POLITICAL PARTIES

• 2015- Conservatives won 37% of electorate but 51% of seats
• 2015- The Green Party won one million votes yet only 1 seat
• 2015-UKIP won 12.6% of the vote (influenced by the demand for Brexit) 
• 2017-UKIP only won 1.8% of the vote
• 2019- Johnson elected Party leader and consequentially PM by 1% of population (100,000 

  members) 
• Housing Minister- Robert Genrick rushed through approval for development project to 

  satisfy Tory Donor Richard Desmond- saved him millions 
• Brexit - Boris Johnson promised £350m per week extra for NHS if we left EU
• David Cameron- left in 2016 yet before rewarded loyal supporters with peerages in HOL, later awarded peerage in 2023 and appointed as foreign secretary
• tarmer in 2020 questioned the government on algorithm used for A level grades during the pandemic 
• 1998- Bernie Ecclestone donates £1 million to the Labor Party- attempted to exempt 

  Formula 1 from ban of tobacco sponsorship 
• Labour party has been accused of anti semitism since Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015
• Corbyn suspended from Labour party in October 2020 over allegations he broke party rules regarding handling an antisemitism complaint against a local councillor
• 2017-Labour and Conservative received highest vote share since 1979 

  • 2017-Labour+Conservative 82.3% of the vote share 
• Political parties reported donations of £51 million in 2022 
• In 2022- Conservatives received £4,860,000
• In 2022-Labour received £7,220,000
• In 2022-LibDems received £1,432,000 
• In 2022- Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) received £1,000,000
• After 2015- The LibDems vote share had fallen sharply to just 8%
• 70% of big donors have been awarded peerages
• Stuart Marks- Conservative treasurer who has donated 119,500 pounds to the party since e2013, awarded a peerage
• 2015- UKIP had 3.8m votes, only 1 seat

  -Lib Dems had 2.4m votes- 8 seats
• to elect a tory MP it takes an average of 38,000 votes whereas it take around 860,000 votes to elect a Green Party MP
• Michael Farmer gave 5million to the tories, made a Lord
• Labour membership dropped by 23,000 as a result of the Party's stance on Gaza