2019 UK General Election

The 2019 British general election was held on Monday, 9 November 2019 to elect 632 members to the House of Commons. The Labour Co-op, having failed to obtain a majority in the 2017 general election, had faced prolonged parliamentary deadlock over Brexit while it governed in minority. This situation resulted in a successful vote of no-confidence after Progressive Alliance MPs defected to the Change UK, which forced an early general election, 2 years after the previous general election.

BIDP leader Nigel Farage won 310 seats, just a few seats off a majority. It was the 1st time a political party other than the Labour or Conservative had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election. It was also the 1st time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election. The result was considered an upset and unexpected landslide as opinion polling leading up to election day had Labour to win a majority. It was the first time Labour lost an election since 1995.

BIDP's many of their gains were made in long-held Labour seats, dubbed the 'red wall', which had registered a strong 'Leave' vote in the 2016 EU referendum. There was a 14% swing from Labour to BIDP. Liberal Democrats also had their worst election since 1995 had 83 seats, a net loss of 144 and placed them back into 3rd. Alba Party landslide victory in Scotland led to renewed calls for a second independence referendum. As a result of the election being called, the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, resigned the Speaker. Sir Lindsay Hoyle was subsequently elected to replace him

The election result gave Farage a mandate to formally implement the Britain’s departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020 and to repeal the European Communities Act 1972, thereby ending hopes of the Remain movement of overturning the result of the 2016 referendum. Labour's defeat led to Ed Miliband conceding defeat and announcing his intention to resign, triggering a leadership election won by Keir Starmer. Kemi Badanoch also resigned due to a disastrous election.

(This was the Conservative Party's worse election result in their history, they suffered the largest fall in percentage share of vote in election history including 0 seats in Wales or Scotland for the 1st time since universal suffrage was introduced in 2017)

#### **Background timeline**

* In July 2016, David Miliband becomes President, taken over from Ed Miliband who had resigned in the wake of the 2016 Brexit referendum and Panama Papers. His party – the Labour Party – had governed Britain since the 2000 general election, in a coalition with Liberal Democrats
* 18 April, 2017: David Miliband announced that she would call a parliamentary vote to hold an early general election on 8 June
* 19 April: MPs voted to dissolve Parliament
* 8 June: In the 2017 general election, D.Miliband and the Conservatives made a net loss of 13 seats and failed to gain a majority.
* 19 June: Brexit negotiations commence.
* Summer of 2018: 3 people in D.Miliband's Cabinet resigned due to them disagreeing with the Brexit Chequers plan: Brexit Secretary, (Home Secretary) and Brexit Deputy Secretary
* November 2018: D.Miliband presented his final proposal for an initial Brexit deal following negotiations with the EU. Brexit Secretary and others resigned from the Cabinet in response, with Jeremy Corbyn calling for a leadership election for the 1st time. Members of the Eurosceptic Labour Leavers including Corbyn and Kate Hoey were seen to be launching a coup in mid-November following the Cabinet resignations.
* 12 December, 2018: There was a confidence vote held by a secret ballot of Labour MPs, D.Miliband won the vote by 200 for to 117 against, all the Brexit-supporting MPs voted "no confidence", as D.Miliband won this vote, another party leader confidence vote could not be held for 1 year under standing rules.
* Early 2019: D.Miliband was defeated 4 times in the House of Commons over Brexit
* D.Miliband was unable to pass its Brexit withdrawal agreement by 29 March 2019 and after poor Labour results in the 2019 local elections, when the party lost over 1,000 seats, there were further calls from Labour for D.Miliband to resign
* House of Commons went into summer recess on 25 July until 3 September and Brexit negotiations stopped throughout the Summer of 2019
* 28 August: Great Britain and EU negotiators met again and agreed meetings would "continue twice a week"
* 3 September: A motion for an emergency debate to pass a bill that would rule out a unilateral no-deal Brexit by forcing the Government to get parliamentary approval for either a withdrawal agreement or a no-deal Brexit. This motion, to allow the debate for the following day, passed by 328 to 301.
* 4 September: The Benn Act passes 2nd reading by 329 to 300; a 22nd Conservative, Caroline Spelman, voted against the Government position. Later the same day, MPs rejected D.Miliband's motion to call a 15 October general election by a vote of 298 to 56, which failed to achieve the 2/3 Commons majority needed under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Labour MPs abstained from the vote.
* 9 September: The Government again loses an attempt to call an election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
* 10 September: A sitting of Parliament held a debate on the revised withdrawal agreement. The President moves approval of that agreement. MPs first pass, by 322 to 306, Oliver Letwin's amendment to the motion, delaying consideration of the agreement until the legislation to implement it has been passed; the motion is then carried as amended, implementing Letwin's delay. This delay activates the Benn Act, requiring the prime minister immediately to write to the European Council with a request for an extension of withdrawal until 31 January 2020. The President wrote to European Council president Donald Tusk, to request an extension to the Brexit process.
* 11 September: The opposition BIDP called for a vote of confidence in the D.Miliband ministry, the motion succeeds, meaning D.Miliband has to either resign or call an early general election, Badanoch called an early general election for 9 November.
* 20 October: In Brussels, EU Council president Donald Tusk says he will recommend to the Council that it approve the Britain's request for an extension
* 21 October: The European Council agrees to extend the Brexit deadline until 31 January 2020—the 3rd extension
* 22 October: Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019 is passed by 438 votes to 20 satisfied that the extension to 31 January has taken the prospect of a no-deal Brexit "off the table". Efforts by opposition MPs to lower the voting age to 16 and allow EU nationals to take part have failed. D.Miliband signed it into bill made the day after for the ratification of the EPGEA.
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/24/great-britain-decaying-eyes/

## **Campaign**

BIDP 2015 - "Believe in Britain", "Britain Together" and "Telling it as it is"

* Conservatives - "Forward, Together" and "Ireland needs a change let’s change together"
* Labour Party - "A better plan, a better future"
* Liberal Democrats - "Stop Brexit. Build a Brighter Future"
* Greens - "Vote like out future depends on it"
* BIDP - "Principle, Strength, Integrity", "Get Brexit Done" "Britain First", "Put the Great Back in Britain", "Drain the Swamp", "It's Time for Change, Vote for Change", "British Jobs for British Workers".
* SNP - "It's Time to Choose Our Own Future"
* Sinn Fein - "Time For Unity"

BIDP 2024 - "The sun will always shine on Britain", "Keep Britain Great", "More Will Come", "There's No Turning Back" and "Build the Wall and Crime Will Fall"

BIDP 2045 - "Bounce Back Britain"

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### **BIDP policies**

#### **Defence**

Britain’s foreign relations should be determined by the protection of our own national interests and not by our like or dislike of other nations’ internal politics. Britain has no right to dictate the internal politics or social configuration of any other nation. We would also expect all other nations to grant this same right to Britain.  We will have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests and maintain an independent foreign policy of our own, and not a spineless subservience to the USA, the ‘international community’, or any other country. At the same time, we will strive for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours. The nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial without being forced into a straightjacket of political and economic unification which is neither desirable, ultimately practically unfeasible and which is guaranteed to create conflict rather than avoid it.

Our defence strategy is that Britain must maintain a defence capability able to inflict massive damage on any other countries in the world should they act as an aggressor. The only other requirement is the ability of our forces to defeat any internal terrorist threat. The equipment with which our forces are armed must be designed and built in Britain and must remain solely under the control of this country. Invest heavily in new technologies and weapon systems to give Britain the edge in defence industries. We will also:

* Totally opposes the use of British troops by the United Nations to carry out their political adventures.
* Withdraw and defund as a full NATO member, join the Partnership for Peace and Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
* Withdraw and defund from the Atlantic Council
* Defund the WHO, United Nations, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Hope Not Hate, Stop Funding Hate, Stonewall, Centre for Countering Digital Hate
* Issue a National Defence Medal to all veterans
* Build 500 affordable houses every year for veterans
* Build 8 halfway house hostels for homeless veterans
* Guarantee jobs in the police, prison and border services to ex-servicemen and women who have served for 12 years
* Support ex-forces personnel who want to set up their own businesses
* Issue a Veterans service card to ensure fast-track access to mental health services
* The treatment of our returning injured and dead heroes and their families will be an immediate priority
* Properly care for and equip our troops and give our generals the authority to carry out our objectives. We will also not tolerate the free reporting of war time actions as this is inevitably bad for morale. Churchill would never have tolerated a free press in wartime and we believe there is no reason to handicap our heroes with careless talk
* Establish a 1,056,000 strong Yeomanry and a 430,000 strong Air Yeomanry. The yeomanry will be required by law to serve only on British territory. A Yeomanry will give citizens the opportunity to become responsible through service.
* Increase the professional regular army. In addition, we will make about 7.5% of the army support forces roles, in particular the ceremonial and legal element, largely redundant though these personnel would be offered the chance to move to the combat element. By strengthening the Army, relative to the Navy and Air force, we would tailor our defence to the message that we are a peaceful nation though at the same time one better able to repel enemy invasion of our shores and to honour our mutual defence pact with the other members of NATO
* On a per capita basis this would probably leave the ministry of defence leaner than the Israeli Directorate of Purchases and Production and Defence Ministry Combined. Making 46,000 redundant would save circa £1.5 billion per annum.
* Reach an accord with the Muslim world whereby they will agree to take back their excess population which is currently colonizing this country, in exchange for an ironclad guarantee that Britain will never again interfere in the political affairs of the Middle East or try to dictate to any Arab or Muslim country as to what their internal government form should be
* Currently, British intelligence is fragmented between a number of agencies, including MI5, MI6, GCHQ, Defence Intelligence and BBC Monitoring. All have different funding streams and report to different government departments. This generates a significant overlap in work and resources and risks exposing gaps in the system. We will create a new over-arching role of Director of National Intelligence (subject to confirmation hearing by the relevant Commons Select Committee), who will be charged with reviewing British intelligence and security, in order to ensure threats are identified, monitored and dealt with by the swiftest, most appropriate and legal means available. He or she will be responsible for bringing all intelligence services together; developing cyber security measures; cutting down on waste and encouraging information and resource sharing.

Islamism

* Ban the Muslim Brotherhood and linked organisations
* Tighter control of imams and Islamic preachers in mosques and other Islamic sites in Britain, including tighter control of external funding for these places of worship and preachers

#### **Disability**

We recognise that individuals with disabilities should not be unfairly hindered in their daily lives due to their disability, as such we would continually look to improve standards to the following areas of society to raise the standard of living and opportunities available to engage in a normal and productive life on an equal basis with others.

Buildings

All new buildings that are built should meet required standards to allow access to disabled people, older buildings that do not have disabled access may apply for government assistance to fund building improvements to allow for disabled access.

Schools

Schools should be made accessible to individuals that have a disability, by improving building standards, additionally schools who cater to students with disabilities have the right to claim government assistance to fund additional staff that may be required in the teaching and care of disabled students.

Business

Companies that regularly employ staff with disabilities, have the right to claim government assistance to fund improvements to work areas to allow access for those with disabilities.

Additionally companies that do not have disabled access in their premises/vehicles along with other required facilities are not required to employ disabled staff.

Companies wanting to employ disabled people on a regular basis but do not have appropriate buildings/vehicles or facilities may apply for government assistance to fund necessary improvements.

#### **Media**

We believe that there should be the widest range of newspapers, television programmes, films, etc. available to the British people. To help media we will:

* Introduce a 1 company 1 title rule to prevent the build up of media empires (e.g. newspapers)
* Restore the old public information films that used to be used widely up until the late 1980s. These would include issues such as litter, the importance of healthy food for children, bullying, graffiti, keeping one’s house clean and painted nicely. It will include courtesy, queuing, and general good manners.
* Privatise the BBC & Channel 4, and scrap the TV Licence
* Regulations requiring impartiality are now antiquated and unenforceable. Upon the privatisation of the BBC, we will remove regulations requiring broadcast media to present political neutrality, to bring them in line with print and digital media.
* Support the film industry to create jobs, unlock private investment and boost exports. Therefore we would introduce tax incentives for investors in British made films.
* Extend the BBFC classification system to all television programmes. The BBFC will become the British Board of Film and Television Classification BBFTC, an elected body.
* A quota system on the level of imported programmes together with an import tax will be introduced to provide incentives to British programme and film makers and boost the British broadcasting sector.
* Reintroduce locally based and locally owned television stations with the aggregation of [./https://alternatebritainwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/ITV ITV] and Cable TV ownership. Legislation to reduce media conglomerates will help this by repealing the 1995 and 1990 Broadcasting Acts
* The funding that the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport provides to the lottery fund should be reduced by 10% of the original amount every year over a 5 year term. This is the state giving money to charity. Although the state should not, in the long run, be funding charities, the public would not forgive a government that too abruptly destroyed many of them either
* Scrap the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
* Ban on junk food and high sugary drinks adverts before 9pm to tackle obesity. Instead have fitness adverts

#### **Governance**

An Open Primaries Bill: Introduce an Open Primaries Bill to enable any political parties that wished to do so to widen their selection process to include every local voter. Open Primary ballots would help ensure candidates in winnable seats need not be Westminster insiders.

Confirmation hearings: These will require Commons Select Committees to vote to approve the appointment of any new minister before they get the job. They will also have the power to veto such appointments. The same rules will apply to senior appointments to quangos and inspection bodies, such as Ofsted

Expenditure hearings: Until the 1930s, MPs were able to amend public spending plans. Since then they can only can only cheer or boo government spending plans, which are presented to them as a fait accompli. In order to control public spending and reduce taxes over time, BIDP will give the relevant Commons Select Committee the power to veto items of spending, but not increase them.

* Replace the First-Past-the-Post voting system with STAR voting
* The salaries of Members of Parliament would be fixed by an independent tribunal, which would also scrutinize the levels of expenses claimed by MP’s.
* There would no longer be the scam of MPs voting themselves pay rises.
* Oppose state funding of political parties.
* All candidates for Parliament would be required to have a minimum of 5 years experience working in a non-political role (paid or voluntary.)
* Curtail extravagant accommodation demands made on the taxpayer’s purse by MP’s by supplying one purpose built block of basic, furnished accommodation units provided for MP’s. If MP’s wished to furnish these units to a higher standard they would have to fund this from their own pockets and not those of the taxpayer.
* Oppose the ‘cabinet’ system of governance in councils, which puts too much power in the hands of too few people and advocate a committee system which brings more openness, transparency and cross-party collaborative working
* Scrap the civil service fast-track scheme and re-introduce entry to the Home Civil Service by blind public examination, conducted by the Civil Service Commission, which will also re-assume its role as the clearinghouse for Home Civil Service generalists and take on responsibility for running a cross-Whitehall re-deployment pool.
* Re-institute the British nationality requirement for the employment of all established civil servants in the Home Civil Service.
* Scrap the failing Electoral Commission and Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) and merge their functions into a new Political Standards Authority under new independent leadership and a cross-party board of governance with voting lay members
* Scrap the Civil Service-wide performance-related bonus system, imposed across Whitehall by Cabinet Office fiat in 2001, and save £22m per annum. The vast majority of these bonuses are being paid to senior civil servants for merely doing the day-job.
* Scrap the directly elected mayors, nobody wanted them in the referendum
* Scrap the Greater London Authority Act 1999 which will scrap Greater London Authority, Mayor of London, the London Assembly. All of Greater London Authority's subsidiaries will be taken away from GLA and placed into the hands of . The Crystal will remain an exhibition and conference centre still to be owned by Siemens

Seek at all times to give council tax payers best value for money by:

* Cutting excessive allowances for councillors
* Slashing excessive pay deals and golden handshakes for council executives
* Limiting the number of highly-paid council employees
* Cutting advertising and self-promotion budgets
* Building partnerships to reduce costs
* Abolishing non-essential jobs and red tape.
* Undertake a full review of all the many statutory duties national government places on local government, with a view to reducing the burden on councils.

#### **Scottish Devolution**

* Holyrood costs a shocking £100,000,000 to run every single year. By scrapping the divisive devo-assembly, that money could be far better spent on the NHS and education and begin to repair the damage done by over a decade of SNP cuts.
* Returning executive powers to the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
* Returning legislative powers to the British Parliament in London with a revival of pre-devolution role of the Scottish Grand Committee who’ll meet at Holyrood Parliament Building
* Restore the Scottish Office to its full pre-devolution role so that funding, infrastructure and services can be delivered by the British Government directly in Scotland without the pantomime of party politics at Holyrood
* Turning the Old Royal High School into a museum for the British Armed Forces.
* Bute House will be served as the official residence of the Secretary of State for Scotland
* Victoria Quay, Edinburgh will be converted into luxury flats, converted bond warehouses, bistros, bars, and restaurants
* Increasing the number of Scottish MPs to the 70 which Scotland had until 1950, elected on a proportional system.
* Opposes what it sees as "damaging, unpopular policies" pursued by the SNP, such as their "Named Person" system, the minimum pricing of alcohol and their “hate speech” laws
* Give powers back to local councils

#### **Welsh Devolution**

* Abolish the devolved Welsh government, by scrapping the Government of Wales Act 1998 (and its amended bills)
* Hand over executive powers to the relevant departments within Britain government in London with a revival of pre-devolution role of the Welsh Office with its HQ at Crown Buildings, Cathays Park
* Abolish the devolved Senedd Cymru and hand over legislative powers to Britain parliament, in which 40 of the 650 MPs represent constituencies in Wales with a revival of pre-devolution role of the Welsh Grand Committee
* Put Welsh doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in England
* Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of Britain to Wales
* Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.
* Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local enterprise partnerships.
* Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants
* Landfill Disposals Tax in Wales should be abolished and reintegrated into Landfill Tax set by British Parliament, removing any incentive for ‘waste tourism’.
* Stimulate the north Wales economy by supporting Wylfa Newydd
* Abolish Welsh rates of all taxes
* Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure providers, educational institutions and funding bodies
* Create 8 co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses
* Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export
* Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by providing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest houses
* Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh freeports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas
* Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technology
* Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens
* Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impacts
* Prioritise support for traditional Welsh hill farming
* Veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country
* Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technology
* Take all water assets within Wales and place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit' Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water)
* Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture
* Wales' 22 local authorities will be replaced with 13 counties, largely based on Wales' ancient counties. Each county will have a recognised capital and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliament
* Welsh Aspiration and Achievements 2021-2026

**S4C and BBC**

* The government should update S4C’s public service remit to include digital and online services and remove the current geographical broadcasting restrictions. This will allow S4C to broaden its reach and offer its content on a range of new platforms in Britain and beyond.
* S4C should establish an in-house digital hub to develop and improve S4C’s digital footprint and form the basis of a Welsh language digital cluster.
* S4C should establish a language partnership with the Welsh Office and others to help deliver commitment to reach 1 million Welsh language speakers by 2050.
* The government should consider amending current approval requirements to give S4C greater freedom to invest and generate commercial revenue.
* The S4C Authority should be replaced with a new unitary board comprising executive and non-executive directors.
* The government should consider whether S4C’s current financial audit arrangements are suitable, including whether it would be appropriate to appoint the Comptroller and Auditor General as S4C’s external auditor.
* The BBC license fee scrapped and BBC privatized with BBC Worldwide became the owner. The license fee will be replaced with hybrid model subscription service. The annual payment will be frozen at £159. The next review of the BBC’s funding model in 2 years’ time “will be the last”, signalling a major upheaval for the public broadcaster
* More Welsh language on BBC and HTV
* Have a member representing Wales on BBC Worldwide and HTV Wales this will give Wales a voice right at the heart of BBC and ITV decision making;
* Give the new external regulator Ofcom the power to scrutinise the BBC’s and ITV’s performance in delivering for Wales
* Mean there will be clear obligations and measures that the BBC and ITV is required to meet and report against in serving their audiences in Wales;
* Make sure BBC and ITV programming continues to be made outside of London including in Wales, which will help encourage a healthy independent production sector.
* Devolve power over broadcasting and telecommunications in Wales to the National Assembly for Wales to ensure it has the right expertise and capacity to make the right decisions for the future of broadcasting in Wales
* Federalization of the BBC - it is essential that decentralization of power takes place within the BBC with a federal system as the best option, to ensure fairness and balance.
* Give Welsh authorities the power to impose Welsh language conditions on local radio and television licenses
* Establish an inflation-based funding formula for S4C to safeguard the long-term future of the channel
* Levy on private broadcasters and telecommunications companies to fund public broadcasting
* Extend S4C's remit to include the provision of Welsh language services on all media, rather than just a TV service
* More youth programmes-music, gig reviews etc.
* More cross-channel activities. Dual-language programmes of interest.
* Growing the sport options. The rugby is now available in Welsh and English. Is this advertised in Scotland and Ireland, where support for the games may be strong-Likewise Sgorio, which is one of the best football programmes on TV-advertise it in England!
* Keep on the good work with regards to animation-it's a real British success story in that regard.
* Abolition of broadcast impartiality rules and that big tech companies like Facebook be treated as publishers

**Welsh**

* Introduce a “Welsh for All Education Act” in order to establish a continuum of learning Welsh and a degree of Welsh-medium education for all
* Set statutory target dates for the progressive introduction of Welsh-medium only primary education across Wales
* Open more Welsh-speaking halls of residence for students
* Establish centers in every county to immerse newcomers (who have not previously been exposed to Welsh) in the language, operating on the same model as the system in Gwynedd
* Extend the Coleg Cymraeg's field of responsibility to further education, and post-16 education in general
* Introduce a Workforce Planning Bill that would establish clear targets and responsibilities to ensure an increased supply of Welsh speaking workers
* Old Welsh place names/building names will be protected by law; and new developments should have a mandatory Welsh name. Glan y Mor in Ceredigion keeps its Welsh name. Llyn Bochlwyd will not be renamed
* Recommends that all pupils take a general examination paper and either an Advanced Welsh examination paper or a standard Welsh examination paper. There would be an overlap between these two papers and therefore an opportunity for pupils of higher ability, but who sit a 'standard Welsh' exam, to gain (eg B grade) 'Advanced Welsh' and gain recognition for that
* Recommends a clear target to ensure that everyone achieves basic courtesy at a specified time and that the Minister funds free Welsh lessons for health and social care staff, in accordance with the education sector

#### **Housing**

BIDP believe strongly in the right to life, liberty and property. Property rights are the cornerstone of any civilised society and it is the purpose of the legal system to enforce those rights. Given the ease with which modern machinery can assemble a home costs of living should be far lower than they are, however, successive Governments have prevented this. Numerous regulations and restrictions on the use of land and buildings, such as planning and zoning laws, increase the costs of construction and often prevent development altogether. With liberalisation housing will soon become far cheaper and rent prices will fall, leading to sharp improvements in living standards.

* All new developments must follow Code 6 standards (full insulation, etc) using modern technologies and construction methods
* Remove VAT/Sales Tax on house repairs to encourage renovation instead of demolition and new build by corporate developers
* Permit Housing Associations to become housing management agents for empty properties for a 15 year lease
* Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people. Defend the green belt and encourage to built on brownfield sites.
* Abolish HMO licencing, which denies people the right to rent a flat unless numerous arbitrary conditions are complied with by limiting the number of unrelated people who can share a flat, the government is putting more pressure on existing housing stocks to accommodate these people, pushing up rents.
* Abolish landlord registration, which denies landlords the right to use their property unless they pay the council. Not only is this an attack on their right to use their property as they see fit, it also adds a cost to being a landlord which will inevitably be collected from the tenants, pushing up rents.
* Abolish building codes applying to rental properties. These can involve costly alterations being needed before a building can be ‘lettable’ per government standards.
* Remove height restrictions where necessary to better satisfy demand for housing can be better satisfied.
* Oppose the use of compulsory purchase and seek to abolish it
* End the “Help to Buy”, “Payments to High Need Regions”, The Affordable Homes Programme, The Greater London Authority Affordable Homes Programme, Housing Association Grants from Central Government e.g. the Community Housing Fund and Local Government involvement in providing housing, for example, by grants to Housing Associations. This policy will help by stopping subsidies from driving up the price of housing and it will reduce tax payer’s spending by circa £6.3 billion per annum.
* Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property
* Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments
* Repeal the regulations pertaining to the minimum size of rooms. People are not all babies incapable of making up their own minds whether a room is cost effective for them to live in. There are some beautifully designed micro-homes. The current policy forces useful spaces to go unused. Freedom will flourish in this matter and productivity too.
* Repeal the government’s regulation on Airbnb. A BIDP government will free hosts and guests to do business with each other as they see fit. We will not countenance any obligatory registration system. Where Air B&B businesses give rise to breaches of the peace or off-property damage the existing legal system and police provide remedy. Freedom will be grow and prosperity too.
* Repeal deposit protection regulations, make all matters of eviction subordinate to contract. The law increasingly prevents people from entering into contracts of their choice, in favour of terms and conditions which are destructive and that turn adults into children. Deposit protection regulations and eviction process regulations have made a mint for lawyers, deposit protection services and fraudsters. Increasingly the law collectivises private property. Restoration of the primacy of contract will encourage entrepreneurship, increase confidence among all private businesses, add to personal responsibility and diminish the growing culture of infinite entitlement. Movement in the direction of the power of contract would result in a less expensive rental market through an increase in supply of properties for rent as owners became less afraid. The prime beneficiaries of a less afraid landlord would be both the tenant whose rent had come down and the owner whose asset was being put to more productive use.
* The right to have lodgers. Babergh District Council, for example, states on its website that “you have the right to take in lodgers or sublet part of your home” and that “you must receive written permission from us before you sublet part of your home.” A BIDP government will make it unambiguous that potential lodgers have an unrestricted right to sublet part of your home if you agree to their doing so and that you do not need written permission for this.

#### **Transport**

We have had a muddled and chaotic mess whereby decisions are made on a one-off basis without reference to the total transport needs of the country. As a result a transport shambles exists with virtually no co-ordination between private and public transport. This country needs a overall and coherent transport strategy and to do that we will:

* Scrap Congestion Zone and Vehicle Excise Duty (commonly known as 'Road Tax')
* Have more cycle lanes in city and town centres in order to improve safety. Cycling is a very healthy and environmentally friendly form of transport, however it is also neglected and can be dangerous. Teach children to ride properly and safely, this will introduce them to the rules of the road, reduce accidents and make them aware of the problems faced by cyclists when they learn to drive.
* Develop and subsidize alternative transport fuels such as bio-diesel, electric and hydrogen
* Introduce a rolling programme for the electrification of the railway. This would bring benefits for both the environment and for increasing employment.
* Abolish the franchising system for railways, allowing any company to compete on any service in any way it sees fit to try. We will let the consumers vote with their wallets and decide what works best for them.
* Sell the tracks and stations to whoever is willing to buy them. Crucially, however, we will allow the development of new railway lines by whoever wants to build them. In doing so, we invite anyone with an idea of a service they want to provide to try to provide it
* Abolish mandatory bus licensing, allowing anyone with a bus to enter the public transport market and aid consumers in getting from A to B cheaply.
* Open all ferry services up to competition. All tenders will cease. Anyone who wants to run a service between 2 points will be free to try to do so.
* Aim to return all airports to the private sector, if it is not viable as an ongoing concern then it will be wound down.
* Seek to eliminate parking charges. These charges are simply a tax on city centre businesses. By removing this tax, more money will be available for consumers to spend on goods and services.
* A single ticketing system for public transport journeys
* Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards
* Merge Cardiff Airport and Bristol Airport into Severnside Airport to be owned and run by Severnside International Airport PLC, transfer as many people as possible from those 2 airports into the new airport.
* Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for 6 new train stations and Valley line upgrades
* Improve transport links between South and North Wales
* Encourage the use of E-bicycles as there is no problem with them continuing to use roads and cycle ways because they are visible to motorists and with due care by both cyclists and motorists the dangers can be minimised
* Raise the restriction on the power of E-bicycles from 250W to 500W
* Ban the use of E-Scooters on roads used by cars because they are not easily seen, and it is doubtful their drivers will take due caution to avoid collisions. E-Scooters should have multiple scooter ranks from which they can be rented and with a rebate on return of the scooter to any rank
* Encourage privately funded trials of any new technology such as Hyperloop that might in the future contribute to the movement of people or goods
* Support the reopening of old branch lines maybe transformed into Metros or tramways where this can alleviate overloading on city roads and there is no possibility of improving the road network

Road transport

* We will return to general use all Bus & Cycle lanes, which are largely unused and cause tailbacks in remaining lanes. We will also remove Low Traffic Zones and streets reduced to dead ends with bollards and planters. All these things just cause longer journey times while roads we are paying for become unusable.
* Restore default national speed limits throughout Britain. We would support lower speed limits only in crowded neighbourhoods, or, where there are genuine safety issues. Let's get vehicles moving again
* Reinstate hard shoulders on motorways and stop the use as extra lanes on Smart motorways, they are just death traps and must be reinstated as breakdown safety lanes. A broken-down vehicle represents a serious hazard and they do cause accidents resulting in pileups and numerous victims
* Introduce shared spaces in their localities. They will not be suitable in all situations but where they have been trialled they have improved journey times, traffic flow and congestion. They also make town centres more pleasant places to be
* Go against over-surveillance and the use of speed cameras for entrapment. But we are in favour of surveillance to protect the safety of pedestrians, children and other road users
* Denationalising the road network would involve phasing out taxes applied specifically to the road sector, such as fuel duty and Vehicle Excise Duty (road tax).
* The reform of transport taxation could be part funded by transfer of new road construction to the private sector, thereby reducing government spending on the road network. New infrastructure could be funded by tolls, property development, or some combination of the two.
* The privatisation of the network of strategic roads alone could yield about £150bn if motoring taxes were cut and pricing introduced. The revenues raised from the sale of roads should be used to reduce motoring taxes. Inefficient taxes would therefore be replaced by an efficient system of tolls.
* Further revenue from privatisation could arise from the sale of roads that are not currently classed as trunk roads but which have most of the characteristics of trunk roads and which could be gradually privatised – this could include ring roads. Additional revenue would also arise from the privatisation of roads owned by local authorities that were sold to businesses or local residents.
* Local residents, individually where appropriate, but more typically in voluntary associations, should be given the ‘right to own’ the residential roads adjoining their properties. A simple transfer process should be introduced, similar to the ‘right-to-buy’ programme for social housing.
* Policymakers need to learn from the process of rail privatisation. Trying to achieve political objectives through privatisation, rather than withdrawing properly results in massive distortions, as has occurred with the rail network. These are then blamed on the market, but are actually a result of government interference.
* Build an M4 relief road
* A 2/3 lane ‘Powys Spine Road' along the A470 & A483 corridors
* Invest in improving road links in North Wales

#### **Business**

* Get rid of unnecessary red tape - freeing up businesses and encouragement a new and existing British industries
* Create Enterprise Zones, where businesses in specific areas benefit from a simplified planning regime and tax exemptions, to help create local jobs because business friendly conditions will provide an essential boost to local economies.
* We should encourage children to become rich, successful businesspersons to contribute trillions of pounds to our economy.
* Increased private sector investment on infrastructure e.g. improve telecommunications (broadband) and transport networks to speed movement of people and goods and lower the cost of doing business
* Expand the size of the capital stock and reduce the average age of capital by encouraging a higher level of business investment by a sustained period of lower interest rates
* Tax and welfare reforms to improve work incentives and increase the incomes from people working more productively
* Improving the quality and affordability of education and training will increase its effectiveness at raising productivity - for example an expanded programme of apprenticeship schemes, better management quality, investment in STEM subjects
* Improve access to and quality of health care to reduce sickness and absence which should increase output per worker
* Deregulation of markets to encourage stronger competition leading to greater efficiency (e.g. increased competition in financial services, retailing etc.)
* Measures to boost business start-ups and research and innovation which could all lead to higher productivity in the long run
* Investment in making housing more affordable, this would improve the geographical mobility of labour and help transfer workers from one industry to another over time as the pattern of employment changes
* We defend the right of individuals to form business, cooperatives and other types of entities based on voluntary association. We oppose all forms of government subsidies and bailouts to business, labour, or any other special interest. Government should not compete with private enterprise.
* Reduce Employment Tribunal fees so that tribunals are accessible to workers.
* Allow British businesses to choose to employ British workers first and prevent access to EU schemes which encourage businesses to hire foreign workers
* Scrap EU directives which restrict the British economy and go against our work ethos.
* Employment and compensation agreements between private employers and employees are outside the scope of government, and these contracts should not be encumbered by government-mandated benefits or social engineering. We support the right of private employers and employees to choose whether or not to bargain with each other through a labour union. Bargaining should be free of government interference, such as compulsory arbitration or imposing an obligation to bargain. Improve labour market flexibility
* Financial services should be banned from cold calling
* Introduce a strict policy on domestic and foreign takeovers of British listed companies. We will aims to prevent opportunistic takeovers. These merely line the pockets of the purchaser, lead to asset stripping, and add no value to the British economy. We will require a purchaser to demonstrate in advance, that a proposed takeover has synergy with the business model of the target, and that it will add value within the United Kingdom. We'll not allow a major takeover to proceed without legally binding undertakings from the purchaser to prevent it moving the acquisition offshore.
* Not stand in the way of domestic or foreign takeovers of British privately owned businesses, but we will ensure that these are subject to legally binding undertakings  between the vendor and purchaser to respect the British national interests.
* Eliminate tax advantages that encourage companies to move work and jobs offshore. We will introduce an Offshoring Tax Act, which will cancel out such advantages and introduce generous tax breaks for those who bring them home.
* Significantly reduce the burden of Health and Safety requirements on SMEs.
* Stricter validity checks on websites offering jobs that could lead to exploitation and forced labour
* Set up a licensing scheme for British textiles manufacturers and will prosecute and close any business that uses child or adult forced labour
* Call for “total abandonment” of fast fashion

#### **Economy**

* Defend the traditional high street and small shops against the big supermarket chains and the out of town shopping malls
* Halt all further payments to the European Union (Saving: £55 million)
* Scrap HS2 (Saving: £63 billion)
* Scrap Trident (Saving: £76 billion)
* Scrap the foreign aid budget (Saving: £12.2 billion a year)
* Withdraw all British troops (Saving: more than £4 billion a year)
* Abolish benefits excluding the disability benefits (Saving: £167 billion over 30 years)
* Cancel the International Climate Finance (ICF), Britain government’s commitment to support developing countries (Saving: £1.2 billion per annum)
* Encourage all able-bodied and mentally able people to be self-dependent and self-sufficient
* Ring-fence transport, energy and IT and telecoms spending
* Ensuring that energy policy "does not sacrifice British competitiveness for green credentials"
* intensify competition policy domestically
* Carry out radical civil service reforms to promote deregulation
* Reduce political influence over infrastructure planning
* Reduce public spending to 35% of GDP by 2020
* End public funding of organizations advocating multiculturalism
* Encourage British citizens to stay in Britain instead of going on holiday aboard, make holiday resorts & towns and encourage tourist to come and spend their money in Britain.
* Make St David’s Day and St Andrew’s Day a national holiday in Wales and Scotland respectively.
* Replace St. George’s Day with Athelstan Day on the 12th July which is far more appropriate to English history, as he was the 1st King of England, and unified all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into Kingdom of England.
* Introduce a British National Day on the calendar on the 1st May when the Act of Union was passed
* Remove “bank holidays” and instead include the days into annual leave/annual holiday entitlement, so the worker can choose when to take time off
* Implement the findings of Young report
* Introduce the Trade Union Freedom Bill
* Introduce the Unfair Contract Terms Bill
* Introduce the Environment Bill - amended to give the environment watchdog full independence and enforcement powers, inclusion of legally binding targets on plastic pollution and tougher restrictions on single-use plastics with a legally binding target date of 2023 by when British supply chains will be deforestation free and "protect 30% of the British's land for nature by 2030" enshrined in law in the bill. Scrap the proposal to ban plastic exports to developing countries in the bill as Britain already has that power, and an obligation to use it under the Basel Convention, an international treaty to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries

#### **Taxation**

* Replace Council Tax with the Land Value Tax (LVT) (Revenue: £250 billion a year)
* Abolish tampon tax, inheritance tax, Stamp Duty
* Replace VAT with a ‘Sales Tax’
* Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates
* Scrap direct taxations
* Essentials shouldn't be taxed such as food, water, housing, utilities, multi-media devices, communications, transportation, education, medical products & services, and everything else a family needs (firearms too, arguably, as the duty and right to an effective means of defending self and others is essential) to survive should not be taxed.
* Non-essentials should have sales tax applied, like alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, cannabis, video games and the consoles, movies and TV shows (unless they qualify as educational), other entertainment, gambling establishments, etc.
* Cut the jobs tax - saving businesses up to £2,000 and enabling them to provide more jobs for hardworking people
* Scrap the jobs tax altogether for under 21s - so it's easier for businesses to give young people a start in life
* Tax morally such as Luxury consumption, vices like gambling, shady stuff like speculation (Tobin taxes) etc. generally tax those things most folks thing are not 100% good things.

#### Pornography and Sex

Sex and consent

The laws are there to protect children. They are not there to prosecute anyone under that age who have mutually consenting sexual activity but will be used if there is abuse or exploitation involved.

To help protect younger children,

Pornography

We believes that our children and young people should be able to surf the net for education, study and social interaction in safety, without being confronted by, and/or lured into, sexually explicit images and material. Pornography is an ever increasing mental health problem in Britain and harmful to society at large.

Research that shows gender identity issues are psychological, and therefore gender dysphoria should be dealt with as any other psychological issue. Gender identity should not be taught in schools, apart from offering help for those struggling in that area. Students should use bathrooms, changing rooms and participate in sport based on their biological gender. Gender reassignment surgery will be banned

#### Law and Courts

We believe that law has reached far beyond its legitimate boundaries, becoming a tool to rule, rather than defend the individual or govern interactions. We propose the following policies to return law making to its proper place, reduce the number of laws and regulations, restore Habeas Corpus principles which have been eroded, make the justice system accountable to the people and remove barriers to justice. A free people are required to take individual responsibility for their actions and where the State steps away as nanny individuals must step forward, to accept both positive and negative consequences of their choices, and to act voluntarily for the good and to lift themselves up and their fellows. We will:

* End the ‘secret Court system’ that is open to much abuse.
* Revoke parliamentary privilege to require the same standard of law to be applied to all citizens regardless of office.
* Return all criminal trials to trial by an independent jury, free to judge both the law and fact, and to exercise their discretion and discharge their consciences, for all criminal cases
* Reform the double system of solicitors and barristers and establish a framework allowing solicitors and barristers to represent clients in all courts and all types of cases giving more choice to individuals over who will represent them.
* Restrict the ability of State prosecutors and those involved in civil disputes to employ ‘financial siege’ tactics against their opponents.
* Repeal all of the EU-inspired legislation that binds us to EU legal institutions and EU legal instruments (e.g. the European Arrest Warrant) and replace them with the pre-existing agreements on mutual co-operation, or new treaties that protect the fundamental rights of British citizens under our laws. Likewise, we will also repeal the USA Extradition Treaty and negotiate a new treaty that protects the rights of our citizens under our laws.
* Introduce a law, if anyone carrying a sharp knife in a public place without a valid reason, they will be arrested and given a prison sentence
* A minimum 160 hours community service or £1000 fine (to fund an alcohol awareness course) for being drunk and disorderly
* Prescribe the following as terrorist groups Irgun, Jewish Defense League,
* All right-wing Irish nationalist groups that were ‘proscribed’ as terror groups will be removed, all those who were jailed will be released and pardoned.
* Take a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable ‘cultural’ practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM)
* Encourage and extend Neighbourhood Watch schemes
* Human trafficking will carry a life sentence
* Complaints against a judge or magistrate will be referred to a senior judge, or if a senior judge to a panel of lower judges or magistrates, acting independently to carry out an investigation overseen by local citizen representatives. Cases will be criminally prosecuted with a Jury where evidence is sufficient to do so
* Create a ‘Criminal Code’ very similar to 1989 code proposed by the Law Commission but with changes so that criminal law (and proposed criminal law below) are either replacing outdate legislation or added.
* Require their Chief Constables to grant firearms and shotgun licences for personal protection, as well as CS gas and pepper spray items (of the sort commonly available over the counter on the Continent). These will be for the purposes of citizens protecting themselves and their property. This is in accordance with the actual law. We will direct Police Constables to ignore the unlawful Home Office, politically motivated, guidance to the contrary.
* Respect the rights of citizens who are victims of crime to defend themselves and their property against criminals. We regard this as no more than the traditional right of self-help.
* Furthermore it will be Force policy that no police officer who is called to a scene of a burglary or other situation where a victim of crime has defended themselves or their property against a criminal or criminals shall be permitted to arrest the victim. If in breach of this policy a police officer does arrest the victim, then the Chief Constable will be directed to indicate to that officer that their chances of promotion within that constabulary are thereby ended.
* Any Chief Constable instructed as above who does not comply with our Police Commissioner’s instructions shall be forthwith dismissed.
* We believe that every victim of a criminal offence should have the right to address the court on the question of sentence and for the court to be required to bear the victim's views in mind when passing sentence.
* Ban non-Christian religious courts, such as Sharia Law courts
* Ban Sharia law
* Support the proposals for 20-year minimum sentence for those who kill police officers and other emergency workers, whilst on duty. We would ensure that sentencing protocols introduced for attacks on police officers and other emergency workers are strictly adhered to. We rely on our emergency workers to run towards trouble to protect the rest of us.
* Uphold the principles of “innocent until proven guilty” and that judgment in criminal cases must be based on objective evidence and not subjective feelings.
* Adults who commit pre-meditated child murder will remain in jail for life, with no chance of release

#### Freedom/liberty

Freedom is never free. For the last thousand years the British people have fought, and often died, to preserve our basic freedoms. We wholeheartedly believes that these freedoms must be maintained. We will:

* Replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a American-style British Bill of Rights.
* In public, we will abolish aspects of the Public Order Act and the Criminal Justice Act. Under these Acts the right to hold orderly demonstrations in public can be banned if the opponents of such activities threaten to cause trouble. Everyone has the right to freedom of speech and publication/distribution of printed material. We would guarantee the rights of all such events and would only restrict the activities of those who seek to stop such events by means of violence.
* Scrap the Crown Prosecution Service’s guidelines on ‘hate crime’, which are purely subjective. Victims of crime should all be treated equally, irrespective of the motives of the criminal. In its place Elected Magistrates would be the basis of a decision to prosecute.
* Immediately scrap all resources devoted to proactively policing ‘offensive tweets/messages’, only get involved if the ‘Brandenburg test’ (imminent lawless action) is passed, context should also be taken into close consideration
* Repeal the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 as comedians and satirists could be prosecution for their work
* Repeal the Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) introduced in 2014 which have been abused by local authorities to curtail lawful protest and criminalise speech.
* Repeal the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011. The freedom to criticise ideas - any ideas even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. And the law which attempts to say you can criticise or ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law
* Repeal the Equality Right Act 1979 and Equality Rights Act 2010, this has caused systematic discrimination against white people. Our people should be treated equally under the same laws.
* Repeal Section 35 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
* Shut down the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (£20 million pa) and the Government Equalities Office (£47 million pa) and end their politically correct social engineering of society - with the added benefit of saving about £67 million per annum.
* Repeal the Malicious Communications Act 1988, it’s censoring free speech, and “causing distress or anxiety” is subjective, we also have necessary legislation for harassment and threats
* Merge the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 into one Equality Rights Act
* Repeal Control Orders.
* Repeal Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003
* Oppose political correctness and we seek a return to common sense and logic in public policy making.
* In order to deliver common sense and real equality we will abolish all positive discrimination schemes and legislation.

#### Police

The police are starting to get cut whilst the policemen are unfit and fat and are not doing their jobs. So to ensure the police are protected and be doing their role we will:

* Reaffirm the Nine Peelian Principles. The police are to be judged not on the number of arrests but rather on the absence of crime and disorder
* Increase police numbers in England and Wales by at least 10,000 (on top of the Government pledge of recruiting 20,000), to reflect rising population, rising crime, and cuts to the service of over 23,000 officers by the Government since 2010
* Make sure police got to know the public (non-criminals) and have good relations with them
* Police should not hire anyone with a criminal record
* Police’s main job should be to patrol the streets, not to sit in cars or offices waiting crimes to happen.
* Protect the police service from unnecessary staffing cuts.
* Cut red tapes to make the Police's job easier and cut bureaucracy (get rid of the following roles: high sheriffs, sheriffs, assistant chief constable, assistant commissioner, deputy assistant commissioner)
* Increase police officer numbers.
* Have police deal with the cause of societies problems, dealing with antisocial behaviour, drug dealers and thieves as a priority.
* Reimplement stop & search
* Establish a framework through which ‘private security’ on private property in contract with the owner may work cooperatively with Chief Constable.
* Replace Police and Crime Commissioner along with their expensive offices many have deputies, chief executives, chief finance officers and a host of other highly paid officials) with police authorities
* Retain DNA of those convicted only, and discard after the conviction is spent.
* Ensure that sentencing protocols introduced for attacks on police officers are strictly adhered to.
* In 2013, the Conservative Government introduced direct entry to the senior ranks of policing, thus ending 180 years of tradition, which holds that all recruits to the police start their careers as constables. We’ll reverse this decision.
* There is no need for policing to become a degree entry requirement profession; indeed, it would be detrimental. We will keep police training in-house at Police Training Colleges. Recruiting will be from across the social spectrum.
* Law enforcement training emphasizes de-escalation of situations
* Hampshire Constabulary has installed Toughbooks in its response vehicles. This allows officers full access to all of their individual desktop applications while on the move. It is fully compatible with the force’s system for managing records and allows officers to complete paperwork away from the station. It also allows officers to fill in a form once which can then be used throughout the entire criminal justice process. This saves considerable time, by allowing officers to stay out on patrol for longer, with no need to return to the station to do their paperwork. The process also allows the information to be used by police and criminal justice partners, saving officers time
* Make the recruitment process more efficient, provide better pay for officers and chose the best person for the job (not just to fill some Politically Correct quotas) will allow police to return those replaced (left) in 2010.
* Abolish the role of the Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) and seek to recruit those capable into the main police force, and to disband the remainder.
* Complaints against police will be referred initially to a judge or magistrate to determine whether frivolous, then to a neighbouring force acting independently to carry out an investigation overseen by local citizen representatives. Cases will be criminally prosecuted with a Jury where evidence is sufficient to do so.
* End the culture of politically correct policing
* Make sure that Police forces prioritise and investigate real crimes against the person and property. Ordinary people should not be pursued and harassed by the police for telling jokes or for expressing what are perceived to be politically incorrect opinions.
* Reduce the numbers of territorial constabularies from 43 in England and Wales which will cut down duplication of costs and improve operational efficiency. This will not be a “top-down” process, but an expert, police-led approach, with the aim of producing structures more relevant to policing 21st century Britain.

#### Punishment, Prisons and Community Sentences

Boot Farm for youths

We believe that lock-up facilities are not the answer to many of our troubled youth’s problems.  Many youth are entering adulthood without the basic concepts of life such as education, cooking, cleaning, hygiene, respect for themselves and for others, and an understanding of what a happy, healthy and prosperous family is.

The concept of boot farms is to promote life skills and practical education. This is a holistic approach than the comparable boot camp concept. Youth would be required to attend for a full year with strict boundaries, regular routines, and separation from negative environments.

We’ll purchase appropriate farms or transfer farms from Landcorp, with the goal that they would eventually become financially independent. Financial independence would be possible due to revenues from farming and manufactured products produced via the youth programs. Much of the food required for the boot farms would come from the farm such as meat, milk, fruit and vegetables with the excess sold to derive revenue.

It has been proven that animals are fantastic therapy for children and youth. The youth’s behaviour will determine how much interaction they are allowed with the animals, and how much responsibility they will be given on the boot farm. Youth will be able to learn hands-on farming experiences such as milking, working a dairy and beef farm, shearing sheep and animal husbandry. These experiences will also be incorporated with theory schooling work as part of the program.

Rehabilitation

We believe that, along with our 3 stage sentencing plan for rehabilitation, more effort needs to be put into ensuring that when prisoner’s re-enter communities they are closely monitored to ensure they are ready, and supported at every step of the process. There are a number of community groups which help prisoners reintegrate with society. We will provide these groups with better recognition and support to make a real difference.

The BIDP will ensure that part of a prisoner's sentence will include completing a specified number of educational papers. These will be set in consultation with the prisoner and should relate directly to the likely employment the prisoner will find once their sentence is completed. Prisoners with longer sentences will be given the opportunity to complete trade training as a good behaviour incentive, which would enable greater employment opportunities at the completion of their sentence.

BIDP believes that prisoners should be working in meaningful and profitable work while in prison, with a portion of the funds raised through working used to recompense victims of their crime. Other funds will go towards the cost of their incarceration and rehabilitation.\*Unequivocally oppose the death penalty, instead we will legislate for a Life prison term to mean the remainder of the convict’s natural life.

* Unequivocally oppose the use of torture in all circumstances, such will be classed as misconduct in a public office in addition to other categories of crime as may be perpetrated and be prosecuted as such.

Watching football is not a crime

There needs to be changes towards normalising official attitudes towards football supporters, the end of blanket restrictive measures, and a return to tackling law-breakers rather than the majority of law-abiding fans. End:

1. The practices of kettling travelling football supporters and ‘bubble’ matches in which ticket purchases and travel arrangements are severely restricted
2. Intrusive body searches of football fans entering stadia unless there is a known and specific risk
3. Police veto over the timing of major football matches and the ticket allocations by football clubs
4. The practice by police and stewards of filming football supporters, unless there is a known and specific threat to public order

* Sporting Events Control of Alcohol etc. Act 1985 should be extended to all sport events played in a stadium (such as cricket, rugby, tennis etc.) not just football
* Possession of pyrotechnic devices being banned while in, or trying to enter, ground should be extend to all sports events not just football
* Football Banning Order should be renamed ‘Sport Banning Order’, but the sentencing should be reduced. If a fan is convicted of fighting at a sports event this should fall under ‘affray’
* Reform control matches so that supporters groups can be involved in the decisions around matches, and have a meaningful input into how they are policed and stewarded
* Permit rail seating (safe standing) in all sports stadiums
* Repeal the Football Offences Act 1991, ‘Indecent’ or ‘Offensive’ chanting should not be a crime also “missile throwing” has being misinterpreted as the throwing of fancy dress trousers in the air or throwing tiny items such as chewing gum or a Maltese. Pitch invasions should not a criminal offence, only against grounds regulations
* Repeal the Football Disorder Act 2000
* Have liaison officers patrol sport matches

#### Youth crime

We believe that our young people are our most valuable resource and we need to do all we can to prepare them for a life of healthy relationships and productivity. The causes of increasing youth crime need to be identified and addressed so that our young people, and our nation, have a future and a hope.

A preoccupation with 'rights' with very little reference to 'responsibilities' has left society in a situation where some young people have realised that they can do whatever they like with little or no consequences. When one simply gets dropped off home after committing a burglary, or is bounced between FGC’s (Family Group Conferences), the police and the courts, there is no disincentive and the pattern of crime continues. The consequences of the crime must outweigh the potential benefits

We believe we need to come down hard on 1st time youth offenders, as a deterrent to committing future crimes. To this end, we propose an overhaul of the current youth court system in order to address issues such as time frames for sentencing, increasing time frames for youth court plans and increasing the maximum community services sentences.  We would lower the age of offending for all charges through the youth courts to 12 years old. Youth sentenced in the courts will have an educational achievement linked to the sentence as an incentive to personal improvement. This may include trade training, relationship training or core subjects.

We believe that reparation must fit the crime.  If the youth and/or their family are unable to financially pay full reparation costs, community service must be based on the reparation required.  For example, theft of £1000 item would require 220 hours community service: youth rates are £4.55/hr = 220 hours for £1000.

Families with youth who have committed a crime will be required to undergo counselling to addressing and deal with any present issues such as generational cycles of addiction, abuse, crime, and the breakdown of the family unit. Repeat offenders would be required to attend 1 year at an age appropriate Boot Farm facility.

We’ll overhaul the Adolescent Mental Health Services to ensure adequate help and assistance is being given to youth who commit crimes in order to address and deal with issues such as addiction and depression.

Make sure that all the youth in the neighbourhood have positive ways to spend their spare time, through organized recreation, tutoring programs, part-time work, and volunteer opportunities

### 2017–2019 MPs standing under a different political affiliation

The 2017–2019 Parliament was defined by a significant amount of political instability, and consequently; a large number of defections and switching between parties. This was due to issues such as disquiet over anti-semitism and Brexit in the Labour Party, and divisions over Brexit in the Conservative Party. Eighteen MPs elected in 2017 contested the election for a different party or as an independent candidate; five stood for a different seat. All of these candidates failed to be re-elected.

* Emma McClarkin left the Conservative Party and decide to join and stand for BIDP
* Felicity Buchan stood at Cities of London and Westminster
* Aidan Powlesland, Nathan Gill, Claire Fox, Roger Knapman, Roger Helmer, Bill Etheridge, Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell are a member of the Libertarian Party
* Henry Bolton is still part of LibDems.

Douglas Ross stays as a qualified football official

### List of MPs standing down

Amber Rudd. George Osborne announced he will not stand for re-election, he would later serve as the chief editor of the Evening Standard and chairman to British Museum in 2017.

* Hammond would later take up a paid, part-time role as an advisor to Saudi Arabia's Minister of Finance and setting up a for-profit social housing firm
* Heaton-Jones would later work as a political commentator and analyst on broadcast media, and a feature writer. In November 2020 he was appointed President of North Devon Conservative Association. He is also Vice-President of the Tarka Rail Association.
* Bojo would moved to the United States after he was appointed by Mark Zuckerberg as Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications of Meta Platforms, Inc. in 2018. In February 2022, Bojo was promoted by Zuckerberg to President for Global Affairs at Meta Platforms
* later pen and sell many books, join the lecture circuit and became the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
* Amber Rudd would later become a senior advisor at Teneo and an advisor to Darktrace. She is also a trustee of The Climate Group
* Rory Stewart would later become a fellow at Yale University, teaching politics and international relations
* Kenneth Clarke would later become involved in a Contaminated blood inquiry
* S.Kennedy appointed as a appointed as a non-executive director of Ofwat. As of 2022, Kennedy works as a senior adviser for the strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. The company is chaired and was co-founded by former Labour Party politician Peter Mandelson
* Patrick McLoughlin was appointed Chairman of Visit Britain. He will serve until 2023
* Bercow would later leave Conservatives to join Labour. Became a part-time professor of politics at Royal Holloway, University of London and starts a podcast called “John Bercow’s Absolute Power”. However in 2022, an independent Commons complaints body found Bercow to have persistently bullied staff, sworn at them over the course of more than a decade, and at one time made an undisclosed discriminatory remark
* Cheryl Gillan and James Brokenshire both of Tories passed away. Jack Dromey of Labour also passed away
* Imran Ahmad Khan of Conservative Party was charged with sexual assault on a 15-year-old boy and found guilty, he would subsequently be deported to Pakistan and banned from Britain for 25-years.
* Jonathan Edwards of Alba Party was charged with assault
* David Amess died after being stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Ali Harbi Ali, a 25-year-old British man and Islamic State sympathiser was the preparator. Ali Harbi Ali was deported back to Somali and banned from re-entering Britain for life.
* Neil Parish
* Rob Roberts of the Conservative left the Conservatives after sexual misconduct

After the election

* Patrick Grady of Alba Party [Glasgow North] resigned while police conduct an investigation in to sexual harassment allegations against him;
* Neil Gray of Alba Party resigned to contest the seat of Airdrie and Shotts in the Scottish Parliament. Anum Qaisar of Alba Party would win
* Claudia Webbe of Labour Party was charged with harassment
* Jeremy Corbyn of Labour Party crossed the floor to become independent after disagreements between Corbyn and Labour Party as well as antisemitism
* Mike Hill of Labour Party resigned his seat following allegations of sexual harassment and victimisation

## **TV debates**

General Election (Leaders' Debate) Bill passed in 2019, it created the "Leaders' Debates Commission", an independent government agency which was charged with organizing TV election debates, between the leaders of eligible political parties during British general election.

The Commission must ordinarily have 7 members, comprising—

* 3 members nominated by the Speaker of the House of Commons,
* 2 members nominated by TV broadcasters,
* 1 member nominated by the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons on the day the Commission is appointed, and
* 1 member nominated by the leader of the second largest party in the House of Commons on the day the Commission is appointed.

1 of the members nominated under subsection shall be Chair of the Commission. Each Commission must be appointed for a whole Parliament. The operating expenses of the Commission are to be funded by TV broadcasters by agreement.

Should broadcasters fail to reach an agreement under subsection the Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for a levy to be paid by TV broadcasters for that purpose, and the charges under that levy must be proportionate to the size of the broadcaster and must be set so as to ensure that the charges over the course of a Parliament and the subsequent relevant period do not exceed the operating expenses of the Commission.

### **Rules**

**Principles and rules**

The key principles agreed by the broadcasters on the basis of holding a series of debates:

* The Commission must oversee the holding of a minimum of 3 televised debates during each relevant period
* There will be 1 debate in each full week of the campaign assuming the election is called at least 4 weeks before polling day. If there are less than 4 weeks between the election being called and polling day, it may be necessary to schedule 2 debates in 1 week. The 1st debate will not be held before the 4th day after the start of the campaign.
* Each of the three broadcasters, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4/Sky will be responsible for producing their own individual debate programme in 3 separate locations in England. ITV will produce the 1st debate in the North. Channel 4 will produce the 2nd debate in the Midlands. The BBC will produce the 3rd debate in the South.
* Each party leader will have equal treatment in each programme. The broadcasters will each nominate 1 person who will monitor the debate and be contactable by a nominated representative of each of the parties during the debate. The broadcaster’s nominated person will advise and liaise with the executive producer who will have responsibility for ensuring equal treatment.
* Each broadcaster will have a named editorial panel of their own to select the questions submitted by the public. Each will set out the criteria by which questions may be selected. Each debate will be hosted by a single presenter provided by the host broadcaster. Alastair Stewart, ITV; Adam Boulton, NBC Sky World News/Channel 4; Nick Robinson, BBC.
* The election programmes will be available to other broadcasters simultaneously to other TV channels as well as online and radio. This proposal is subject to each broadcaster complying with its duties on due impartiality and election coverage across the nations of Britain.
* Each debate will be 90 minutes in duration, transmitted live by the originating broadcaster in peak time.
* There will be no advert break during the programme.
* The format of the debate will be the same for all broadcasters.
* Around half of each debate will be themed
* There will be a live audience, transparently selected mainly from the surrounding region by an agreed and reputable polling company.
* Each audience will be broadly representative of the country as a whole subject to detailed discussions with ICM and agreement with the parties.

**Audience selection**

* The objective is to select an audience which is broadly a demographic cross section of the country. The audience to be made up of roughly 200 people, subject to venue capacity. ICM has been appointed as an external recruitment agency and the methods of recruitment are based on their expert advice. In broad terms, we will aim to:
* Recruit within a 30 mile radius of the host city, mindful of administrative borders on either side of that radius based on the revised ICM list of constituencies.
* Recruit according to gender, age, ethnicity and social class to best reflect the broader voting-age population. The recruitment procedure will be transparent, and its methodology will be available to the parties for comment.
* Ensure around 80% of the audience is made up of voters who express a voting intention at the time of recruitment.
* These will be subdivided into ratios which reflect a ratio of 7:7:5. The political ratios will take precedence over the demographic in the final selection of the audience by ICM. 8. Within the 80% (see point 6) the broadcasters retain the right to recruit some audience members who express an intention to vote for smaller parties.
* Ensure that around 20% of the audience will be undecided but will be politically engaged. ICM’s definition of undecided voters to be the basis of this selection. Reserve a small number of seats for participants from outside the ICM selected audience, whose questions have been pre-submitted and selected by the broadcaster’s editorial panel. The broadcasters may use a variety of methods to encourage the submission of such questions from across Britain in the build up to the debates.
* The number of questions from outside the ICM selected audience will be a maximum of 4 per debate. Over-recruit by a small margin to accommodate “drop outs” or “no shows” Issue audience members with a protocol of rules, including security procedures for entry and conduct during the debates. The protocol will be agreed by the parties.

**Audience role**

* The objective is to ensure maximum debate between the party leaders - the distinctive characteristic of these programmes - whilst allowing the audience’s voices to be heard directly posing questions. Each broadcaster will nominate a panel to choose the questions for its debate. The panel's membership will be public, but they will meet in private. Each selection panel will include a member to oversee compliance. List of names of panel members will be attached
* The objective of each panel shall be to ensure fair question selection in order to frame a balanced debate within the rules of our agreements. The panel will meet confidentially in the weeks running up to their debate. All questions submitted by the ICM selected audience will be seen by a member of the panel. Email questions will be sifted and a selection given to the panel. Initially, each panel will sift through a selection of questions drawn from those submitted by members of the public. They will narrow down their selections in a series of meetings up to and including the day of the debate.

Each panel will have 5 to 7 members, including a designated chair who would have a casting vote if necessary. The panel cannot be quorate with fewer than 3 of its members present. In selecting its questions, the panel will take full account of the following:

* Each question will be relevant to all 3 party leaders.
* No question shall focus on 1 party or 1 leader.
* All questions will be based on election issues
* Audience members will be made aware of these rules before submitting their final questions.
* Half the programme will be based on the agreed theme. Within that portion of the programme, a maximum of 3 questions will be selected on a single sub-theme (as listed in point 65 of this document).
* Half the programme will be unthemed. In this portion of the programme, a maximum of 2 questions will be selected on a single subject.
* The range of questions chosen will reflect the broadcasters' legal and compliance responsibilities for due impartiality and fairness. The panel will use its editorial judgement to select questions and will take into account factors such as the prominence of certain issues in the campaign, the distinctiveness of the different parties’ policies on election issues, voters’ interest and issues relevant to the role of President.
* Within these rules, the editorial independence of the panel shall be paramount, because each broadcaster is answerable to its regulator for its programme content. Questions may be selected by the editorial selection panel up to the start of the debate.
* The selected questions will not be shown to anyone outside the editorial team in advance of the programmes. Members of the audience will ask their questions. The moderator will ask the leaders to respond. The moderator may read email questions. All questions will be addressed to and answered by all the party leaders. The audience members will be restricted to asking the selected questions. There will be an option of viewer involvement via emails read by the moderator. In order to maximise the time available for viewers to hear the leaders discussing election issues with each other, the studio audience will be asked not to applaud during the debate. There will be opportunities to do so both at the beginning and at the end of each programme.

**Structure of programme**

* The programme will start with all party leaders on set and standing at their podiums. The moderator will have a podium/desk and will move within a small area to allow eyeline with the audience and the leaders. The moderator will introduce the leaders. The 1st half of the programme will be on the agreed theme but with the agreement of all the parties, in case of a major national or international event not included in the theme of the debate, the moderator will ask the leaders for their reaction to the development at the start of the programme before moving on to the theme. The time taken for the reaction to such an event will be added to the time available for the themed part of the debate, unless the event is clearly part of the theme of the debate, in which case the reaction will be counted as part of the time allotted to the theme.
* Each leader will make an opening statement on the theme of the debate lasting for 1 minute. After the opening statements the moderator will take the first question on the agreed theme. There will be closing statements of 1 minute 30 seconds from all the party leaders at the end of the 90 minutes. Each leader will have 1 minute to answer the question. Each leader will then have 1 minute to respond to the answers. The moderator may then open the discussion to free debate between the leaders for up to 4 minutes on merit. The length of the debate on each question will be decided by the programme editor. The programme editor will use their best endeavours to keep to the 4 minute time allowance but it may need to be extended in the interest of equality of treatment.
* Questions will be taken on the theme until around half way through the programme, depending on timing and ensuring fair treatment of all party leaders. At the end of the themed period, the moderator will open the debate to general questions selected by the broadcaster’s panel from the audience or via email.
* The same timing format will apply to the general questions (i.e. each leader will have 1 minute to answer the question). Each leader will then have 1 minute to respond. The moderator will then open the discussion to free debate between the leaders for up to 4 minutes on merit. There will be a clock indicating the time remaining for statements, answers to questions and responses. This will be visible to the candidates and moderator but not to the audience in the debate or on screen. The order of speakers, based on an agreed grid, has been determined by the parties drawing lots. At the end of the programme the party leaders will shake hands.

**Role of the moderator**

1. To moderate the programme
2. To keep the leaders to the agreed time limits
3. To ensure free-flowing debate being fair to all candidates over the course of the programme.
4. To ensure fairness on the direction of the programme editor
5. To seek factual clarification where necessary
6. It is not the moderator’s role to criticise or comment on the leaders’ answers. The candidates accept the authority of the moderator to referee the rules on stage and ensure a free flowing, fair debate conducted within the agreed rules

**Themes**

The order of the themes for the first half of each programme was determined by the broadcasters drawing lots. The order is as follows:

1. Domestic affairs including but not exclusively: Healthcare; Education; Immigration; Law & Order; Family; Constitution; Trust in politics; Political reform; Climate change & environment; Energy; Scotland (IndyRef), Ireland, Wales
2. International affairs including but not exclusively; International relations; Afghanistan; Iraq; Iran; Middle East; British defence; International terrorism; Europe/EU/Brexit; Climate change; China; International Development
3. Economic affairs including but not exclusively: financing of public services; Taxation; Debt; Deficit; Public finances; Recession; Recovery; Banking and finance; Business; Pensions; Jobs.

**Set**

The leaders will stand at podiums throughout the debate. The positions of the leaders during the debates are to be determined by agreement with all parties. The moderator will have a podium/desk and will move within a small area to allow eyeline with the audience and the leaders. Each broadcaster responsible for their own titles, music, branding etc.

**Audience cutaways**

The purpose of the programmes are for the viewers to see and hear the party leaders engaging in debate with each other and answering questions from the audience. The audience is a key element of the programmes and has to be seen by the viewers but there will not be undue concentration of the reactions of individual audience members. There will be a close up of the questioner while he/she is asking a question. There will be no close-up cutaways of a single individual audience member while the leaders are speaking.

However if one of the leaders directly addresses an individual audience member, a close-up shot of that individual can be shown (e.g. if a leader answers a question by directly addressing the questioner). There may be group shots and wide shots of the audience during the programme. The programme will be confined to events inside the debate studio. Breaking News straps will not be put over live coverage of the debate. On news channels (Sky News or BBC Parliament), the scrolling news tickers will offer other news but will not cover breaking news lines from the debates while the debates are taking place. Each party will have the right to recall the negotiating panel made up of representatives from the broadcasters and the parties, during the campaign to discuss issues arising from the debates

**Multi-party debate qualification criteria**

The inclusion criteria set for its multi-party debate was either having current representation in Parliament ("leaders of registered parties where the leader has been an MP, or party has been represented, in either/both of the past two parliaments.") or at least at 3% in a poll.

### Debates

All the televised debates except for the digital debate (Telegraph, Guardian, YouTube) simulcasted on BBC News Channel, BBC Parliament, NBC Sky World News, CNN, Al Jazeera English, BBC Radio 4, TalkRadio and LBC 97.3.

On the BBC, broadcaster Andrew Neil separately interviewed party leaders on The Andrew Neil Show. ITV separately interviewed party leaders on ITV Tonight held by Julie Etchingham, Channel 4/NBC Sky World News interviewed party leaders taking questions from a studio audience before being separately interviewed party leaders with Jeremy Paxman. LBC also brought on party leaders to respond to answers from callers.

BBC *Question Time Leaders Special* - The party leaders on stage separately for 30 minutes in a Q&A format with the studio audience, moderated by Question Time host Fiona Bruce.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25041740

Hull, England

Swindon, England

### Single-issue debates

During the run up to the general election, Politics Live at Broadcasting House, London held a series of special editions of the programme featuring single-issue debates moderated by Jo Coburn. In the "Climate change & environment" debate all the party leaders were urged to join, only Bednoch declined sending in Secretary of State for Business instead.

## **Media coverage**

According to Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), media coverage of the 1st week of the campaign was dominated by the Conservatives and Labour, with the leaders of both parties being the most represented campaigners (Corbyn with 20.8%; Badenoch with 18.8%). Due to this, the election coverage has been characterised as increasingly 'presidential' as smaller parties have been marginalised

In TV coverage, D.Miliband had a particularly high-profile (30.4% against Moran's 22.6%). Labour (33%) and the Liberal Democrats (32%) received about a third of TV coverage each.

In newspapers, Labour received 2/5 (40%) of the coverage and the Liberal Democrats 35%. Spokespeople from both parties were quoted near equally, with Labour sources being the most prominent in both press and TV coverage in terms of frequency of appearance. John McDonnell and Rishi Sunak featured prominently during the 1st week because the economy was a top story for the media. McDonnell had more coverage than Sunak on both TV and in print.

A large proportion of the newspaper coverage of BIDP was negative. James Hanning, writing in the British Journalism Review, said that, when reporting and commenting on Nigel Farage, Left-leaning newspapers made little mention of "a track record that would have sunk any other politician". In the Loughborough analysis, during the first week of the campaign, for example, Labour had a positive press coverage score of +29.7, making them the only party to receive a positive overall presentation in the press. BIDP, meanwhile, had a negative score of -70, followed by the Conservative Party on -10. Over the whole campaign, press hostility towards TUV had doubled compared with during the 2019 election, and negative coverage of the Labour halved.

Much like 2019, Conservatives and BIDP had little support from mainstream media with only 2 national newspapers endorse them. The BBC was accused of being left-wing and biased against Tories and BIDP

BIDP were the party with the most TV coverage in the 1st week after Labour and Liberal Democrats, with an 8th of all reporting (13%). In newspapers they received less coverage than the Alba Party, whose leader Nicola Sturgeon received nearly as much coverage (12.3%) as Farage and Miliband (17.4% each), the Greens (5%) were 5th in terms of TV coverage, respectively.

Campaign group Truth Defence wrote a report on the election called "GE2019: A post mortem on truth", which showed that the Labour Party were 7x more likely to mislead the voters than Conservative Party or BIDP and "showed that the framing of the fake news issue on TV obscured the vastly disproportionate role of Labour in producing and disseminating falsehoods." Group founder Dr Justin Schlosberg, Senior Lecturer of Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and a former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition, stated that Labour "designed and launched a campaign which was based on the dissemination of lies and falsehoods."

## **Endorsements**

* Endorsements of the 2019 UK General Election

**NOTE: "Currently" means the day before the election date**

## **Results**

List of political parties

\*Includes Speaker of the House of Commons; Lindsay Hoyle, for Chorley

George Osborne-Managing Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs at PR company Edelman UK, specialising in health, food and drink, climate change and energy policy as well as Chairman of the British Museum and became an investment banker at Robey Warshaw

Peace & Justice Project

John Finucane is not elected as a Sinn Fein MP instead plays a a professional goalkeeper and captain of GAA's Lámh Dhearg GAC

### **MP's elected**

#### **BIDP**

354 candidates (including 16 in Ireland, 19 in Wales and 14 in Scotland)

Nicola Blackwood

Luciana Berger

Emma McClarkin

1. Aaron Bell
2. Andy Strangeway-Yorkshire
3. Adam Holloway
4. Adrian Davies
5. Andrew Moffat
6. Andrew England Kerr
7. Andrew Charalambous-North East Cambridgeshire
8. Andrew Selous
9. Andrew Lewer
10. Alan Craig
11. Belinda de Lucy
12. Ben Walker
13. Ben Bradley
14. Brendan Clarke-Smith
15. Brian Monteith
16. Bob Spink
17. Bob Blackman
18. Catherine Blaiklock-
19. Colin Lambert-
20. Charles Walker
21. Christopher Mills
22. Chris Loder
23. Chris Green
24. Craig Mackinlay
25. Daniel Kawczynski
26. David Kurten-Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
27. David Coburn
28. David Rowlands
29. David Jones
30. David Amess
31. David Campbell Bannerman
32. Derek Clark
33. Desmond Swayne
34. Diane James-Bedford
35. Donald MacKay
36. Dominic Raab-
37. Dr. Donald Boyd
38. Dr. Tom Rogers
39. Duncan Baker
40. Ed McNally
41. Edward Leigh
42. Eddie Hughes
43. Emma McClarkin
44. Esther McVey
45. Ernie Warrender
46. Feryal Clark-
47. Frank Field
48. Gary Streeter
49. Gareth Bacon
50. Geoffrey Cox
51. Gerard Batten-Romford
52. George Eustice
53. Gordon Henderson
54. Giles Watling
55. Godfrey Bloom
56. Graham Brady
57. Greg Knight
58. Helena Windsor
59. Heidi Allen-?
60. Ian Luder
61. James Duddridge
62. Jacob Rees-Mogg-
63. John Hayes
64. John Longworth, the former director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce
65. Jay Aston-
66. James Glancy
67. Jake Pugh
68. Janice Atkinson
69. James Heartfield
70. Jayda Fransen-Hornchurch and Upminster
71. James Carver-Orpington
72. James Sunderland
73. Jane Collins-Rotherham
74. Jean Mathieson
75. Jeff Armstrong
76. Jeff Green
77. Jill Seymour-The Wrekin
78. Julia Reid-
79. Jonathan Arnott-Easington
80. Jonathan Bullock-Kettering
81. John Longworth
82. John Stevenson
83. Joel McGuigan
84. John Rees-Evans
85. John Redwood
86. Jonathan Gullis
87. Jonathon Riley
88. Jo Swinson
89. John Glen
90. Julian Lewis
91. Julia Searle
92. Karl McCartney
93. Kevin Hollinrake
94. Kirstan Herriot
95. Laura Towler
96. Lance Forman
97. Lee Anderson
98. Lee Rowley
99. Lisa Nandy
100. Louise Bours
101. Liam Fox
102. Liz Truss
103. Maurice Glasman
104. Marco Longhi
105. Marietta King
106. Martin Daubney-
107. Martin Vickers
108. Margot Parker
109. Mark Harland
110. Matthew Patten-Folkestone and Hythe
111. Malcolm Pearson
112. Mark Reckless-Rochester and Strood
113. Mark Jenkinson-Workington
114. Mike Greene-Peterborough
115. Mike Nattrass
116. Mike Wood
117. Michelle Brown
118. Mitch Feierstein-Reading West
119. Michael Heaver-Castle Point
120. Mike Hookem-Kingston upon Hull East
121. Michelle Ballantyne
122. Norman Tebbit
123. Nick Fletcher
124. Nicky Morgan
125. Nigel Hastilow
126. Nigel Evans
127. Pat Mountain
128. Paul Nuttall
129. Patrick O'Flynn
130. Paul Oakden
131. Pauline Latham
132. Paul Weston
133. Paul Golding
134. Peter Reeve
135. Pat Bryant
136. Peter Kirby
137. Peter Dawe
138. Peter Whittle-Eltham
139. Petrina Holdsworth
140. Penny Mordaunt-
141. Phillip Broughton-Hartlepool
142. Philip Davies-
143. Philip Hollobone
144. Priti Patel
145. Piers Wauchope-North Thanet
146. Robert Courts
147. Robert Rowland
148. Robin Hunter-Clarke
149. Ray Finch-?
150. Rebecca Long-Bailey-Salford and Eccles
151. Rupert Lowe (businessman and former Chairman of Southampton F.C.)-Southampton Test
152. Richard Braine
153. Richard Elvin
154. Richard Tice
155. Richard Suchorzewski
156. Roger Lane-Nott
157. Ronie Johnson
158. Roger Bootle-Watford
159. Sam Towler
160. Sally-Ann Hart
161. Sally Bate
162. Scott Benton
163. Scott Mann
164. Sebastian Fairweather
165. Sid Cordle
166. Steve Crowther
167. Stuart Waiton-
168. Steve Grimes
169. Stephen Unwin
170. Stuart Agnew
171. Stephen Lee
172. Stuart Waiton
173. Sian Berry
174. Steven Woolfe-Greater Manchester
175. Simon Darby-Stoke-on-Trent South
176. Suzanne Evans-Shrewsbury and Atcham
177. Theresa Villiers
178. Tom Hunt
179. Tony Sharp
180. Tim Aker
181. Tim Collins
182. Tony McIntyre
183. Tommy Robinson
184. Tom Pursglove
185. Tim Aker-Thurrock
186. Tim Loughton
187. Winston McKenzie-Croydon Central
188. William Dartmouth
189. William Wragg
190. Victoria Ayling
191. Zac Goldsmith
192. James Wells-Islwyn
193. Tim Jenkins-Llanelli
194. Neil Hamilton-Newport
195. Nathan Gill-Caerphilly
196. John Bufton-Montgomeryshire
197. Amelia Womack-Wales
198. David Rowlands
199. Caroline Jones-Wales
200. Michelle Brown
201. Mark Reckless
202. Mandy Jones
203. Kate Forbes

Dan Morgan

Stan Robinson

Anne Marie Waters left to create a new party - For Britain Movement; Nikki Sinclaire, Jack Buckby, Caolan Robertson, Eddy Butler and Sue Clapp also joined.

#### **Liberal Dems [50 seats won]**

1. Bath
2. Bracknell
3. Brecon and Radnorshire
4. Berwick-upon-Tweed
5. Camborne and Redruth
6. Carshalton and Wallington
7. Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
8. Chesham and Amersham
9. Cheadle
10. Colchester
11. Cheltenham
12. Chippenham
13. Eastleigh
14. East Surrey
15. Eastbourne
16. Eddisbury
17. Harrogate and Knaresborough
18. Kingston and Surbiton
19. Lewes
20. Hazel Grove
21. Mid Dorset and North Poole
22. North Norfolk
23. North Shropshire
24. Tiverton and Honiton
25. Orkney and Shetland
26. Oxford West and Abingdon
27. Richmond Park
28. Penistone and Stocksbridge
29. South Cambridgeshire
30. Nick Clegg-Sheffield Hallam
31. North Cornwall
32. North Devon
33. St Albans
34. Somerton and Frome
35. Southport
36. St Austell and Newquay
37. St Ives
38. Sutton and Cheam
39. Solihull
40. South East Cornwall
41. Taunton Deane
42. Twickenham
43. Totnes
44. Thornbury and Yate
45. Torbay
46. Truro and Falmouth
47. Wells
48. Westmorland and Lonsdale
49. Yeovil

Anna Soubry, Nick Boles, Oliver Letwin and Richard Ashworth all left the Conservative Party and decide to join and stand for 4 Freedoms Party

Antoinette Sandbach, Julie Girling, Phillip Lee and Sam Gyimah left the Conservative Party and decide to join and stand for the Liberal Democrats

Charlie Elphicke could not stand for re-election due to legal reasons, in July 2020 he was found guilty of all 3 counts of sexual assault and subsequently sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment

Philip Hammond announced he will not stand for re-election and left the Conservative Party believing it to be "far-right", he would later take up a paid, part-time role as an advisor to Saudi Arabia's Minister of Finance and oversees business appointments for former ministers

George Osborne announced he will not stand for re-election, he would later serve as the chief editor of the Evening Standard and an adviser to investment management group Blackrock

Amber Rudd announced she will not stand for re-election senior advisor at Teneo and an advisor to Darktrace. She is also a trustee of The Climate Group but she still endorse CRA (despite being a Remainer)

Michael Fallon announced he will not stand for re-election after allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour

Jo Johnson announced he will not stand for re-election due to conflicting between "his brother and nation's interest", he endorsed his brother Boris

John Bercow announced he will not stand for re-election and stood down as Speaker of the House of Commons, he would later leave Conservatives to join Labour. Deputy Speaker Lindsley Hoyle replaced him as Speaker

Alan Duncan, Alistair Burt, Andrew Griffiths, Bill Grant, Caroline Spelman, Claire Perry, Charlie Elphicke, David Tredinnick, David Lidington, David Jones, Ed Vaizey, Glyn Davies, Guto Bebb, Henry Bellingham, Hugo Swire, Jeremy LeFroy, Keith Simpson, Mark Prisk, Mark Lancaster, Mark Field, Margot James, Mims Davies, Nick Hurd, Peter Heaton-Jones, Patrick McLoughlin, Ross Thomson, Richard Benyon, Richard Harrington, Sarah Newton, Seema Kennedy all announced they will not stand for re-election and left the Conservative Party

Nicholas Soames and Kenneth Clarke both announced their retirement from Parliament and left the Conservative Party

#### **Labour and Co-Operative Party**

1. **Jeremy Corbyn [Leader]-Islington South & Finsbury**
2. **Lindsay Hoyle [Speaker]-Chorley**
3. Angela Rayner-Ashton under Lyne
4. Jess Phillips-Birmingham Yardley
5. Shabana Mahmood-Birmingham Ladywood
6. Chi Onwurah-Newcastle upon Tyne Central
7. Imran Hussain-Bradford East
8. Naz Shah-Bradford West
9. Shahid Malik-Dewsbury
10. Parmjit Dhanda-Gloucester
11. Keith Vaz-Leicester West
12. Claudia Webbe-Leicester East
13. Thangam Debbonaire-Bristol West
14. Apsana Begum-Poplar and Limehouse
15. Dawn Butler-Brent Central
16. David Lammy-Tottenham
17. Florence Eshalomi-Vauxhall
18. Rushanara Ali-Bethnal Green and Bow
19. Virendra Sharma-Ealing Southall
20. Rupa Huq-Ealing Central and Acton
21. Kate Osamor-Edmonton
22. Tulip Siddiq-Hampstead and Kilburn
23. Marsha de Cordova-Battersea
24. Janet Daby-Lewisham East
25. Sadiq Khan-Tooting
26. Andy Burnham-Leigh
27. Afzal Khan-Manchester Gorton
28. Diana Abbott
29. Abena Oppong-Asare
30. Bell Ribeiro-Addy
31. Mark Hendrick
32. Paul Boateng
33. Seema Malhotra-
34. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
35. Yasmin Qureshi
36. Tahir Ali
37. Zarah Sultana

#### **Liberal Democrats [8 seats]**

1. Wera Hobhouse - Bath
2. Layla Moran - ?
3. Munira Wilson - Carshalton and Wallington
4. Sarah Olney - Richmond Park
5. Edward Davey - Twickenham
6. Tim Farron - Westmoreland and Lonsdale
7. Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
8. Alistair Carmichael - Orkney and Shetland

Chuka Umunna

#### **Alba Party**

1. Argyllshire
2. Aberdeen South
3. Aberdeen North
4. Bute and Northern Ayrshire
5. Central Ayrshire
6. Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
7. Dundee West
8. Dundee East
9. Dunfermline and West Fife
10. Edinburgh East
11. Edinburgh North and Leith
12. Glasgow East
13. Glasgow North
14. Glasgow North West
15. Glasgow South
16. Glasgow South West
17. Glenrothes
18. Inverclyde
19. Inverness
20. Kilmarnock and Loudoun
21. Linlithgow and East Falkirk
22. Livingston
23. Motherwell and Wishaw
24. Moray and Nairn
25. Na h-Eileanan an Iar
26. North Ayrshire and Arran
27. North East Fife
28. Paisley and Renfrewshire North
29. Paisley and Renfrewshire South
30. Perth
31. Ross and Cromarty
32. Stirling and Falkirk
33. Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan
34. Stirlingshire West
35. West Dunbartonshire

Alex Salmon left Alba Party and joined Independence for Scotland Party following accusations of sexual misconduct in Alba Party that was proven to be not true.

#### **Others**

1. Arfon (Plaid Cymru)
2. Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Plaid Cymru)
3. Ceredigion (Plaid Cymru)
4. Conservative Party-Penrith and The Border (won by Rory Stewart)

## **Aftermath**

### **Russia Collusion**

Numerous media and opposing political parties (except for Conservative Party) called for investigation into 2020 election for Russia interference in 2020 election as many believed there was 'strong interference'

Every dual-citizen participant in the grooming gang scandal will have their British citizenship renounced and deported to their country of origin.

**British dual citizens renouncing**

* Luciano Bacheta the racecar driver kept his Indian and Italian citizenship
* Racecar driver Adam Khan has only Pakistani citizenship
* Racecar driver Alex Yoong has Malaysian and Chinese citizenship
* Basketball player Luol Deng is now only South Sudanese and will represent the aforementioned country, also lives in Egypt and USA
* Basketball player Ben Gordon has only American citizenship
* Boxer Amir Khan has only Pakistani citizenship
* Kickboxer Kash Gill has only Indian citizenship
* F1 driver Lando Norris renounced his Belgian citizenship and kept his British citizenship
* Cyclist Chris Froome renounced his Kenyan citizenship and kept his British citizenship
* Swimmer Hannah Wilson renounced her Hong Kong citizenship and kept her British citizenship
* Ben Te'o plays for Samoa national rugby team not for England
* Female tennis player Johanna Konta represents Australia not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Hungarian and Australian citizenship
* Female tennis player Naiktha Bains represents Australia not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Australian and Indian citizenship
* Female tennis player Emma Raducanu represents Romania not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Canadian, China and Romania citizenship
* Female tennis player Eden Silva represents Sri Lanka not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Russia and Sri Lanka citizenship
* Female tennis player Tara Moore represents Hong Kong not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Hong Kong citizenship
* Cuban-born triple jumper Yamilé Aldama represents Sudan not Great Britain. Her British citizen was renounced but she kept her Cuba and Sudan citizenship
* Eng Hian, Flandy Limpele, Atu Rosalina are badminton players and they all relocate to Indonesia
* Shara Proctor a long jumper represents Anguilla not Great Britain
* Zharnel Hughes sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres represents Anguilla not Great Britain
* Shana Cox a track and field athlete represents USA not Great Britain
* Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel has now only a Swazi and American citizenship
* Gurshaan Sethi visa runs out and does not renew it, returning to India.
* Sitong has only Hong Kong citizenship
* Nicola Garcia has only Hong Kong citizenship
* Brendan Perlini plays for Great Britain not Canada ice hockey national team
* Nathan Walker plays for Great Britain not Australia ice hockey national team