Hilary Louise Jeune

The manifesto sets out a cross-portfolio programme spanning the economy, housing, energy, environment, healthcare and social care. It reaches across multiple policy areas and connects them through a framing of fairness, sustainability and resilience. The pledges are largely directional rather than transformative in scope, with no named investment envelope or structural reform package, but the breadth of coverage represents a genuine stretch across the Assembly's agenda.

Most of the forward commitments are stated without figures, dates or named mechanisms: 'An Energy strategy', 'Sustainable healthcare financing' and 'Delivering the next Island Plan' are each identified as goals but carry no further specification of how or when they would be achieved. The energy-related work and the Island Plan reference are the most concrete anchors, but neither includes a named instrument, a timeline or a measurable outcome. The manifesto is stronger on describing past work than on specifying future steps.

The manifesto's framing of responsible public finances and cost control is internally consistent, and the pledge to deliver the next Island Plan references an existing process. Several pledges, such as sustainable healthcare financing and online protections for young people, do not identify a revenue source, a savings measure or a named legislative vehicle, leaving the path to delivery unaddressed. The manifesto does not address potential tensions between pledges, for example between green space protection and housing delivery within the Island Plan.

The Scorecard records Jeune as Deputy Chair and Vice Chair of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Jersey Branch) Executive Committee. Neither of these posts is in the same subject area as the manifesto's principal themes of housing, energy, environment, healthcare or the economy. The pledges across all three thematic sections would require the support of an Assembly majority of 25 members, and several would also depend on the priorities set by other members of the Assembly.

The manifesto includes a substantial biographical and past-work section covering the candidate's international career, parish involvement and prior Assembly roles, alongside the forward pledges. The closing paragraph restates the broad framing of 'practical delivery, evidence-based decision-making and collaboration' without adding new specific commitments. The forward sections themselves are mostly one-line directional statements. Biographical and past-work content is included alongside forward pledges throughout.