Laurence Speight: Fish don't vote, and factors that may affect political outcomes
In the UK general election – along with the other 92 general, presidential and mayoral elections that will be conducted worldwide this year – the call made by the competing parties and independent candidates was that to vote for them is to vote for change. This was the mantra across the UK political spectrum, inclusive of the SDLP and the UUP, the UK Labour Party and the Reform Party led by Nigel Farage.