Conservative Party publishes Alternative King’s Speech

Today [Monday 11^th May 2026], the Conservative Party has published our Alternative King's Speech, setting out plans for 16 bills spanning welfare, immigration, crime, energy, and defence – the product of 18 months of policy work since leaving government.

This detailed package – which comes ahead of Labour's King's Speech - sets out the key legislation that the next Conservative Government would be ready to rapidly bring to Parliament, and demonstrates that we have done the serious work in opposition to set out a serious and credible alternative to this failing Labour Government

It will showcase that Labour came to power without a plan and has spent nearly two years proving it. Much of the legislation that we set out today aims to reverse the disastrous decisions Keir Starmer has taken.

The Bills also set to rectify the mistakes of previous Conservative Governments, mistakes such as on immigration which Kemi Badenoch has been honest with the British public about.

The bills set out in our alternative King's Speech are grouped under two themes: Stronger Economy (covering welfare reform, high streets, employment law, regulation, energy costs, and North Sea drilling) and Stronger Country (covering ECHR withdrawal, border control, immigration caps, policing, defence spending, veterans, schools, and youth unemployment).

The bills set out in the Conservative Party's Alternative King's Speech are as follows:

• Welfare Reform Bill
• Back Our High Streets Bill
• Get Britain Working Bill
• Reducing Bureaucracy Bill
• Save British Industry Bill
• Cheap Energy Bill
• Get Britain Drilling Bill
• ECHR (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill
• Human Rights Act (Repeal) Bill
• Protecting Our Borders Bill
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship Bill
• Take Back Our Streets Bill
• Sovereign Defence Fund Bill
• Protect Our Veterans Bill
• Restoring School Standards Bill
• Youth Opportunity Bill

In full, this package demonstrates that Labour could as soon as this week take a different approach and also sets out that unlike the one-man band that is Reform, the Conservatives are taking the work of opposition seriously.

This work is also not the summit of the Conservatives' plan, but instead a demonstration of our work thus far, and a clear direction of travel for the Party over the coming years.

Kemi Badenoch MP, Leader of the Conservative Party, said:

 “It is clear to the country, and increasingly to the Labour Party, that Keir Starmer is not up to the job of Prime Minister and doesn't have a plan for Britain. The Conservatives do have a plan, which is why I am publishing our alternative King's Speech today.

“This is the culmination of eighteen months of detailed, hard work done by a renewed Conservative Party. We have thought hard about what the country needs and with this document we are showing we have a plan to deliver it. 

“If you want a country with strong borders, a country that is properly defended, a country that is a great place to start and run a business, and a country in which the law is upheld, this alternative Kings Speech delivers just that.

“We are living through the painful reality of an opposition entering government without a plan. I am not making that same mistake, and this alternative King's Speech shows the Conservative Party is coming back with a plan to deliver.”

Sir Mel Stride MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, said:

“Labour's tax rises, red tape and reckless borrowing have intensified pressures across our economy. Under new leadership, the Conservatives will take decisive action to back businesses and hardworking families.

“Our Plan for a Stronger Economy recognises the fundamental truth that we cannot tax, borrow or regulate our way to growth. We should not hold business back or burden them with needless red tape. We need a smaller, more effective state which backs innovation, entrepreneurship and growth. Only the Conservatives have the plan and the leadership needed to get Britain working again.”

Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said:

“Membership of the ECHR and the Blairite Human Rights Act has protected everyone except the British public. Our borders have been eroded and policing undermined. It is essential for any future government to tackle the lawfare holding our country back if they are to succeed.

“Our bills to authorise withdrawal from the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act do what successive governments have refused to do: put the British public first. Illegal entrants will have no asylum claim to make, foreign national offenders will be deported, the Immigration Tribunal, the sprawling apparatus of delay and obstruction that activist lawyers have turned into a permanent veto on democratic decisions, will be abolished, along with the Legal Aid that funds the merry-go-round. Whilst our Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship Bill will drastically reduce the mass immigration which is doing such great damage to our country. Through reforms to Indefinite Leave to Remain, a binding cap on migration, and new rules on visas and salary thresholds, we will grip this issue where Labour are clearly wavering.

“Meanwhile shoplifting is up, knife incidents are running at 50,000 a year, police numbers are falling and anti-social behaviour disfigures every high street in the country. Our plan to Take Back Our Streets triples stop and search, deploys 10,000 additional officers and rolls out Live Facial Recognition to the worst crime hotspots, restoring the damage Labour have done in just under two years.”