2019

• Boris Johnson had been PM since July and called a snap election in December.
• why did Boris call a snap election in December 2019?

  • to break the parliamentary deadlock
  • he convinced parliament to pass the General Election act which bypassed the Fixed Term Parliaments act
• what was the result of the 2019 snap election?

  overwhelming conservative victory : 80 seat majority

  Corbyn had to resign
• which right wing papers supported the conservatives in 2019?

  • the sun
  • the daily mail
  • the express
• what did the general public like about the conservatives in 2019?

  • their focus on “getting brexit done”
  • promising 50,000 new nurses
  • money for social care and police without raising income tax, VAT or NI
  • pledged that the UK would be carbon neutral by 2050
• what position did Labour offer on brexit in 2019?

  • a renegotiated deal followed by a second referendum
  • increased spending on NHS
  • rise in the national minimum wage
  • pledging the UK would be carbon neutral by 2020
• what did the liberal democrat’s promise in 2019? who lost their seat because of this?

  • to rejoin the EU without a second referendum
  • Jo swinson
• after ‘getting brexit done” what did Johnson begin?

  • a levelling up agenda with the aim of keeping former labour seats in conservative hands
  • promised to reduce economic inequalities though investment and increasing skills through apprenticeships