2019 ELECTION!

By Eloise, Olivia and Sophie

 RESULTS!!!!!!
Conservatives: 365 seats, majority of 80
Labour: 203 seats
SNP: 48 seats

It wasn’t clear how the 2019 election was going

to play out.
Following the conservative's win, it was their
largest majority since the 1987 election.
Conservatives
Manifesto
Party Manifestos
• The conservative main policy was to ‘get Brexit done’ by passing a
withdrawal agreement that Johnson claimed was Oven read.
• On the economy Labour offered more
Withdrawal agreement: border in Northern Ireland so if you want to
trade in Ireland you would have to go through customs. left-wing manifesto than 2017, even
• Labours election leaflets promised to ‘get Brexit sorted’. But
offering free broadband to all. Some
this rather complicated things. Promising to spend the first six
months renegotiation Johnson’s withdrawal agreement. They would interpret their new policies to be a
then hold a referendum in which voters would be asked to pick from
Labours new withdrawal agreement or remain. desperate attempt to buy votes.

• The conservatives promised to ‘level

up’ infrastructure spending between
the north and south in an appeal to
Labour voters.

THERE WAS A GREAT EMPHASIS ON

COMPLETING BREXIT
 Manifesto also included: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfddlaibfI

“We will ensure that work will always pay. We will

• Also included in their manifesto:
• * Increase the number of nurses by 50,000
• • Leave the EU in January, Get Brexit
"done"
create a fair society, in which everyone always
contributes their fair share. So that together, led by
Boris Johnson, we can get Brexit done, and move on
to unleash the full potential of this great country.”
- Conservative website

• Boris johnson made a personal guarantee that he would get

Brexit ‘done’ in January if he won a majority.

• Pensions will rise by atleast 2.5% per year

• Reach net zero by 2050

• Freeze VAT and national insurance contribution.

Party
Competency
2018 Pm Theresa May negotiated a
withdrawal agreement with EU
called the Chequers Agreement
only for her to resign upon its
publication
The main problem was the so
called Northern Ireland backstop
which would have kept the UK in
a customs with the EU
UK would be unable to develop
trade policy with non EU states.
May resigned in may 2019 and Boris
Johnson became leader of the
conservatives in July 2019 and the
next prime Minister
Johnson was a leading Brexiteer and
many Conservative voters trusted
Johnson to deliver Brexit.
He committed himself to passing a
withdrawal agreement through
Parliament before 31 October and
tried to put pressure on MPs to back
his bill.
Party competency
• The Labour Party spent the two years
since their surprisingly strong result
in 2017 tearing themselves apart over
Brexit.
• These divisions meant that Brexit was a
policy area that Corbyn really didn't
want to talk about in public. Instead
he wanted to repeat the strategy of the
2017 general election and criticise the
Tories for austerity while offering a
bonanza of spending on public services.
However the SNP were keen for an election in
2019, their polling was strong and after
struggling at the 2017 election and they were
keen to regain their losses via a new
election.
With the Tories, SNP and Lib Dems all keen on
another election Labour didn't want to look
like they were running scared. Therefore
Corbyn agreed to back a vote in the Commons
that would overcome the Fixed Term Parliament
Act and call an election just two years after
the last.
Election Campaign
THERE WERE MANY EMBARRASSING
MOMENTS FOR BOTH PARTIES DURING
THEIR ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
The Tories were accused of misleading
voters when they changed the name of
their twitter account to ‘factcheckuk’
during the first leaders debate.
Johnsons biggest mistake came when
ITV journalist Joe Pike tried to show
the PM a picture of a sick little boy
who had to sleep on the hospital
floor due to lack of beds. Johnson
ignored the question and took his
phone slipping it into his pocket.
https://youtu.be/97zPDojMWiQ?si=4KZYvMS4vH47tCJE
Johnson was accused of running
scared of BBC’s aggressive
interviewer Andrew Neil, whom he
refused to interview with.
Labour also suffered
embarrassment when the Shadow
Health Secretary Jon Ashworth
stated how ‘it’s dire for Labour
and that voters ‘can’t stand
Corbyn.’
However, despite these
events the polls did not
change significantly and the
Tories led the polls into a
clear victory on election
day