Conservative Party
Political party in the United Kingdom
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| 2024 | Susan Hall ran as the Conservative candidate for London Mayor under Rishi Sunak's leadership, securing 32.7% of the vote and finishing 2nd. |
| 2024 | During the General Election campaign, the Conservative Party pledged an additional £20m of Levelling Up funding for 30 towns, with local community boards to decide spending. |
| 2024 | Sadiq Khan wins a third successive term as London Mayor, with the election now using the first past the post voting system. |
| 2024 | Labour Party continued its electoral success, winning 11 seats in the London Assembly election. |
| 2024 | In the United Kingdom General election, Labour's long-standing position as the second largest party underwent a significant change. |
| 2024 | Mike Gilbert stood again in the Boston and Skegness general election, receiving 1% of the vote but failing to win the seat. |
| 2024 | The UK Conservative Party criticized Labour leader Keir Starmer for taking Friday evenings off to observe Shabbat with his Jewish wife, Victoria Starmer, suggesting he would be a 'part-time prime minister'. Jewish Labour supporters defended Starmer, condemning the attack. |
| 2024 | Implemented a ban on smoking for future generations, with a strategic goal of making England smoke-free by 2030. |
| 2024 | The Conservative Party faces significant electoral challenges and declining popularity in preparation for the upcoming general election. |
| 2024 | The Conservative Party was defeated by Labour in the general election, becoming the Official Opposition in the House of Commons. |
| July 2024 | Labour wins a landslide victory in the general election and subsequently announces the renaming of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities back to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. |
| July 4 2024 | The 2024 general election took place, resulting in the Conservative Party's lowest seat total in its history. Rishi Sunak was defeated and resigned. |
| July 4 2024 | Kemi Badenoch became the Conservative Party leader following Sunak's defeat and resignation. |
| May 22 2024 | Rishi Sunak announced a general election to be held on 4 July 2024. |
| April 2024 | Labour Party announces plans to scrap the 'levelling up' slogan if they come to power. |
| April 2024 | Michael Gove stated 2030 should be the reference point for judging the implementation of the Levelling Up policy. |
| 2023 | Four of the five original councillors were deselected by the Poole Conservative Association for the election, but successfully appealed their deselection. |
| 2023 | The Poole Engage Party stood 16 candidates in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council election, with only two candidates (Judes Butt in Creekmoor and Julie Bagwell in Hamworthy) being re-elected. |
| 2023 | Voting system for combined authority elections changes from supplementary vote to first past the post system. |
| 2023 | Susan Coleman became National Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2023 | In the Boston Borough Council election, Mike Gilbert gained one councillor seat in Staniland Ward, marking the party's first electoral success. |
| 2023 | University of York Conservative and Unionist Association elected a new committee for the 2023-2024 academic year, with Jeremy Hehir serving as Chairman and key leadership roles filled by Rachel Abratt, E.R. Waters, Luke Draper, Connor Fox, and John Resco. |
| 2023 | At the National Conservatism Conference in London, Conservative MP Miriam Cates gave a speech using the term 'cultural Marxism', which the government's antisemitism advisor John Mann criticized as antisemitic. |
| 2023 | Launch of New Conservatives group by mostly 'red wall' MPs, representing a new internal faction within the Conservative Party. |
| 2023 | Serious allegations emerged of multiple rape cases against an unnamed Tory MP, with Baroness Warsi publicly highlighting the party's systemic issues in handling sexual misconduct complaints. |
| May 2023 | Conservative Friends of Palestine was officially founded, aimed at providing balanced information about Palestine and Israel to parliamentarians. The group was welcomed by Ben Jamal, Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. |
| March 23 2023 | The Conservatives face criticism when Lee Anderson was suspended for claiming London's mayor Sadiq Khan was controlled by 'Islamists', raising further concerns about potential antisemitic and islamophobic rhetoric within the party. |
| January 11 2023 | Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative Party after tweeting a controversial comparison of COVID-19 vaccine safety to the Holocaust, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned as 'utterly unacceptable'. |
| 2022 | Conservative Party did not contest the Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. |
| 2022 | Neeti Gupta became National Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2022 | Aphra Brandreth became National Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2022 | Pamela Hall became National Chairman of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2022 | Eve Burt became National President of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2022 | Janet Parrott became National Treasurer of the Conservative Women's Organisation |
| 2022 | Plans to hold a dinner with Desmond Swayne were halted after the YUSU BAME Network condemned the event, citing concerns about Swayne's comments supporting blackface and potentially creating a hostile environment for BAME students. |
| 2022 | Ahead of local elections, the Jewish Representative Council raised concerns about antisemitic social media comments by Conservative Party candidates in Bury. The local Association suspended two candidates (Sham Raja Akhtar and Shafqat Mahmood) and suspended Shadman Zaman for refusing to delete pro-Israel posts. |
| 2022 | During the Conservative Party leadership election, Liz Truss made a speech praising the Jewish community, which was simultaneously accused of antisemitism by several commentators, including the president of the Union of Jewish Students, senior rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality. |
| 2022 | Good Law Project investigation finds the Conservatives have accepted at least £243,000 from Russia and Kremlin-associated donors since the start of the Ukraine war. |
| 2022 | The previous grass-roots Conservative Friends of Palestine group disbanded. |
| December 2022 | The Poole Local Group rebranded and changed its name to the Poole Engage Party, marking a significant transformation in the local political group's identity. |
| November 25 2022 | Kemi Badenoch is appointed as Minister of State for Equalities and joined the Cabinet, representing a significant moment for diversity in the Conservative Party leadership. |
| October 2022 | Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister and remained committed to Levelling Up, delivering the second phase of the Levelling-Up Fund totalling £2.1bn and reallocating HS2 funding to local transport networks. |
| October 2022 | Keir Starmer, Labour Party leader, comments on levelling up, stating that a future Labour government would continue the challenge while criticizing Johnson's implementation as 'an empty slogan'. |
| October 25 2022 | Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister, replacing Liz Truss after her brief and turbulent leadership, becoming the first British Asian to hold the office. |
| October 24 2022 | Rishi Sunak became the first British Asian Leader of the Conservative Party and the first British Asian Prime Minister. |
| October 20 2022 | Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 45 days in office, the shortest tenure in British political history. |
| September 2022 | Liz Truss became Prime Minister, creating uncertainty around the Levelling Up policy's future. |
| September 23 2022 | Truss introduces her mini-budget, which faces severe criticism. The pound falls to a record low of 1.03 against the dollar, and UK government gilt yields rise to 4.3 per cent, forcing the Bank of England to trigger an emergency bond-buying programme. |
| September 6 2022 | Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, succeeding Boris Johnson, though her tenure is notably short. |
| September 5 2022 | Liz Truss confirmed as Boris Johnson's successor as Conservative Party leader following a leadership election. |
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