[4] The party was led and founded by Ankit Love, a musician and film maker and son of Indian politician Jay Mala.

[15] Love subsequently stood for the party in the Tooting by-election, which was called after Khan, the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), was elected as Mayor of London.

[23] Love stood in the Richmond Park by-election on 1 December 2016, using the title of Maharaja Jammu and Kashmir, with plans to reunite India and Pakistan.

Because EU citizens could not vote in it, the party claimed that the Brexit referendum was illegal, violating the Lisbon Treaty and the European Convention on Human Rights.

[36] It campaigned for immediate emergency action to bring fossil fuel emissions to zero by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and Royal Prerogative to force all power production, shipping, aviation and automobile companies to convert to only clean energy sources.

[37] Love had previously called for the army to organise a military coup d'état and overthrow David Cameron, then the Prime Minister, on the issue of air pollution.

[34] The party also pledged to increase the use of driverless electric vehicles,[36] reduce the cost of installing solar panels in residential homes,[36] adopt electric and hydrogen-powered buses,[35] scrap the Garden Bridge project,[8] cancel the Silvertown tunnel project, revive the Thames' eel population and investigate the potential of new moorings.

[8] During the Hackney mayoral by-election campaign, the party called for a monument to remember the victims of air pollution akin to a war memorial.

[37] In agreement with its techno-progressive philosophy, the party supported the expansion of drones, driverless cars, robotic technology and artificial intelligence, stating that these would make more efficient use of scarce resources even if they increased unemployment.

[30] The One Love Party believed in an accelerated program of space exploration, including the colonisation of Mars and Venus and the mining of asteroids to mitigate economic scarcity.

[38] During the London mayoral election campaign, the party pledged to introduce Li-Fi networks[35] and use maintenance drones to oversee roadworks and street and building repairs.