Background to the campaign : from confidence and supply to the oven-ready deal / Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimore, and Simon Atkinson -- A Brexit election? / John Curtice -- I. Campaigning -- Reaching the right people : the conservatives / Lord Hayward -- No time for real change : Labour / Rory Macqueen -- 'Time to choose our future' : the SNP / Erik Geddes -- An alternative voice : the Liberal Democrats / James Gurling -- "Me and Brexit, or nothing" : a French perspective on Boris Johnson's victory / Sonia Delesalle-Stolper / 'Water dripping on a stone' : Topham Guerin and the Tory digital strategy / Nathan Ritchie -- "Strategic lying" : or how the Conservatives dominated the campaign news agenda / Ivor Gaber and Caroline Fisher -- II. Media -- Knocking copy : how the national press covered the campaign / Dominic Wring, David Deacon, and David Smith -- Reporting the digital campaign : online news coverage of the 2019 UK general election by Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post / Emily Harmer and Rosalynd Southern -- The role of alternative online political media in the 2019 general election / Declan McDowell-Naylor, Stephen Cushion, and Richard Thomas -- Consternation bias : debates, tv inquisitions and impartiality in a changing electoral era / Ric Bailey -- Path to power : the Brexit election / Isla Glaister -- Of empty chairs- and ice sculptures : regulating broadcasting during the 2019 general election⁠—the Ofcom perspective / Adam baxter -- III. Polling -- Understanding he vote and the voters : Ipsos MORI'S polling in 2019 / Ben Page and Cameron Garrett -- The other election 'winners' :polling and the pollsters / Roger Mortimore -- Social media and the UK general election 2019 / Tara Beard-Knowland -- Exit polling : a brief history / Nick Moon -- From media to social media : opinion polling in the current context / Anthony Wells -- Is the Conservative lead growing? Is a hung parliament possible? What can we believe? How a partisan press reported the polls / Murray Goot.