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Pre-election day events of the 2005 United Kingdom general election

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chances of winning or if they wished to benefit from a period of weak support for the opposition. It was thus usual practice for Prime Ministers to "go to the country for a renewed mandate" (call a general election) some time after the fourth anniversary of the previous election. The Prime Minister's announcement on 5 April 2005 that the election would be held on 5 May 2005 meant that the government would be returning to the poll slightly under four years into the parliamentary term, although the previous election had been delayed by a month to take account of the
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not happen as the present Parliament will be dissolved on 11 April (it is a formality that Parliament is not prorogued without setting a time when it will meet again). In practice the new Parliament will be summoned on 11 May for the election of a Speaker and the swearing-in of Members, and will be formally opened on 17 May by the Queen.
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ten days later on 17 March 2003, which stated that military action would be lawful, with no similar caveats. They speculated that the Attorney-General had been pressured by the Prime Minister to change his mind. The government denied that the Attorney-General had changed his views, stating that what
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The last session of Parliament was prorogued by the Lords Commissioners on behalf of the Queen on 7 April, after Royal Assent had been given to all the Acts passed in the last few days of the Parliament. The prorogation stated that a new session would be opened on 14 April but in practice this will
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was held on 7 June 2001, another election was not required until 7 June 2006. However, governments with safe majorities in the House of Commons sometimes called elections early when seeking a mandate for a change in policy, if they feared that holding the election later would adversely affect their
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The below were not official targeted seats (no major party has ever published its list of targets – nor are any of them likely to: it would give away information to their opponents) but were based on the results of the 2001 election; the seats listed are the ones in which the respective party came
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In the run-up to the election, the Labour Party circulated posters it was considering using in the campaign to the subscribers of its email contact list. One of these, which was intended to support Labour accusations that the Conservatives had not fully costed their economic policies, featured the
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to make the formal announcement of the calling of the election. With the session of Parliament being shortened, the government needed the co-operation of the opposition parties in order to pass its legislation. This meant that many Bills under review were scrapped, including national
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Working Party on Electoral Procedures, the government with the support of the other parties changed the law so that applicants for a postal vote no longer had to state a reason why they were unable to vote in person, so making postal voting available "on demand".
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in 2011, the dates for general elections in the United Kingdom were not fixed, being instead set by the government with a minimum notice of 17 working days, the length of a general election campaign. The only legal limitation, under the
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was published in full. Opponents of the war had campaigned for the advice to be made public for some time, with many speculating that the government's reluctance to do so indicated that Goldsmith had advised that war would be illegal.
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Blair played down the importance of the advice's publication, remarking "This so-called smoking gun has turned out to be a damp squib", as it affirmed the legality of military action. Opponents of the Iraq war including
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Another prominent feature of the pre-campaign was what journalists dubbed 'The Battle of Margaret's Shoulder', in which the Conservatives highlighted the case of Margaret Dixon, a
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Mawrey stated that he found the system of postal voting to be insecure, and expressed his concerns about whether the government was intending to prevent fraud.
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The programme attracted 4.1 million viewers. One common issue for all three leaders was the war in Iraq, though all three discussed other topics as well.
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programme. Each faced half an hour of questions from the audience in turn, but did not engage in direct debate with each other; while Conservative leader
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second, ranked by the percentage margin by which they lost. In general, actual target seats are determined by more recent election results such as the
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On the day of the election, it was reported that up to several hundred voters' details had been accidentally deleted from the electoral register in
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were carried out almost every day during the election campaign and were reported by all the news media. The following lists opinion polls taken.
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The period immediately before the 2005 general election has seen increased concern about the integrity of the electoral system in Britain.
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with a watch on a chain, and the caption "I can spend the same money twice"; this was seen by some Conservatives as a depiction of either
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on 2 April the announcement was delayed by a day as a mark of respect. Instead of campaigning (as was presumably originally planned),
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ministers, adding to the speculation surrounding the 5 May date. The date was suggested on 24 November 2004 by the British newspaper
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to continue the firms' strategic alliance and buy Rover out. However, talks were unsuccessful and on 12 April the administrators,
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was passed but with a restriction that permits only one to go ahead, instead of the eight that had most recently been proposed.
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launch was delayed when Kennedy's wife, Sarah, went into hospital on 11 April. The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir
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constituency, was forced to apologise for the manipulation of a photograph from a rally campaigning against the deportation of
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to see patients. This last issue in particular was dealt with in more detail during campaigning over the following days.
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slogan "the day the Tory sums add up" together with images of flying pigs featuring the faces of the Conservative leader
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These are the activities that were undertaken by the candidates and their political parties in the lead up to the
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The date of the general election had been trailed by the news media for weeks. On 5 April 2005, Blair went to
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had happened was that the circumstances outlined on 7 March which would make war legal had in fact occurred.
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for the dissolution of Parliament. The announcement had been expected on 4 April but following the death of
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and the opposition party for help, who readily seized the opportunity to highlight a failing of the
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has been permitted in United Kingdom elections since 1918. In 2001, after a recommendation by the
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in campaign literature without the permission of the sailors (both of whom support Labour).
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Not an opinion poll but a calculation based on the results of local authority by-elections
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aired the following day in Wales and Scotland, with the same format, where the leaders of
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pensioner whose shoulder operation had been cancelled seven times. She had written to the
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The election was announced on 5 April 2005 and the election was held on 5 May 2005.
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Conservative and (to a lesser extent) Labour MPs in potentially vulnerable seats.
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On 1 May it was announced that Jo Harrison, the Liberal Democrat candidate for
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On 28 April the leaders of the three main political parties appeared on the
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Normal convention dictates that the Prime Minister visits the Sovereign at
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The real situation was complicated. Lord Goldsmith had concluded that
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Graph showing the averaged results of polls leading up to the election
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The Liberal Democrats pursued a "decapitation" strategy, targeting
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from the 2004 local elections there void by reason of "widespread
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about her situation, but he had not replied, and so she looked to
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After the summary of the document was comprehensively leaked to
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printed extracts from a tape recording made at a meeting of the
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Campaign events between date of announcement and election day
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Restricted to those who said they were "certain to vote"
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The programme's format was agreed upon as a compromise.
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Events around the announcement of the general election
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Publication of Attorney General's Advice on Iraq War
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