Conservative policies/ideas (current)
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- Created on: 21-12-18 19:57
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- Conservative policies/ideas (current)
- Economy
- Goal of balanced budget abandoned in 2016 as a medium-term goal
- Belief only a balanced budget can promote economic growth
- Instead public expenditure kept under control
- Promote free markets and free trade
- Company taxation should never be too high
- Otherwise inhibit enterprise and wealth creation
- Also recognise taxation on lower incomes is too high
- Burden of tax shifted onto middle income groups
- Goal of balanced budget abandoned in 2016 as a medium-term goal
- Law and order
- Prison and stern punishments are the best deterrent against crime
- Sentencing policy should be in the hands of elected government, not unelected judges
- Opposes proposals like legalisation of drugs and excessive use of community sentences
- First duty of government is to protect citizens
- Civil liberties may have to be sacrificed in the interests of security against terrorism
- Welfare
- Generous 'living wage'
- NHS and education systems should be subject to competition and market forces
- Private sector enterprises should become involved in the provision of services to improve efficiency without increasing expenditure
- Ensure that welfare benefits are no longer a disincentive to work
- Foreign policy
- Support NATO and close alliance with USA
- Retaining an independent foreign policy is in the national interest
- UK should intervene in foreign conflicts if it's in the national interest
- Retain the UK's independent nuclear deterrent in the form of trident submarine-based weapons
- Retain generous contributions to international aid
- Environment
- More effective emissions control
- Promoted renewable energy sources (prefers nuclear to wind)
- Social justice
- Understands that too much inequality breeds social conflict
- Introduce living wage and reduce income tax for those on low incomes
- Resisted imposing high tax rates on the wealthy
- Constitution
- Reluctant to reform
- Effectively blocked reform of the House of Lords and the electoral system
- Unionist - opposes policies that could promote independence movements in the UK's regions
- Economy
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