General Election 2024—employment pledge and policy tracker [Archived]

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Practice notes

General Election 2024—employment pledge and policy tracker [Archived]

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Published by a LexisNexis Employment expert

Practice notes
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This archived Practice Note sets out the employment law pledges and policy statements from the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats in advance of the General Election on 4 July 2024.

The employment-related policies and pledges are set out in tables by topic.

Links to the manifestos of other political parties are provided for reference—see: Other parties' manifestos, below.

Parliamentary process

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, requested and received permission from the King to dissolve Parliament and called for a general election to be held on 4 July 2024. Parliament was therefore prorogued on 24 May 2024, and dissolved on 30 May 2024.

The parliamentary process timeline is as follows:

DateEvent
22 MayPM requested the King to exercise prerogative power to dissolve Parliament
22 MayKing Charles agreed to request and announcement of general election is made to the country
23 May‘Wash-up’ period begins
24 MayParliament is prorogued
25 MayPre-election period of sensitivity begins (formerly referred to as ‘purdah’)
30 MayParliament is dissolved
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