The Conservative manifesto for the 2024 election includes several key policies aimed at addressing housing, taxation, crime, defence, education, climate change, welfare, social housing, healthcare, social care, and migration. Here’s a breakdown of the main points:

1. Housing:
   • Help to Buy scheme: Revival to assist first-time buyers with equity loans.
   • Stamp duty: Permanent threshold of £425,000 for first-time buyers.
   • Renters: Ban on no-fault evictions and a two-year tax break for landlords selling to existing tenants.
2. Taxation:
   • Self-employed: Abolition of National Insurance contributions.
   • Pensioners: Increase in personal tax-free allowance.
   • Tax cuts: Funded by crackdowns on tax avoidance and cuts to welfare.
3. Crime and Prisons:
   • Tougher sentences: For knife crime, grooming, and assaults on retail workers.
   • New prison places: Addressing overcrowding with plans for new places and more community police officers.
4. Migration:
   • Rwanda flights: Regular flights for asylum seekers.
   • Legal cap on migration: Annual fixed number of visas.
5. Defense:
   • Spending: Increase to 2.5% of GDP by 2030.
6. Education:
   • University courses: Closure of low-quality degrees.
   • Apprenticeships: 100,000 extra annually.
   • Schools: Ban on mobile phones during school hours.
7. Climate Change:
   • Net zero: Commitment without new green charges.
   • Renewables: Acceleration of renewable energy projects.
8. Welfare and Civil Service:
   • Savings: £12bn from welfare reform and £3.9bn from cutting civil service numbers.
   • NHS managers: Reduction by 5,500.
9. Social Housing:
   • Anti-social tenants: Three-strikes policy for eviction.
   • Allocation: New tests to ensure fair allocation.
10. Healthcare:

• Dentists: Tying new dentists to NHS work post-qualification.
• New hospitals: Continued commitment to building new hospitals.

11. Social Care:

• Care cost cap: Introduction of an £86,000 lifetime cap on care costs.

These policies are designed to address current social, economic, and political issues with a focus on promoting home ownership, supporting the self-employed, and toughening crime and immigration policies, among other goals.