The Conservative Party
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- Created on: 21-08-20 17:58
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- The Conservative Party
- Fractions
- Thatcherite/ Conservative way forward
- Belief in free markets, small state and freeedom.
- Began with Margaret Thatcher after she was elected in 1975, when Britain was in economic turmoil
- Electoral success: 1979: 43 maj 1983: 144 maj 1987: 102 maj
- One-Nation Conservative
- Emphasises social obligation and paternalism
- Benjamin Disraeli the architect of One-Nation conservativsm passed the 1832 reform act. Harold Macmillian created the middle way when he served as PM between 1957-1963. 2017 was an electoral failure with the social care policy where people use their house to pay for their treatment deeply unpoular. Boris Johnsons one nation government won a majority of 65
- Thatcherite/ Conservative way forward
- Policies
- Economy
- Thatcher: *Supported Radical privatisation agenda - British Gas 1986 *Wealth creation and supporting entreapeanours - Reduced the basic rate of tax to 25%
- Harold Macmillan full employment
- Foreign Policy
- Thatcher: Primarily focused on the UK and the cold war was left to America Single European Act (1986) brought the EEC closer together
- Disraeli refused to reimplement the repealed corn laws in 1846 which placed tarrifs on imports on corn to relieve the effects odf the
- Constitution
- Thatcher: Passes the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act which gave the police all new powers such as stop and search
- Law and Order
- Thatcher: Passes the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act which gave the police all new powers such as stop and search
- Thatcher: Gave police additional funding and did not cut police numbers
- Believes the state should not seek to repress the individual hence why Churchill opposed identity cards during WW2
- Welfare
- Thatcher: Right to buy scheme reduced the supply of housing
- Benjamin Disraeli passed the 1875 Public Health Act to help limit the spread of typhoid and cholera
- Economy
- On Political right reject idea of collectivism and seeks to limit the role of state.
- Fractions
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