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The Heritage Party will be standing candidates in all 16 constituencies in the Senedd elections on 7th May 2026.

The list of Heritage Party candidates is:

The Heritage Party’s major policies for the Senedd are:

• Defend our culture and heritage
• Stop Comprehensive Sexuality Education
• Restore parents as children’s primary educators
• Self-sufficiency in energy – End net zero
• Protect our farmland and countryside
• No to wind turbines, solar panel arrays, BESS and pylons
• Support farmers to produce food
• Rebuild our manufacturing industry
• Self-sufficiency in skills
• Keep cash for all offline payments
• Stop Digital ID
• End ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ status for Wales
• Close migrant hotels and HMOs
• Ensure free speech and our fundamental freedoms
• Keep Wales in the UK
• Abolish 20mph limits – restore 30mph
• Scrap the Senedd
• No more lockdowns
• Keep our seas and rivers clean and pollution-free
• No to entanglement in foreign wars

For further details, the full Heritage Party Welsh manifesto lists all Heritage Party policies for the Senedd.

The fundraiser to support Heritage Party candidates is online.

David Kurten, the Heritage Party leader interview on 11/2/2026 at the Senedd protest about protecting Wales from several wind turbine developments planned across mid-Wales.

Jason Barker interview on 11/2/2026 at the Senedd protest about protecting Wales from several wind turbine developments planned across mid-Wales.

The Heritage Party has produced a manifesto for the Senedd elections on 7th May 2026, based on the common sense principles that are the foundation for our national policies.

Heritage

• Affirm Wales as an integral part of the United Kingdom
• Affirm unifying Welsh culture founded on Christian principles
• Foster appreciation and gratitude for our nation
• Protect and preserve our historic monuments, buildings, countryside and heritage sites
• Abolish political correctness and DEI targets
• Require visitors and guests to respect and adapt to Welsh culture

Freedom

• Assert our fundamental freedoms
• No Digital ID
• No facial recognition without consent
• Require retail and offline outlets to accept cash
• No more lockdowns

Immigration

• Scrap ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ designation
• Scrap incentives to bring unaccompanied 16 to 18-year old migrants from England to Wales

Family

• Adoption to husband-wife couples only
• Ban surrogacy
• Ban LGBTQQIAAAPP+ propaganda to children
• Remove ‘gender’ from law
• Legislate for community oversight of care homes to protect children in care
• Prohibit AI decision making in adoption decisions

Life

• Support pro-life legislation in Westminster
• Scrap abortion ‘buffer zones’
• Prohibit ‘pills by post’
• Fund crisis pregnancy centres
• Fund palliative care
• Affirm parents’ rights to accept life-saving treatment for children

Education

• Encourage excellence in education
• Aim for self-sufficiency in skills in Wales
• Affirm parents as primary educators of children
• Grammar, Technical, General and Special Schools in every area
• Support Welsh-speaking schools
• Support faith schools
• Restore Assisted Places Scheme in Wales
• Support home education
• No home education registration
• Abolish Comprehensive Sexuality Education, PSHE and Citizenship from curriculum
• Prohibit sexualisation of school children
• Allow term-time holidays and scrap fines against parents
• Drop 50% University target 
• Support apprenticeships and learning trades

Work and Welfare

• No to Universal Basic Income
• Childcare paid directly to mothers, not institutions

Health

• Cut NHS waiting lists
• NHS Wales for UK nationals only
• Foreign nationals must use private healthcare
• Support on-the-job training for nurses and midwives
• Enforce informed consent / medical autonomy
• Encourage preventative medicine
• Remove restrictions on HCQ, IVM, FBZ, CBD, DMSO and other cheap, safe medicines
• Prohibit organ harvesting
• End pathologisation of emotions and feelings as ‘mental health’
• Slash use of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics
• Treat genuine mental health issues with therapy

Police and Crime

• End two-tier policing
• Bring back community policing
• Re-open police stations
• End abuse of terrorism laws

Military

• Oppose engagement in foreign third-party conflicts
• Support for veterans to find jobs and start businesses

Finance

• Cut Senedd budget deficit to zero 
• Cut spending to end borrowing
• Defund net zero, migrant hotels, migrant benefits, diversity officers, QUANGOs and NGOs

Taxation

• Keep Welsh Income Tax in line with England and Northern Ireland
• No increase in Land Transaction Tax

Economy

• Affirm free market economy
• Re-industrialise Wales
• Scrap sales quotas for electric cars and heat pumps
• Scrap price capping and price fixing
• Protect steel works, blast furnaces and oil refineries
• Protect energy and water infrastructure

Energy

• Scrap net zero; lift restrictions on CO₂ emissions
• Repeal climate emergencies
• Re-open coal power stations
• Grant new licences for oil and gas exploration and extraction
• Open new and existing coal mines
• Ban wood burning in power stations
• Commission small modular nuclear power stations
• No more wind turbines
• No more solar panel arrays on agricultural or green land
• No more battery energy storage systems

Housing and Planning

• All new homes in traditional styles
• Abolish housing targets
• Create Renaissance Zones to restore historic buildings
• No more HMOs
• Scrap Energy Performance Certificates for buildings
• Fund maintenance of historic church buildings
• Abolish DNS and IC/SIP planning powers and return decision making to local councils with right of appeal to residents

Transport

• Oppose ban on petrol or diesel vehicle sales
• Scrap 15-minute cities, SMART cities, LTNs, CAZs, LEZs, ULEZs
• Restore 30 mph as default in urban areas
• Keep rail in public ownership
• Keep buses in public ownership
• Approve new road and bridge construction where necessary

Agriculture

• Subsidise farmers to produce food
• End all payments to farmers to not produce food
• Support regenerative farming
• Ban genetically modified Frankenfoods
• End unnecessary and draconian culling 

Animal Welfare

• Ban non-stun slaughter
• Label all meat with method of slaughter
• All eggs to be free range as a minimum
• All animals to be free range as a minimum
• Ban intensive fish farming
• Ban animal testing for cosmetics

Fishing

• Prohibit electric pulse fishing
• Prohibit ‘bottom trawling’

Environment

• Stop rampant development
• No building on protected countryside or agricultural land
• Ban neonicotinoids and glyphosate
• Prohibit addition of fluoride to water
• Prohibit spraying chemicals for solar dimming or geo-engineering
• Invest in dual rainwater and foul water systems to end sewage spills
• Restart river dredging to prevent flooding
• No construction in flood plains
• Moratorium on 5G until proven safe

Government

• Abolish the Senedd
• Restore Senedd powers to Welsh counties or Westminster as appropriate
• Scrap Police and Crime Commissioners
• Restore our historic counties

Civil Service

• Restrict salaries to maximum of First Minister’s salary
• British nationals only in civil service
• Ban Common Purpose and Fabians

The Heritage Party will be standing candidates in all areas of Wales in the Senedd elections in 2026. 

The electoral system has been radically changed for this year’s elections, with 16 constituencies electing 6 members each by Proportional Representation. 

The Heritage Party welcomes this change. Party Leader David Kurten stated:

“Proportional Representation is welcome in the Senedd elections. It means that every vote counts as people can vote for who they really want to, rather than voting negatively to keep out the worst choice, which is what happens with the First Past the Post system.”

The Heritage Party is seeking to gain election to the Senedd for the first time in 2026.

The new Heritage Party manifesto for 2025 is now online and available to read at:

heritageparty.org/manifesto

There are now 27 sections covering all policy areas, including new sections on Work and Welfare, Pensions, Civil Service Reform and Local Government.

The Heritage Party manifesto is the only socially conservative manifesto with policies based on common sense principles which will restore our nation.