{"id":103463,"date":"2017-05-22T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=103463"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T10:20:46","slug":"vuelio-general-election-briefing-22nd-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/vuelio-general-election-briefing-22nd-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuelio General Election Briefing 22nd May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This week saw the three main UK-wide parties launch their manifestos, and the first votes being cast, as postal voters receive their ballot papers. It\u2019s also seen a surprising turn around in the opinion polling, with Labour seemingly narrowing the gap on the Conservatives. Today has also seen a dramatic U-turn from the Conservatives on the so called &#8221;dementia tax&#8221;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick summary of what happened last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Conservatives, Lib-Dems and Labour launched their manifestos and postal voting began<\/li>\n<li>The Conservatives saw a drop in support in opinion polls, something party figures are attributing to policies such as the \u00a0\u2018\u2019dementia tax\u2019\u2019<\/li>\n<li>The first leader\u2019s debate was held \u2013 with notable absences from Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn<\/li>\n<li>As the graph below shows, the &#8221;dementia tax&#8221; has started picking up traction on social media after a weekend where the phrase was used across the Sunday political shows by opposition parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dementia-tac.png\" alt=\"dementia tac\" width=\"503\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dementia-tac.png 503w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dementia-tac-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dementia-tac-450x361.png 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/dementia-tac-500x401.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/email.vuelio.com\/political-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to Vuelio Political Updates here to receive the full General Election Briefing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week saw the three main UK-wide parties launch their manifestos, and the first votes being cast, as postal voters receive their ballot papers. It\u2019s also seen a surprising turn around in the opinion polling, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":102948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105442,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103463\/revisions\/105442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}