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Labour Party (44 % ) - Keir Starmar USA
Conservative party (Rishi )(22 % support ) UK
Reform UK (Right wing )
Why early election
1945 - summer election (last time)
Migration decreases- Rwanda Deportation
Inflation drop - 2022 -11 % recent - 2.3 %
GDP - +0.6%
Budge - August month (defence and blood)
78 Mp move to Reform UK
UK - 650 area
UK election - 326 majority
Rishi - 344
Total - 650
Min age - 18 For PM 3 phase Labour - 205
Citizen of UK Nomination Same India system
Prince never vote Elimination process
For 5 year Final process(by party voting + mp voting)
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday (May 22) announced the United Kingdom
will go to polls on July 4, despite having until January 2025 to hold the elections.
This is all the more surprising given the dire position of Sunak's ruling Conservative Party
right now -
Most polls show the Tories trailing the opposition Labour Party by double-digit percentage
points.
SO WHY SUNAK CALLED FOR EARLY ELECTION?
Sunak's announcement, though surprising, isn't all together shocking.
There's been speculation that he would call for an election in summer, rather than
wait for October or November as expected.
Interestingly, this will be the country's first July election since 1945 when Labour
leader Clement Attlee won a majority of 145.
The rumours intensified after the Office for National Statistics released the inflation
data.
Over the past few months, the UK under Sunak's prime ministership has seen
several 'positive' developments that Sunak has repeatedly spoken about.
These include a drop in inflation, a return to economic growth (even if
limited), lower net migration and the Rwanda deportation scheme becoming
law.
Analysts believe Sunak's gamble seeks to leverage these 'positives' to
maximise the Tories' electoral chances.
This is especially so because tougher times might beckon in the coming
months.
ECONOMICS BEHIND DECISION
Many argue that at the core of the decision to go to early polls is the UK's
economic trajectory.
On Wednesday, the UK's Office of National Statistics announced that
inflation reduced to a three-year low of 2.3%, just above the Bank of
England's 2% target, and well below the 11% high at the end of 2022.
GDP data also showed that the UK had returned to a nominal 0.6% growth
rate in the first quarter, after coming under a technical recession in 2023.
Moreover, August's budget was nevertheless unlikely to be 'spectacular' from the Tories'
point of view.
A spree of big spending commitments by Sunak's government - including an increase in
defence spending and multi-billion pound compensation packages for the victims of the
infected blood scandal and the Post office scandal - have left little room for tax cuts or
anything else.
As one Tory insider told The Daily Telegraph: "If you haven't got any money to give away
before the election, what are you waiting for?"
There's also a tactical reason behind Sunak's early poll announcement.
Some believe that Reform UK, a right-wing populist party, could cut Tory votes.
Hence, by calling an early election, it denies them time to prepare.
For the Tories, the announcement of an early election also sought to pause
internal conflict within the party and plug the steady flow of defections witnessed
in recent months.
So far, this strategy has not paid off with 78 more Tory MPs resigning (choosing
not to stand for re-election) following the election announcement.
ELECTION SYSTEM IN UK
The general election is to elect Members of Parliament - or MPs - to the
House of Commons.
The UK is divided into 650 areas, called constituencies, and each of
these elects one MP to represent local residents at Westminster.
Most candidates represent a political party, but some stand as
independents.
Under a system called "first past the post", the candidate who gets the
most votes becomes the MP for that area.
Shortly after Sunak made the announcement of the polls, Labour leader Keir
Starmer, who is widely expected to become the next prime minister,
Made a televised statement, saying the polls gave voters the chance to bring
about change.
Infected blood scandal
Say sorry - Rishi 1970 to 1980
3000 death Infected blood product
30000 infected In Haemophilia treatment transfer HIV blood
2017 start inquiry
In 1970 National health service
Started treatment for haemophilia known
As factor 8 - wonder drug
Blood imported from USA jail
30000 HIV or hepatitis
1250 have both
1991 first time starts
Screening
1980-1980 NHA -due to cost
Not started screening
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain issued a stark apology on Monday to victims and
families of one of the country's worst health care failures,
After a damning report found that blood contaminations that killed 3,000 people and
infected more than 30,000 others could have been largely avoided.
"This is a day of shame for the British state," Mr. Sunak toldlawmakers in the House of
Commons, where he made a "wholehearted and unequivocal apology" for what he said
were repeated failings by British officials.
BUT WHAT IS CONTAMINATED BLOOD SCANDAL?
During the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of people who had the blood-clotting
disorder haemophilia, were given blood donated or sold by people who were
infected with the HIV virus and hepatitis.
Tainted blood was also given to people who needed blood transfusions after
childbirth or surgery.
In the early 1970s, the National Health Service (NHS) started using a new
treatment for haemophilia called Factor VIII.
Factor VIII was considered to be a "wonder drug" for patients with classical
haemophilia and Von Willebrand Syndrome (which is a bleeding disorder in which
the patient's blood cannot clot fully), more efficient and convenient than earlier
treatments.
The product used by the NHS was imported from the United States, where a
large volume of donated plasma at the time came from prisoners and users of
intravenous drugs who were paid for their blood.
The inquiry report has estimated that more than 30,000 people were infected with
HIV, hepatitis C or, as in the case of 1,250 haemophiliacs, both.
Nearly two-thirds of those who were infected with HIV later died of AIDS-related
illnesses, and an unknown number transferred HIV to their partners, a report by The
Independent said.
The report said that 2,400-5,000 recipients of blood developed hepatitis C, with the
exact figure not known yet, as symptoms can show up years later.
