The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

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Roseanna Cunningham resigned as leader of the SNP on 4 May 2018. following their defeat in the general election to the Scottish Parliament. The candidates for leadership were Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon. Sturgeon was elected leader, Because Salmond was never First Minister of Scotland, allegations of sexual harassament were not made against him.

Angus Robertson continued to serve as the leader of the SNP in the House of Commons for all of the 2014 to 2019 parliament..
 

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In accordance with the Fixed Term Parliament Act a general election was held in the UK on 3 October 2019. The Conservative Manifesto promised that a Conservative government would give the British people a referendum on membership of the European Union. Prominent features of the Labour Manifesto were the Green New Deal, a National Education Service, and an end to austerity. The Liberals were both defending the policies of the coalition government, and having their own distinctive policies. The Liberal leader, Danny Alexander, was asked whether his party would support the Conservative Party or Labour Party if no party had a majority. He said that the largest party should have the first opportunity to form a government

When all the results had been declared the number of seats in the House of Commons won by each party were as follows (0ctober 2014 general election):
Labour : 293 (235)
Conservative: 234 (264)
Liberal: 66 (85)
SNP: 21 (26)
DUP: 7 (5)
UKIP: 6 (11)
Green: 5 (5)
Sinn Fein: 5 (5)
SDLP: 5 (3)
Plaid Cymru: 4 (5)
Alliance: 1 (2)
UUP: 1 (3)
Independent: 1 (1)
Speaker: 1 (0)
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Total: 650 (650)
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The percentage votes for each party were as follows:
Labour: 43.0 (31.4)
Conservative: 30.9 (34.2)
Liberal: 9.6 (14.6)
UKIP: 5.1 (9.8)
Green: 3.9 (3.6)
SNP: 3.2 (3.4)
Plaid Cymru: 0.6 (0.7)
Others: 3.7 (2.3).
 

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The number of constituency seats won by each party in the general election were as follows:
Labour: 275
Conservative: 194
SNP: 18
Liberal: 14
DUP: 6
SDLP: 4
Sinn Fein: 3
Plaid Cymru: 2
Alliance: 1
Green: 1
Independent: 1
Speaker: 1
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Total: 520
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The number of regional list seats won by each party were as follows:
Liberal: 52
Conservative: 40
Labour: 18
UKIP: 6
Green: 4
SNP: 3
Plaid Cymru: 2
Sinn Fein: 2
Alliance: 1
DUP: 1
UUP:1
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Total: 130
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Andy Burnham became Prime Minister at the head of a minority Labour government with confidence and supply from the Liberal Party. The members of his cabinet appointed on 4 and 5 October 2019 were as follows:
Prime Minister: Andy Burnham
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons: Jon Cruddas
Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords: Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Ed Balls
Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary: Hilary Benn
Home Secretary: David Lammy
Business and Enterprise Secretary: John Denham
Communities, Housing and Local Government Secretary: Lisa Nandy
Culture, Digital, Media and Sport Secretary: Chris Bryant
Defence Secretary: Dan Jarvis
Education and Skills Secretary: Rachel Reeves
Energy and Climate Change Secretary: Rebecca Long Bailey
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary: Ed Miliband
Health and Social Care Secretary: Angela Rayner
Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor: Sir Keir Starmer
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Liz Kendall
Northern Ireland Secretary: Jo Cox
Overseas Development Secretary: Jenny Chapman
Scotland Secretary: Pamela Nash
Transport Secretary: Anna Turley
Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Pat McFadden
Wales Secretary: Jo Stevens
Women and Equalities Secretary: Jess Phillips
Work and Pensions Secretary: John Mc Donnell.
 
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The fourteen Liberal constituency seats after the general election were as follows: Bath; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Carshalton and Sutton; Cheltenham; Cheadle; Dunbartonshire East and Kirkintilloch; Edinburgh West; Fife North East; Kingston and Surbiton; Lewes; Oxford West and Abingdon; Orkney and Shetland; Twickenham; Westmorland, Lonsdale and South Cumbria.

The Liberals lost ten constituency seats and gained three, a net loss of seven. They lost Brecon, Radnorshire and North Ceredigion; St. Ives, and Yeovil to Conservative; Cambridge, Leeds North West, and Sheffield Hallam to Labour; and Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, Argyll and Bute, Gordon, and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to SNP. The Liberal gains, all from Conservative, were Cheadle, Cheltenham, and Oxford West and Abingdon.

Five Liberal cabinet ministers in the Conservative/Liberal coalition government lost their seats in the general election. They were Danny Alexander, Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, (Inverness, Nairn etc) ; Nick Clegg, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Sheffield Hallam); David Laws, Education and Skills Secretary (Yeovil); Greg Mulholland, Overseas Development Secretary (Leeds North West); Sir Robert Smith, Scotland Secretary (Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine).
 

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In the days after the October 2019 general election, David Davies resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, and Danny Alexander resigned as leader of the Liberal Party. Michael Gove won the Conservative Party leadership election, and Tim Farron was elected leader of the Liberal Party.

Covid - 19 happened as in OTL. But the Labour government imposed the first and second lockdowns each a week earlier than in OTL. Also elderly patients were not transferred from NHS hospitals to care homes, and there was not such a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment. The death total from Covid was about twenty thousand less people than in OTL.

Furlough was generally the same as in OTL, Social security benefits were raised by twenty pounds a week, and not reduced. The different policies compared with OTL, were those proposed by Labour in OTL. There were no parties in 10 Downing Street during lockdowns.

The Conservative Party generally supported the first lockdown, but was divided on the second lockdown. 74 out of 234 Tory MPs voted against the legisislation authorising it, as well as the six UKIP MPs.

This timeline has now come to an end. I thank all the people who have read it, commented and liked it.

The End
 

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pipisme said:
In the days after the October 2019 general election, David Davies resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, and Danny Alexander resigned as leader of the Liberal Party. Michael Gove won the Conservative Party leadership election, and Tim Farron was elected leader of the Liberal Party.

Covid - 19 happened as in OTL. But the Labour government imposed the first and second lockdowns each a week earlier than in OTL. Also elderly patients were not transferred from NHS hospitals to care homes, and there was not such a shortage of Personal Protective Equipment. The death total from Covid was about twenty thousand less people than in OTL.

Furlough was generally the same as in OTL, Social security benefits were raised by twenty pounds a week, and not reduced. The different policies compared with OTL, were those proposed by Labour in OTL. There were no parties in 10 Downing Street during lockdowns.

The Conservative Party generally supported the first lockdown, but was divided on the second lockdown. 74 out of 234 Tory MPs voted against the legisislation authorising it, as well as the six UKIP MPs.

This timeline has now come to an end. I thank all the people who have read it, commented and liked it.

The End
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Thank you very much I really enjoyed it. Your attention to plausible detail is as usual outstanding.
 
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