return schemes for food & drink bottles & containers, establishing a waste recycling target of 70% for England, extend separate food waste collections to at least 90% of homes by 2024 and strengthen initiatives to reduce packaging and waste sent to landfill.

Lib Dems will introduce a Nature Act & fund £18 billion over 5 years to restore the natural environment & improve water, air, soil & biodiversity, plant 60 million trees per year and introduce requirements for greater use of sustainably-harvested wood in construction...

... invest in large-scale restoration of peatlands, heathland, woodlands, salt marshes, wetland & coastal waters - helping to absorb carbon, protect against floods, improve water quality & protect habitats, redistribute basic agricultural support payments...

... introduce a National Food Strategy to promote healthy, sustainable, affordable food & cut down on waste, support producers by broadening the Groceries Code Adjudicator, significantly increase accessible green space - inc. protecting up to 1 million acres...

... complete the coastal path, explore a 'right to roam' for waterways & create new National Nature Parks, protect & restore England's lakes, rivers & wetlands - establishing a 'blue belt' of marine protected areas, create a 'British Overseas Ecosystems Fund'...

... establish a £5 billion fund for flood prevention & climate adaptation, ensure that sustainability lies at the heart of fisheries policy, rebuilding depleted fish stocks, have fishers, scientists & conservationists at the centre of decisions and increase the budget for DEFRA.

Lib Dems will invest in public transport, buses, trams and railways - helping people reduce their impact on the environment, encourage walking & cycling - improving health and accelerate the transition to ultra-low-emission transport through taxation, subsidy & regulation.

Lib Dems will cut VAT on EVs to 5% & increase rate of charging point installation - including residential on-street points & ultra-fast chargers at service stations, ensure that every new car & van sold is electric by 2030, pass a Clean Air Act - based on WHO guidelines...

... extend Ultra-Low Emission Zones to 10 more towns & cities in England, provise £2 billion to ensure all private hire vehicles & new buses are ULE or zero-emission by 2025, shift more freight from road to rail - inc. electrifying lines from major ports as an urgent priority...

... support innovation in zero-emission technologies - including batteries & hydrogen fuel cells, reform taxation of frequent international fliers, place a moratorium on new runways, oppose expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick or Stansted and introduce zero-carbon fuels blending.

Lib Dems will give powers to LAs & communities to improve transport in their areas - inc. network-wide ticketing (like in London), implement light rail schemes for trams where appropriate, provide £4.5 billion over 5 years to restore and add new bus routes...

... promote walking & cycling - inc. increasing spending to 10% of transport budget to create safe cycle lanes, build on Local Sustainable Transport Fund to encourage car-share schemes and amend planning rules to promote sustainable transport and land use.

Lib Dems will freeze commuter & season ticket rail fares for 5 years, extend rail network improve stations & reopen smaller stations, convert it to ultra-low-emission by 2035, support HS2, NP Rail, E-W Rail & Crossrail 2 - ensuring tighter controls for value for money...

... open up franchise bidding process to deliver better services than private operators, create Railways Agency - removing DfT from decision-making, be proactive in sanctioning operators, invest in integrating rail, bus & cycle routes, improve disabled access via Access For All.

Lib Dems will enshrine the principle of animal sentience in law, introduce stronger penalties for animal cruelty - increasing maximum sentence from 6 months to 5 years, ban the sale of real fur, end the use of primates as pets, clamp down on illegal pet imports...

... establish a regulatory body to prevent abuse & avoidable deaths of racehorses, ban caged hens, develop humane ways of controlling bovine TB, minimise use of animals in scientific experimentation, and legislate to ban importing hunting 'trophies'.