[Commlist] Election 2019: The Brexit Campaign? conference

Loughborough University Centre for Research in Communication & Culture 
<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/general-election/>and Ipsos MORI 
<https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/general-election-2019>

in conjunction with the British Polling Council 
<http://www.britishpollingcouncil.org/>

present


*/Election 2019: The Brexit Campaign?/*


This General Election returned the first Conservative government with a 
large parliamentary majority for the first time in more than a 
generation. By contrast the campaign ended in disappointment for Labour 
and the Liberal Democrats and both parties are now seeking new leaders 
to help revive their respective fortunes. The Scottish National Party, 
the other main beneficiary from the 2019 campaign, are pressing for a 
further vote on independence from a UK set to leave the European Union. 
The issue of the EU has loomed large in British politics for decades but 
to what extent was this election dominated by Boris Johnson and his ‘Get 
Brexit Done’ mantra? Conversely how did the various opposition parties 
reflect or challenge this narrative in their own campaigning? Arising 
from this which topics and personalities were most prominent (or not) in 
the reporting of the election? And what mattered most to voters and how 
did they perceive the rival campaigns?


This day conference will consider the above and other related questions 
by revisiting and reconsidering the 2019 election with analysis from 
practitioners and academics. It is the latest in a series of electoral 
post-mortems, one of which has been held after every UK General Election 
since 1979. That first event led to the inaugural /Political 
Communications/book, a now ten volume collection that has featured 
contributions from numerous political, media and polling practitioners 
as well as academics. The most recent addition to the series on 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030008215>the 2017 election is 
available from Palgrave Macmillan 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030008215>and was co-edited (with 
Roger Mortimore) by the organisers of this event, Simon Atkinson of 
Ipsos MORI and Dominic Wring of Loughborough University’s Centre for 
Research in Communication & Culture.


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Confirmed participants include: Adam Baxter (Ofcom) Tara Beard-Knowland 
(Ipsos MORI) John Curtice (Univ of Strathclyde) David Deacon 
(Loughborough Univ) Isla Glaister (Sky News) Nick Moon (Moonlight 
Research) Ben Page (Ipsos MORI) Anthony Wells (YouGov) and more to be 
confirmed. Further details including the latest speakers and schedule 
for the day will be posted to the same link where you can also reserve 
your ticket for this event 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-2019-the-brexit-campaign-tickets-89557481839>your 
ticket for this event 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-2019-the-brexit-campaign-tickets-89557481839>. 
Please book as soon as possible as places are limited and on a first 
come first served basis.


Venue Loughborough University London Campus, Queen Elizabeth Olympic 
Park, Stratford E20 3BS 
<https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/about/location/find-us/>

10am-6pm, Friday 31st January 2020


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