The 2019 United Kingdom general election was called by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after Parliament had repeatedly blocked his attempts to leave the European Union, to get a mandate for his Brexit deal. He campaigned under the slogan Get Brexit Done, and the Conservatives won a majority of eighty seats, their largest in decades. The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn lost many seats in its traditional heartlands in the north of England and the Midlands, and had its worst result since the 1930s. The Scottish National Party made major gains in Scotland. The result made it possible for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in January 2020.
Before and after
- 5 November 2019Founding of Paris-Saclay University
- 12 November 2019Disney+
- from 15 November 2019 to 5 May 2023COVID-19 pandemic
- 15 November 2019COVID-19 pandemic in China
- 12 December 20192019 United Kingdom general election
- from 14 December 2019 to 16 February 2020Premiere of Crash Landing on You
- from 19 December 2019 to 6 March 2020Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019 – March 2020)
- 2020Introduction of Solana
- c. 2020sPrelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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