The 2025 Welsh Conservative Conference in the Llangollen Pavilion features a wide range of speakers, including industry experts, sector-specific speakers and members of the Shadow Cabinet who will be making a number of key policy commitments, including those recently announced with one year to go to the 2026 Senedd election as well as some new announcements:
Fix our Welsh NHS
• Declare a health emergency – to focus the efforts of government on the number one priority of driving down waiting times, ensuring no patient waits more than 12 months for treatment, and introducing a seven-day GP wait guarantee.
• Create an NHS Leadership Register – to ensure that failed managers are not simply rehired to new positions within the Welsh NHS.
• Public inquiry into Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
Fix education
• Children to be automatically excluded for carrying knives into school.
• A mobile phone ban in schools – coupled with a renewed discipline drive.
• Reinstate Home Economics to the school curriculum.
Putting more money in people’s pockets:
• Cut the basic rate of income tax by 1p - funded through efficiency measures across government departments, protecting health, schools and farming.
Fix transport
• Return to a 30mph default speed limit – ensuring sensitive areas, such as schools and hospitals remain 20mph.
• Unfreeze all road projects - and no more new cycle lanes until roads are fixed.
• Deliver an M4 Relief Road.
Support our farmers
• Introduce a Welsh Conservative Farming and Countryside Scheme – to replace Labour’s unpopular Sustainable Farming Scheme, ensuring food security is at its heart by listening to the farming community.
• Protect and increase funding for agriculture, providing an additional £100 million for farming over the next Senedd term.
Focus on the people’s priorities
• Initiate an Anti-Waste Action Plan – to bear down on wasteful spending and inefficiency across departments.
• Scrap Senedd expansion – reversing the creation of 36 more politicians.
• Cut spending on non-devolved issues – such as overseas offices, constitutional commissions and ‘justice delivery’.
• Cut ministerial pay and freeze for public sector employees earning more than £100,000.
• Protect women only spaces in all public sector organisations under control of Senedd – such as schools, hospital wards and leisure centres.
• Match the childcare offer available in England.
• Provide £40 million for hospices over the Senedd term, ringfencing funding for Wales’ children’s hospices to meet 50% of their operating costs.
• Support our Veterans with additional support worth millions for mentoring services, free bus travel and create a National Museum for the Armed Forces to commemorate Wales’ contributions to keeping the UK safe.
Commenting, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Darren Millar MS said:
“The Welsh Conservative 2026 manifesto will be the boldest and most ambitious in our history.
“My team and I will present a comprehensive, fully-funded set of policy commitments to fix Wales ahead of the Senedd election.
“The Welsh Conservatives are working tirelessly to hold Labour to account, while other parties like Plaid Cymru have routinely propped them up. We now stand ready to offer the only credible alternative Welsh Government.”
Welsh Conservative Policy Director and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Transport, Sam Rowlands MS said:
“The Welsh Conservatives are the only party being forthright with voters, not only by offering policy proposals to fix public services and address the people’s priorities, but including how they will be funded.
“Cutting waste and putting money back into people’s pockets is central to our offer.”
