Legislative Election in the United Kingdom (2001)

A significant impact on the elections was exerted by the foot and mouth disease epidemic that broke out in the UK in 2001 , thanks to which considerable attention was paid to health and agriculture. In addition, due to the epidemic, elections were postponed from May to June.

In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement and the related polarization of the electorate sentiment had a significant impact on the election results. The moderate Ulster Unionist Party significantly lost voter support in favor of the Democratic Unionist Party , which opposed the agreement. At the same time, support for Sinn Fein increased, which also affected the election results.

• Before the election, the Labor Party emphasized the importance of its achievements: reducing inflation, unemployment and crime, increasing the number of nurses in the national health system and improving the education system ^[1] . Labor intended to continue the modernization of Great Britain and create conditions to ensure a decent life for all working people, regardless of their origin ^[1] . The Laborites outlined ten key goals for 2010 : economic stability, improving living standards for all, improving higher education, improving the health care system, eliminating unemployment everywhere, achieving equal opportunities for all children and ensuring security for all senior citizens, modernizing the fight against crime, and increasing empowerment self-government bodies, ensuring a worthy place in an enlarged reformed Europe, as well as addressing the problems of global poverty and climate change ^[1] .
• The Conservative Party has concentrated its campaign promises around the priority of traditional national and family values ​​and their provision. The slogan of the conservative program was the phrase “It's time for common sense”, which is repeated 13 times in the conservative program ^[2] . Conservatives promised to reduce taxes for families, support marriages, and improve the education system ^[2] . They also planned to reduce taxes and make the tax system more transparent, cutting inefficient costs and reforming some areas to stabilize the budget ^[2] . The conservatives also planned to support the pound sterling to ensure economic stability, increase funding for the national health system, increase pensions, and redistribute powers in favor of local governments ^[2] . Conservatives also argued that Labor’s anti-crime measures were ineffective, since during the leadership of their country, the crime rate in the country grew by 15% ^[2] , while Labor claimed that they managed to reduce crime by 10% ^{[1 ]} . Conservatives sought greater flexibility in the European Union and considered it necessary to achieve the achievement of a global free trade system by 2020 .
• Liberal Democrats in their election manifesto “Freedom, Justice, Honesty” focused their election program on the issues of reducing the influence of bureaucracy on the economy and public life, liberalizing economic life, promoting small business and fighting monopolies (primarily gas, water and electricity), introducing new technologies, improving the situation of the poor and increasing pensions, reducing crime, developing education and health and promoting fertility. In particular, liberal democrats promised to fight the regulation and high taxation of small businesses, while reducing the influence of monopolies, make efforts to create a knowledge economy through the development of science and the widespread implementation of its achievements, fight for the observance and expansion of consumer rights, and prohibit mandatory retirement by voluntary opportunity to continue work, as well as to upgrade the transport network ^[3] . Liberal Democrats also proposed that voters gradually abandon nuclear energy, as they develop their nuclear power resources, develop alternative energy sources, commission 1% of the country's energy consumption annually, and promise to introduce a pollution tax and ban the production of the most toxic chemicals in the UK ^{[ 3]} . In relations with the European Union, liberal democrats called for its expansion, for the liberalization of institutions of power and for the constitutional formation of the European Union ^[3] . In addition, liberal democrats proposed a draft political reform, according to which it was supposed to reform the electoral system, increase the accountability of the government to parliament and increase the powers of local authorities (including in the national suburbs) ^[3] .

• Labor Campaign Program
• Conservative Election Program
• Liberal Democrats Election Program