I'm using a new ThinkPad E495 laptop with a "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" and Xubuntu 18.04.4 with the current HWE kernel "5.3.0-28-generic" and I had a similar issue. In my particular case, installing xserver-xorg- input-synaptics-hwe-18.04 returned normal function to the TouchPad.
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