Cards (2)

  • Salient are very important issues at stake in the election and voters are influenced as parties make the salient issues the main elements in their campaigns
  • Election issues
    • Brexit and whether voters preferred a second referendum or Boris Johnson's 'oven-ready' deal to 'get Brexit done' (2019)
    • The deficit and public finances, and whether there would be public-sector cuts or tax rises to address the problem (2010)
    • Trade union power after a winter of industrial unrest (1979)