The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)
The Scottish Nationalist Party was the third largest in the Commons at the end of the last parliamentary session. It only stands in the 59 Scottish constituencies - in 2017, the party won 35 seats.
Even though the party can't win an outright majority in the Commons, it has already said it will be open to a "progressive alliance" with other groupings at Westminster should the Dec. 12 poll end in a hung parliament where no one has an overall majority. But it's ruled out any deal with the Conservatives.
Its leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is also First Minister of Scotland as the SNP is the largest grouping in the country's devolved assembly. The party, described as socially liberal, campaigns actively for Scottish independence. The party hasn't yet launched its formal election manifesto but it's announced plenty of policies it wants voters to decide on.
- Brexit: the SNP opposes the UK leaving the EU and has said it wants Scotland to stay in Europe.
- Health: the party has consistently pledged to keep the NHS in public ownership while it has recently made high profile commitments to increasing spending on mental health services. It also wants to stop the NHS to be part of any UK government trade talks.
- Education: previous commitments from the SNP include making ability to learn more important than ability to pay when it comes to university education.
- Childcare: the SNP has introduced increases in childcare provision before and aims to see all 3 and 4 year olds accessing 30 hours of free support every week by 2020.
- Housing: the party has recently underlined its commitment to building more affordable homes in rural areas in Scotland as well as increasing the amount of social housing available across the country.
- Environment: the SNP has made increasing recycling a priority and it's focused on plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland to zero by 2045.
- Social Care: free personal care for those who need it and increased budgets for programmes supporting carers have been past SNP priorities.
- Crime: the party has previously committed to increased funding for Scottish police and has made tackling domestic abuse, including psychological, a priority.
- Personal Finance: past pledges include reducing youth unemployment by 40% by 2021 and increasing the Real Living Wage for all workers over 18.
- Economy: the SNP has been vocal in its plans to end austerity measures previously.
- Transport: ahead of its manifesto launch, the SNP campaigned for full control over Scotland's rail system to be devolved to its parliament and pledged to reduce carbon emissions from trains to net zero by 2025.
- Immigration: the SNP is calling for Edinburgh to have full control of immigration policies in Scotland and has previously pledged to bring in a Scottish visa which would tailor criteria for moving to the UK to suit Scotland's needs.