The 2019 election: one year on

As we fast approach the one year anniversary of our historic election last December, the Conservatives continue to deliver on our ambitious manifesto, which set our vision for this country that will level up opportunity and unlock the potential of every region of the UK.  

  • Despite the extraordinary challenges Britain faced this year, we have not wavered from delivering on our election promises, putting levelling up at the centre of our economic recovery, investing in skills, jobs and infrastructure across the UK as we begin to rebuild our economy.
     
  • Last year the British people put their faith in us, and we are determined to show them that the bold platform they elected us on is being realised; from providing more nurses, doctors and police officers, increasing education funding, and investing in the infrastructure that supports our world-class public services like schools and hospitals which people rely on every day.
     
  • And as Britain moves to the next stage of the process of leaving the European Union on 31 December with the end of the transition period, the Conservatives have delivered on our promise to take back control of our borders by introducing a new points based-immigration system which will attract the best and brightest from around the world, while encouraging British employers to train and invest in the UK’s workforce.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Weve already left the European Union now all we want to do is trade on WTO rules. Its what we voted for.
8:58 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
You are absolutely correct that we have already left the European Union.

You are not, however, right to suggest anyone voted to trade on WTO rules. That was not on the ballot paper in the referendum which only asked whether Britain should remain a member state of the EU or leave the European Union.

Before the referendum the Leave campaign certainly did not argue that we should have no trade deal; and trade on WTO rules - they said getting a trade deal would be easy.
4:58 pm
Anonymous said…
To be a FREE and sovereign state requires WTO rules not some half baked deal that Doris is negotiating
7:52 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
That is not what the Leave campaign said during the referendum campaign.

If they had I am absolutely convinced that they would have put off enough "soft" leave support to lose the referendum.
3:51 pm
Anonymous said…
Leave means Leave, not hard, not soft - just Leave.
7:08 pm
Chris Whiteside said…
The ballot paper framed the choice as being between remain a member of the EU or leave the EU.

That clearly implied that Leave meant cease to be a member state of the EU and we did that earlier this year.

If the leave campaign wanted a mandate for "leave" to mean anything other than ceasing to be a member state of the EU they should have said so before the referendum so people knew what they would be seen to have voted for.

9:53 pm
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