"It is an honour for me to be here today to invite you to the Conservative ......"

Margaret Thatcher took centre stage and spoke elegantly and appropriately, and at the age of 53, she had already served as Secretary of State for Education and Science and became leader of the Conservative Party in 1975.

Xia Yu listened to Margaret's speech quietly in the demotion, and applauded from time to time.

After the speech, Margaret began to explain to those present about the Conservative Party's governing policy, and discussed in detail the benefits of the Conservative Party's policy to Britain and to the capitalists who were invited.

Xia Yu glanced at Elena beside her, and looked at the radiant Margaret on the stage at this time, with a strange light in her beautiful eyes.

"Margaret's personality is really strong, Elena has been affected, and I don't know if it's good or bad......"

Xia Yu said secretly in his heart.

Margaret's personal charm is undoubted, Xia Yu is not touting her, you must know that in her previous life, Margaret was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, and she was elected as the British Prime Minister for three consecutive terms, from 1979 to 1990, and then failed to continue the legend because she failed to defeat her opponent Michael Hersetin.

In the past, Britain voted the 100 greatest Englishmen in history, and Margaret Thatcher was ranked 16th.

Margaret Thatcher's speech was still ongoing, and after talking about the governing policy, she focused on the current situation in the Conservative Party in the general election.

Parliament is the center stage of British politics and is the highest legislative body in the United Kingdom. The government is elected from the parliament and is accountable to it.

The British Parliament is bicameral and consists of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

Among them, the House of Commons has more powers than the House of Lords.

The House of Lords, known as the House of Lords, is mainly composed of royal descendants, hereditary nobles, newly feuded nobles, judges of the Court of Appeal, and important figures of the Church, and the members of the House of Lords are not elected.

The most prominent power of the House of Lords is the judicial power left over from history, so it is the highest judicial body in the United Kingdom.

The House of Commons, also known as the House of Commons or the House of Representatives, is a five-year term of office for its members who are directly elected, and whose main functions and powers are to legislate, supervise finances and government.

The country is divided into electoral districts with essentially the same number of voters, each electing a member of the House of Commons. Most constituencies are members of a political party, but people without a political party background can also participate in elections.

At this time, the United Kingdom has a total of 650 constituencies, corresponding to 650 seats in the House of Commons.

If you understand the British House of Commons system, you can see that the British Prime Minister is not directly elected, and the British general election is actually to elect a new House of Commons.

When a political party has more than 50% of the total number of members of the hospital in the current house, the party is the ruling party, and the leader of the party is appointed by the Queen of England as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and is responsible for forming the cabinet.

If the party with the largest number of seats does not have more than 50% of the seats, then it will have to form a coalition cabinet with the other parties, and it is up to each party to negotiate how to do so or with whom.

But one thing is certain, a coalition cabinet, even as a British prime minister, is lame, and many times will be tied.

At this time, the 650 regional parliamentary elections have reached a climax, and some of the Conservatives' traditional constituencies have already made their mark, and now the Conservatives have won 172 seats, 183 short of half of the 325 seats.

And the Labour Party is not much worse, having won 169 seats, and this result is still in the face of a bad reputation, because the current prime minister is from the Labour Party, and has chosen a favorable time to start the House of Commons race, which is the advantage of the current ruling party.

As for the Liberal Democrats?

After coming to power from 1916 to 1922, it was never in power again, so the Conservative Party and the Labour Party had divided most of the power, and it had collapsed, winning only 32 seats at this time, which was pitifully small.

Because the Conservative and Labour parties have about the same number of seats, competition is fierce for uncontested areas, with both sides constantly increasing their media exposure, explaining to voters the merits of their campaign approach and lashing out at each other.

In addition, the Conservative Party and the Labour Party have also started the cash-burning mode, constantly holding political events to show off and build momentum.

All this is done for one purpose, and that is the votes in the hands of the voters!

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Soon, Margaret Thatcher finished her speech, and the fundraising phase officially began.

Because it is a political donation, there must be a lot of people who will appeal later, so it is not anonymous, and the Conservative Party has a special table and people who are responsible for collecting and registering.

Xia Yu saw that some people had already walked over there and started to register donations.

He wasn't in a hurry, but chatted with Gerard Pat.

If memory serves, Gerard Pat did manage to become the mayor of London, and investing in him at a time when he was not yet fully on the rise was a good choice.

After all, the mayor of London is already a high-level member of the British government, and if he has an iron relationship with Gerard Pat, Hong Kong Governor MacLehose's threat to Xia Yu will be greatly weakened.

In particular, the appointment power of the top leaders of the major departments of the Hong Kong government is in the hands of the British government, and there are many places that can be operated and influenced.

"Mr. Gerrard, I have been following the election campaign in London, and Labour's Nick Kisson is no match for you, although he has a little more vote now, so I congratulate you in advance on your success. ”

Xia Yu said with a smile.

Gerard Pat smiled faintly and said: "Thank you, but the influence of the Labour Party in London is very large, although I am confident, but the result is not until the end, everything is still unknown." ”

Duke Carter Howard, who was on the side, suddenly smiled and said to Gerald Pat: "Gerald, now your vote rate is a little lower than Nick Keison, but with the help of Mr. Xia, I believe you have a good chance to defeat him in advance." ”

Hearing Duke Carter Howard say this, Gerald Pat was no longer indifferent, his heart moved, he looked at Duke Carter Howard, and then looked at Xia Yu with a smile on his face, and a question appeared on his face.

He didn't know the details of Xia Yu, Duke Carter Howard just introduced that Xia Yu was from Xiangjiang, or a friend of the Howard family, the boss of his daughter Elena, and just learned that he bought the Financial Times Group from Pearson, but now that Duke Carter Howard said so, there must be a reason for him.

Just when Gerard Pat was speculating, Duke Carter Howard explained his doubts: "Gerald, Mr. Xia has the reputation of the god of Hong Kong stocks, and the Bright Fund he manages is not only the majority shareholder of China Commercial Bank, but also owns the Financial Times Group and the Daily Telegraph. ”

As soon as these words came out, Gerald Pat was shocked and looked at Xia Yu solemnly.

"Mr. Xia, I remember that the boss of the Daily Telegraph is Black, right?"

"That was before, not long ago I just bought the Daily Telegraph, maybe it's too short a time to get the news out yet. ”

Xia Yu explained with a light smile.

Although Xia Yu said it easily, Gerald Pat had to change his mentality at this time.

The acquisition of the Financial Times Group and the acquisition of the Daily Telegraph shows that Xia Yu has strong financial resources and a proper big benefactor.

And compared to money, he attaches more importance to the "Daily Telegraph" and "Financial Times", with these two top British newspapers in hand, Xia Yu can be said to be a media boss, and in this critical period, the role of propaganda channels is too great.

If these two newspapers keep giving him publicity, he is absolutely confident that he can beat Nick Keeson.

Duke Carter Howard is right, if Xia Yu is willing to help him, he is definitely very likely to win early.

PS: I wish you all a happy holiday! By the way, I will ask for a recommended ticket at the beginning of the month!