This thinkpiece examines the 2024 election manifestos put out by the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal Democrat parties ahead of the General Election on 4 July. It provides a detailed overview of the positions each of the three parties sets out on questions of education, skills, and lifelong learning, highlighting their headline policies and principal areas of focus as well as their key omissions. We explore the areas where the three parties align, where they differ, and where they could go further in their visions of lifelong learning, and offers a future-facing assessment of how the next Government should tackle the subject to realise the lifelong learning revolution.