UK General Election 2024: What you need to know about election day
Al JazeeraPolling stations across the United Kingdom will open on Thursday as the nation prepares to usher in a new prime minister. Since UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a surprise snap general election in a rain-soaked announcement outside 10 Downing Street in late May, the election campaign, which has been littered with political scandals and gaffes, has played out at breakneck speed. Since 2019, when the Conservatives won the last general election with a large majority, the party has struggled with issues of “trust and competence”, Jonathan Tonge, professor of politics at the University of Liverpool, told Al Jazeera. Tonge said that at this point, Conservatives “lost the trust of the British public”, with Boris Johnson going from a “popular figure to one who was seen as untrustworthy” and Labour overtaking the governing party in poll ratings soon after. Curtice said that by focusing on immigration, Reform UK did not target an issue that was particularly crucial to why people were defecting from the Conservatives, but were “advertising policy failure”.
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