UK General Election 2017

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b with SDLP , which is usually supported by Labor.
c with Alliance , which is usually supported by the Liberal Democrats.
f The three green parties Green Party of England and Wales , Scottish Green Party and Green Party in Northern Ireland are subsumedunder the green votes.
Distribution of seats in the new lower house
         
A total of 650 seats

The Sinn Féin MPs are not taking their seats in Westminster.

Composition of the newly elected lower house:
Conservative 317 Democratic Unionist Party 10
 		Labor 262 Scottish National Party 35 Liberal Democrats 12 Plaid Cymru 4 Sinn Féin 7 * Green Party 1 Independent 1






Speaker 1
* The seven Sinn Féin MPs do not take their places in Westminster and are therefore not shown.

The 2017 UK House of Commons election took place on June 8, 2017. It was the first general election in which Theresa May ran as Prime Minister. It was also the first general election for opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn . The election took place against the background of the upcoming negotiations on Britain's exit from the EU (“Brexit”).

After the terrorist attack in Manchester on May 22, 2017 , the election campaign of the parties was suspended until May 26, 2017. The terrorist attack in London four days before the general election also led - with the exception of UKIP - to a brief interruption of the election campaign.

When it became clear on June 9th that the ruling Conservative Party would lose its absolute majority in the British House of Commons , May announced that he would continue to govern with the support of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Queen Elizabeth II commissioned her to form a government. A corresponding intergovernmental agreement was signed on June 26, 2017 by negotiators of the two parties in London. Critics fear that this support from the DUP could disturb the balance in Northern Ireland.

Election mode

Like the previous election, the election took place according to relative majority voting in 650 individual constituencies. The candidate with the highest number of votes in each constituency wins ( first-past-the-post ) ; there is no second ballot. The constituency boundaries have not changed since 2010. A reduction in the number of MPs and electoral districts to 600, advocated in particular by the conservatives, has been postponed to 2018 at the earliest.

The polling stations were open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time.

To the starting position

Starting position before the election:
inner circle: votes,
outer circle: parliamentary seats

On April 18, 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would seek a new election for the lower house . She justified her step by stating that she needed an agreement in the lower house for the difficult Brexit negotiations. According to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act , an early election motion must be passed by parliament with a two-thirds majority. The next day, parliament approved the new election with 522 votes against 13. MPs from the Conservative Party , Labor Party and Liberal Democrats voted for the new election, while MPs from the Scottish National Party (SNP) abstained.

The opposition welcomed the new election. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn said the election was an opportunity to elect a government that represented the majority of the population. Liberal Democrat Chairman Tim Farron said the election was an opportunity to change the direction the country was headed. The First Minister of Scotland and Chairwoman of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon said that there is now the possibility of stopping the “ hard Brexit ” sought by the Prime Minister .

Political commentators suspected a major reason for the scheduling of the new election in the current high poll of the Conservatives. In addition, the prime minister is striving for a personal mandate for the voters by standing directly for election.

Opinion polls

Opinion polls for election

At the time of the election announcement on April 18, 2017, the Conservatives were in a poll high. In the polls, they were given over 45% of the vote on average, while Labor was around 27%. So there was a gap of almost 20 percentage points between the two parties, so that the conservatives under Theresa May were predicted by many commentators a certain, possibly even landslide election victory. The conservatives' lead seemed impossible to catch. After the election announcement, however, the polls showed a steady, sharp rise in the values ​​for Labor, while the values ​​for the Conservatives initially remained stable and then fell steadily after a brief interim high. On June 1, 2017, Labor was above 35% and the Conservatives below 45%, so the gap had narrowed to less than 10 percentage points.

UK majority voting makes accurate election predictions difficult because nationwide party averages do not automatically imply constituency gains. In the last general election in 2015, the opinion research institutes with their predictions were in the vast majority well below the actual final result. Then self-criticism was exercised and the methods for determining the survey results were partially revised. YouGov predicted a hung parliament on June 6, 2017 , in which the Conservatives, with 304 seats (95% confidence interval : 265–342), would be the strongest party, but far from the absolute majority.

Political positions of the parties

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Conservative party

The Conservative Party's manifesto contains the following key points:

  • The European Union should be left smoothly and in an orderly manner.
  • The National Health Service (NHS) budget in England is set to increase by £ 8 billion annually through 2022/23.
  • Schools in England are expected to receive an additional £ 4 billion by 2022 .
  • The net immigration should be reduced to below 100,000 annually.
  • The aim is to achieve a balanced budget by 2025.
  • The previous plans to reduce corporate taxes and increase tax allowances should be retained.
  • No increase in VAT.
  • A million new apartments are to be built by 2020 and a further half a million by 2022. 160,000 houses are to be built on state building land.
  • Over the next 10 years, 40 billion pounds will be invested in transport infrastructure. The Heathrow airport is to be expanded.

Labor Party

On May 11, 2017, details of the Labor Party's electoral manifesto, which was in preparation, were made public. The final 128-page draft program was finally presented on June 1, 2017, with corrections made in detail to the leaked draft program.

  • Economic growth is to be boosted by a massive public economic stimulus program, through which 250 billion pounds are to be invested primarily in infrastructure over the next 10 years.
  • These investments are to be funded by reintroducing property tax on incomes over £ 80,000, increasing corporate taxes to 26% and introducing a financial transaction tax.
  • The railways are to come under state control again as soon as the private concession contracts expire. The Railways Act 1993 , which privatized the railways, is to be withdrawn. Ticket prices are to be frozen and all railways are to be equipped with wireless Internet access. The railways are to be redesigned to be handicapped accessible.
  • The British Post Royal Mail is to be transferred from its current private ownership to public ownership as soon as possible.
  • In the field of energy companies, at least one large state-run company is to be created. The network infrastructure is to remain in state hands or be transferred there. The water supply is also to be returned to the state. The expansion of renewable energies is to be massively promoted, so that by 2030 65% of electricity will come from renewable sources. In order to achieve this goal, Labor is in favor of retaining nuclear energy.
  • The Health and Social Care Act 2012 , enacted under the Cameron administration , which restructured the National Health Service (NHS), is to be repealed. The "privatization of the health sector" is rejected. The budget of the NHS in England is set to increase by £ 30 billion over the next five years.
  • At least 100,000 public apartments are to be built annually and rental prices are to be regulated more closely.
  • In the area of ​​military policy, Labor supports the billions in the renewal of the Trident nuclear submarine system. The NATO goal of spending two percent of the gross domestic product on armaments is supported. Labor is in favor of disarmament efforts.
  • With regard to immigration to the United Kingdom, Labor advocates “sensible regulation” of the flow of migrants, but wants to avoid “false promises” in this regard.
  • The “Brexit” vote of the British voters should be respected. The EU provisions on employee protection, environmental protection and consumer rights are to be retained. The Brexit negotiations with the EU should aim to gain access to the EU internal market as much as possible. Parliament is also to be given a greater role in the negotiations. The rights of EU citizens in the UK are to be protected.
  • The role of the trade unions in employee representation is to be strengthened.
  • Tuition fees should be abolished and more money invested in education.

Liberal Democrats

On May 17, 2017, the Liberal Democrats published their election manifesto. As the main election topic, the party wants to campaign for a referendum on the final outcome of future EU exit negotiations, in which British voters should also have the opportunity to vote for the country to remain in the EU.

The party also advocates greater investment in the NHS and the education system. In the area of ​​transport, local public transport should be expanded. The construction of energy-saving apartments is to be promoted and diesel vehicles are to be banned by 2025. By 2030, 60% of energy should be generated from renewable energies. The goal of spending two percent of the gross national product on the military is supported. The political system is to be made more democratic through the introduction of proportional instead of majority voting, lowering the voting age to 16 years and strengthening local decision-making bodies. The Liberal Democrats also called for the decriminalization of personal cannabis use.

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party's (SNP) election manifesto contains the following key points:

  • The austerity policy is to be ended. In the next legislative period, £ 120 billion will be released for national public spending.
  • At the end of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum -Prozesses in to Scotland a second referendum on Scottish independence to be held.
  • Scotland should remain in the EU internal market .
  • The minimum wage is set to rise to more than £ 10 an hour by 2021/22.
  • The spending of the NHS in England is expected to grow to the Scottish level.
  • A non-partisan consensus to abolish the Trident nuclear submarine system is sought.

UK Independence Party

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has the following main objectives in its election manifesto:

  • Complete the Brexit process by 2019 without making any money transfers to the EU.
  • Immigration is to be reduced to zero net within five years.
  • Foreigners with no or poor qualifications should be excluded from the possibility of immigration from the time of the final Brexit .
  • The spending on development aid is to be cut and used in the NHS .
  • The public veiling of the face and Sharia courts should be banned.
  • The House of Lords ( the upper house ) should be abolished.
  • A separate regional parliament is to be set up for England.

Election recommendations

National daily newspapers

newspaper Choice recommendation annotation link
Daily Express Conservative party The Express was the only daily newspaper to call for UKIP to vote in the last parliamentary election . [1]
Daily Mirror Labor Party [2]
Financial Times Conservative party [3]
i No [4]
Morning Star Labor Party [5]
The Daily Telegraph Conservative party [6]
The Guardian Labor Party The Guardian's main goal is to prevent an absolute majority of conservatives . Therefore, in addition to the general election of Labor , he calls for the tactical election of the Liberal Democrats and Greens in some constituencies . For Scotland, the paper recommends voting for the SNP in those constituencies where they are the Tories' greatest rivals. [7] [8]
The Independent No The online daily newspaper recommends that voters vote according to their convictions; even if there is little chance that the favored candidate could move into parliament. She hoped for an election result that would be encouraging for the “progressive, liberal political center”. The Independent supports unionist candidates in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales . Furthermore, it expressly speaks out in favor of Brexit shadow minister Keir Starmer ( Labor ) to conduct the future negotiations on the UK's exit from the EU . [9] [10]
The Sun Conservative party [11]
The Times Conservative party [12]

Sunday newspapers

newspaper Choice recommendation annotation link
The Mail on Sunday Conservative party [13]
The Observer No The Observer is not convinced of any of the top candidates to run the country. However, the newspaper appeals to elect local candidates who stand for “a progressive future in Europe and at home” and against May's austerity and hard Brexit policies . That is why the paper is decidedly against the choice of the conservatives . [14]
Sunday Express Conservative party The Sunday Express was the only Sunday newspaper to call for UKIP to be elected in the last general election . [15]
Sunday Mirror Labor Party [16]
The Sunday Telegraph Conservative party [17]
The Sunday Times Conservative party [18]
The Sun on Sunday Conservative party [19]

Weekly newspapers

newspaper Choice recommendation annotation link
The New European No Recommends voting tactically against the Conservatives and UKIP and supporting candidates who support a second EU referendum. [20]
The Socialist Labor Party The Socialist is the party organ of the Trotskyist Socialist Party . [21]
Socialist Worker Labor Party [22]
The New Worker Labor Party [23]
Weekly worker Labor Party [24]

Magazines

magazine Choice recommendation annotation link
New Statesman Labor Party [25]
The Economist Liberal Democrats For the first time in its history, the Economist recommends voting for a small party. For the future, the magazine hopes for the formation of a new liberal party made up of moderate conservatives and social democrats based on the model of Emmanuel Macron's LREM in France. [26]
The Spectator Conservative party [27]
Tribune Labor Party [28]

Regional and local newspapers

newspaper Choice recommendation region link
Daily Record Labor Party Scotland ( Glasgow ) [29]
Evening Standard Conservative party Greater London [30]
Express & Star Conservative party West Midlands and Staffordshire [31]
The Herald No Scotland ( Glasgow ) [32]
The National Scottish National Party Scotland ( Glasgow ) [33]
The Scotsman No Scotland ( Edinburgh ) [34]

Other publications

magazine Choice recommendation annotation link
Kerrang! Labor Party The music magazine supports Corbyn. [35]
DIY Labor Party Music magazine [36]
New Musical Express Labor Party Music newspaper [37]

Results

The final result of the election was only known on the evening of June 9th, because the constituency of Kensington (London) had to be counted three times due to a tight majority. The Labor candidate won there with only 20 votes (0.05% of the total number of votes) ahead of her conservative competitor.

Nationwide result

A total of 46,843,896 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 68.7% and was thus slightly higher than the value in the last election (66.1%).

Map of the results in all 650 constituencies, see party colors. O.
Composition of the newly elected lower house:
Conservative 317 Democratic Unionist Party 10
 		Labor 262 Scottish National Party 35 Liberal Democrats 12 Plaid Cymru 4 Sinn Féin 7 * Green Party 1 Independent 1






Speaker 1
* The seven Sinn Féin MPs do not take their places in Westminster and are therefore not shown.
Political party Seats be right
number in % +/- number in % +/-%
Conservative party 318 48.9   13 13,667,213 42.4   5.5
Labor Party 262 40.3   30 12,874,985 40.0   9.5
Scottish National Party 35 5.4   21 977.569 3.0   1.7
Liberal Democrats 12 1.8   4 2,371,772 7.4   0.5
Democratic Unionist Party 10 1.5   2 292,316 0.9   0.3
Sinn Féin 7th 1.1   3 238.915 0.7   0.2
Plaid Cymru 4th 0.6   1 164,466 0.5   0.1
Green Party 1 1 0.2 0 525.371 1.6   2.1
Independent (Unionist) 1 0.2 0 16,148 0.1 0.0
UKIP 0 0.0   1 593,852 1.8   10.8
Social Democratic and Labor Party 0 0.0   3 95,419 0.3 0.0
Ulster Unionist Party 0 0.0   2 83,280 0.3   0.1
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 0 0.0 0 64,553 0.2 0.0
The Yorkshire Party 0 0.0 0 20,958 0.1 0.0
National Health Action 0 0.0 0 16,119 0.1 0.0
Christian Peoples Alliance 0 0.0 0 5,869 0.0 0.0
People Before Profit Alliance 0 0.0 0 5,509 0.0 0.0
British National Party 0 0.0 0 4,642 0.0 0.0
Monster Raving Loony Party 0 0.0 0 3,890 0.0 0.0
Women's Equality Party 0 0.0 0 3,580 0.0 0.0
Traditional Unionist Voice 0 0.0 0 3,282 0.0   0.1
Pirate party 0 0.0 0 2,321 0.0 0.0
English Democrats 0 0.0 0 1.913 0.0 0.0
Scottish Christian Party 0 0.0 0 1,720 0.0 0.0
Workers Revolutionary Party 0 0.0 0 771 0.0 0.0
Workers' Party of Ireland 0 0.0 0 708 0.0 0.0
Social Democratic Party 0 0.0 0 469 0.0 0.0
Other 0 0.0 0 159,308 0.5   0.2
total 650 100 32.196.918 100

1 This adds up the Green Party of England and Wales , Scottish Green Party and Green Party in Northern Ireland .

England

533 of the total of 650 constituencies were in England. 39,316,335 people were entitled to vote, of which 69.1% took part in the election. In England, Labor gained 21 constituencies while the Conservatives lost 22. Nick Clegg , the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, was defeated in the Sheffield Hallam constituency by the Labor candidate Jared O Mara . With Vince Cable , however, a prominent Liberal Democrat moved back into the House of Commons via the constituency of Twickenham after he lost his seat in 2015. On the balance sheet, the Liberal Democrats won two seats. Caroline Lucas , the only Green MP in the House of Commons, was able to win her constituency Brighton Pavillion again and received a record vote of 52.3 percent. Viewed nationwide, however, the Green Party's share of the vote fell significantly from 4.2 to 1.9%. The UK Independence Party lost more than four-fifths of its previous electoral votes, only came in at 2.1% (previously 12.1%) and did not win any constituencies. In Clacton constituency , which Douglas Carswell won in 2015 as a UKIP candidate with 44.4% of the vote (he left the party in 2017), the new UKIP candidate only got 7.6%.

Election results in England
Political party Seats be right
number in % +/- number in % +/-%
Conservative party 297 55.7   22 12,376,530 45.6   4.6
Labor Party 227 42.6   21 11,386,624 41.9   10.3
Liberal Democrats 8th 1.5   2 2,121,672 7.8   0.4
Green Party of England and Wales 1 0.2 0 506.905 1.9   2.3
UKIP 0 0.0   1 557.174 2.1   12.1
The Yorkshire Party 0 0.0 0 20,958 0.1   0.1
National Health Action 0 0.0 0 16,119 0.1 0.0
Christian Peoples Alliance 0 0.0 0 5,869 0.0 0.0
British National Party 0 0.0 0 4,642 0.0 0.0
Monster Raving Loony Party 0 0.0 0 3,733 0.0 0.0
Women's Equality Party 0 0.0 0 3,066 0.0 0.0
English Democrats 0 0.0 0 1.913 0.0 0.0
Pirate party 0 0.0 0 1,875 0.0 0.0
Workers Revolutionary Party 0 0.0 0 771 0.0 0.0
Social Democratic Party 0 0.0 0 321 0.0 0.0
Other 0 0.0 0 151.054 0.6   0.4
total 533 100 27.159.226 100

Scotland

In the last election in 2015, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won 56 of the 59 constituencies (94.9%). She couldn't repeat this result this time. With a gain of 35 constituencies (59.3%) it was again the strongest party in Scotland, but lost more than a third of its previous seats. Former First Minister and SNP party chairman Alex Salmond lost his constituency Gordon to his conservative rival candidate Colin Clark and the SNP parliamentary group chairman in Westminster Angus Robertson was defeated in his constituency in Moray to the conservative candidate Douglas Ross . The other big parties were able to regain ground in Scotland. The gains of the Conservatives (+12 constituencies) were clearest, but Labor (+6 constituencies) and the Liberal Democrats (+3 constituencies) also gained. The second independence referendum planned by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, which is not particularly popular even among SNP voters, was seen as the main cause of the large SNP losses .

66.4% of the 3,988,490 eligible voters took part in the vote.

Constituency results in Scotland
Political party Seats be right
number in % +/- number in % +/-%
Scottish National Party 35 59.3   21 977.569 36.9   13.1
Conservative party 13 22.0   12 757.949 28.6   13.7
Labor Party 7th 11.9   6 717.007 27.1   2.8
Liberal Democrats 4th 6.8   3 179,061 6.8   0.8
Scottish Green Party 0 0.0 0 5,886 0.2   1.1
UKIP 0 0.0 0 5,302 0.2   1.4
Scottish Christian Party 0 0.0 0 1,720 0.1  
Women's Equality Party 0 0.0 0 337 0.0 0.0
Independent Sovereign Democratic Britain 0 0.0 0 224 0.0 0.0
Something New 0 0.0 0 177 0.0 0.0
Social Democratic Party 0 0.0 0 148 0.0 0.0
Scotland's Independence Referendum Party 0 0.0 0 132 0.0 0.0
Independent 0 0.0 0 4.183 0.2   0.1
total 59 100 2,649,695 100

Wales

In Wales, Labor remained the dominant party, winning 28 of the 40 constituencies, winning three constituency seats from the Conservatives. The Welsh regional party Plaid Cymru won their previous three constituencies in a very close race (11,623 against 11,519 votes) the constituency of Ceredigion from the Liberal Democrats, who thus lost their last Welsh constituency.

Of the 2,296,373 eligible voters, 68.8% took part in the election.

Constituency results in Wales
Political party Seats be right
number in % +/- number in % +/-%
Labor Party 28 70.0   3 771.354 48.9   12.1
Conservative party 8th 20.0   3 528.839 33.6   6.3
Plaid Cymru 4th 10.0   1 164,466 10.4   1.7
Liberal Democrats 0 0.0   1 71,039 4.5   2.0
UKIP 0 0.0 0 31,376 2.0   11.6
Green Party of England and Wales 0 0.0 0 5,128 0.3   2.2
Pirate party 0 0.0 0 446 0.0 0.0
Women's Equality Party 0 0.0 0 177 0.0 0.0
Monster Raving Loony Party 0 0.0 0 157 0.0 0.0
Socialist Party of Great Britain 0 0.0 0 92 0.0 0.0
The New Society of Worth 0 0.0 0 31 0.0 0.0
Independent 0 0.0 0 2,709 0.2   0.1
total 40 100 1,575,814 100

Northern Ireland

There have been major shifts in Northern Ireland. While four parties made it into the lower house in the last election in 2015, this time there were only two, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin . The DUP won 10 and Sinn Féin 7 constituencies out of a total of 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland. Both parties achieved their historically best election result. The two more moderate unionist and republican parties UUP and SDLP lost all of their previous constituency mandates. The independent candidate Sylvia Hermon (formerly UUP) was able to maintain her constituency North Down . However, Sinn Féin MPs traditionally do not take their seats in Parliament in Westminster as they refuse to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown.

The number of eligible voters in Northern Ireland was 1,242,698 and the turnout was 65.4%.

Constituency results in Northern Ireland
Political party Seats be right
number in % +/- number in % +/-%
Democratic Unionist Party 10 55.6   2 292,316 36.0   10.3
Sinn Féin 7th 38.9   3 238.915 29.4   4.9
Social Democratic and Labor Party 0 0.0   3 95,419 11.7   2.2
Ulster Unionist Party 0 0.0   2 83,280 10.3   5.8
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 0 0.0 0 64,553 7.9   0.6
Independent (Unionist) 1 5.6 0 16,148 2.0   0.5
Green Party in Northern Ireland 0 0.0 0 7,452 0.9   0.1
People Before Profit Alliance 0 0.0 0 5,509 0.7   0.2
Conservative party 0 0.0 0 3,895 0.5   0.8
Traditional Unionist Voice 0 0.0 0 3,282 0.4   1.9
Workers' Party of Ireland 0 0.0 0 708 0.1   0.3
Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance 0 0.0 0 393 <0.1   0.2
Other 0 0.0 0 313 <0.1   1.0
total 18th 100 812.183 100

Evaluation and development after the election

The election result came as a surprise in several ways. On the one hand, the Prime Minister's calculation of gaining a solid parliamentary majority through the election and thus strengthening her government's position in the upcoming negotiations with the EU did not work out. While the Conservatives previously had a slim majority in the lower house, it was lost through the election, so that the government now depends on the support of other parties. Shortly after the election, the Prime Minister announced that her government would work together with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), but not in the form of a fixed coalition, but on the basis of substantive agreements (" Confidence and supply "). The chairman of the DUP, Arlene Foster , was rather reserved and declared immediately after the election that in her opinion it would be difficult for the Prime Minister to survive politically ( "difficult to survive" ). In terms of the program, the DUP is generally more to the right of the Conservative Party. It is first and foremost a Northern Irish party that has goals with regard to Northern Ireland. Here she takes an uncompromising unionist position. With regard to relations with the EU, the DUP was in favor of leaving the EU from the start, in contrast to the conservatives, who were divided on this issue for a long time. In contrast to the Prime Minister, however, the DUP is in favor of a soft Brexit with regard to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland . On social and societal issues, the DUP takes a much more conservative position and, for example, spoke out against same-sex marriage and in favor of stricter abortion law . The long-term prospects of an alliance between conservatives and the DUP were viewed rather critically by political commentators.

Because of the disappointing election result for the Conservatives, the Prime Minister came under considerable criticism. There was widespread opinion in the press that the election result was primarily due to the Prime Minister's uninspiring or even “catastrophic” campaign. Theresa May gambled away the conservatives' lead in opinion polls with her failed election campaign. Commentators largely agreed that the Prime Minister's position had been significantly weakened by the election result. Sometimes there was open speculation about her possible successor.

The Labor Party had gained significantly in votes and seats in a way that seemed unthinkable a month before the election date. This was partly attributed to the mobilization of younger voters, who felt drawn to some of the key election promises of the Labor campaign (including reducing tuition fees and ending austerity). Jeremy Corbyn asked Theresa May to resign. You have lost the election and is not able to form a stable government. The Labor Party is ready to take over government.

Criticism of the Prime Minister's leadership style was also voiced within the Conservative Party. Several senior consultants from her inner circle accused her that it was not possible in her environment to freely address the problems and that she did not treat her employees with sufficient respect. Your government team at No 10 Downing Street is "dysfunctional".

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Individual evidence

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