uk politics

Things weren’t going well for Theresa May, when she’d called the election she’d been ahead, and it seemed a good idea to give her freer hand to handle Brexit. That was the theory at least. In practice she was a poor campaigner whilst her opponent; Jeremy Corbyn had proved the opposite rising...

How plausibly could the Liberal Party remain a dominant party in the United Kingdom? Would Labour or the Tories have to make way?

What would happen if Eurosceptic Boris Johnson joined UKIP in or around 2004, would his journalistic career come to an end, and could UKIP win seats in 2005 and 2010 general elections? What else could come of this?

I’d have David Cameron screw up even further and have UKIP win several more seats. Maybe Respect manage to win in some London Muslim areas in 2005

Reading John Campbell's Lloyd George biography, and during the late summer of 1929 he was reportedly worried that MacDonald would dissolve parliament and call a snap election giving Labour an overall majority and removing his bargaining position. Made me think would it be possible for Labour to...

Alright guys, this is my first timeline. I have a rough outline for what I'd like to do, but I'd like feedback, both on the concept and on what I have so far. POD: 1944. Tories realize that the coalition isn't going to continue after the war, and start working on an actual alternative domestic...

A Firm Hand 1974 saw a rather unremarkable General Election in January, with Ted Heath leading the Conservatives to re election. The Conservatives gained seven seats, going up to 337, while Wilson’s Labour Party dropped by 20 to 268. Labour lost the majority of there lost seats to the Tories...

The New Dawn – A British Political TL Given I have bunch of free time on my hand, I've decided to do redo a TL that I had plans for last year but never actually got around to posting or writing out fully. Its going to be chiefly focused on British politics in the late 90s and the 2000s, but I...

Supposing Reginald Maudling had won the 1965 UK Conservative Party Leadership Contest? Would he have performed worse in 1966 than Heath had; if so, by how much? And how does his leadership of the Tories, and the effect this has on subsequent elections, change British politics and alter history...

Let’s start with the UK Labour Leadership Election of 1980, and have someone other than Michael Foot win - so either he doesn’t run, and someone like Peter Shore wins; or Healy prevails on the last ballot. Given the other problems the party was facing at this time - the Winter of Discontent and...

Just as the tin says, your challenge is to make it so that the House of Lords Act 1999, or an act identical to it, is not passed with a post-1963 POD.

The UK government entertained the idea of resettling 5.5 million Hong Kongers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The site chosen was Magilligan. Apparently the idea was these likely pro-Unionist Chinese would secure Ulster for the UK. Even if a fraction of this number arrived, they would...

Basically, what would happen if Harold Wilson won a decent majority of 10-15 seats, instead of the razor-thin one he got IOTL. Would he resign sooner or later, or not at all? How would it change the Winter of Discontent, if it isn't butterflied? Would it have that much of an effect on british...

Introduced For nearly two decades now the British political parties system has been dominance by an long rivalry between the Conservative party (also known as the Tory party), and the Liberal Democrats (formally known as the Liberal Party), it's has been a long hard fought battle between...

What if, as expected, the Labour Party had won the UK election of 1992? By win, I don't necessarily mean win a majority - most contemporary expectations were for a hung Parliament with Labour holding the most seats. But what if Labour outvoted the Tories and gained at least a plurality of seats...

What if the Hoon-Hewitt coup in January 2010 had succeeded in unseating Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and leader of the UK Labour Party? Most discussion on unseating Brown as Labour leader has focused on Purnell's resignation and 2008. Perhaps that's due to the impression as the time that the...

What if the 2015 UK election had ended up with a hung parliament, as it was supposed to? I did a 5% swing from the Tories to Labour, so the Tories win the popular vote by a margin of 1.48%. This actually produced surprisingly few seat changes compared to OTL, but still enough to make a...

What if the debates had not been held in the 2010 UK election? 2010 seems to have been the perfect storm where all 3 leaders saw it was in their interest to have a debate, yet it could easily have ended up with Brown deciding he would do badly in a debate or David Cameron deciding not to risk...

Using a POD no earlier than 1988 (when the Liberal Democrats were officially established), make the party displace either the Conservatives or Labour as one of two main parties in the United Kingdom. They don't necessarily have to form a government in this period, they just have to finish with...

In OTL, Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as a member of the Conservative Party. However, for a period of some 20 years he was a member of the Liberal Party, and even served as Home Secretary while a Liberal. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to...