The get together's very first non-Brexit-linked policy was introduced on 4 June 2019: a proposition to rework British Metal right into a partly worker-owned organization, in what was described as "a hybrid of Conservative and Labour coverage".[191] The social gathering also supported reducing Britain's foreign aid budget, scrapping the proposed HS2

The initial UKIP MP, Tory defector Douglas Carswell, believes his individual 2014 victory in Clacton, Essex, was the “1st straw within the wind” of voter disenchantment that afterwards brought Brexit, the autumn of Labour’s “purple wall” seats while in the Midlands and north on the Tories in 2019, and in many cases this week’s Labour’