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6. Who can be seen as the father of conservatism?

  • Edmund Burke
  • Thomas Hobbes
  • Fredrich Engels
  • Karl Popper

7. What was the poll tax?

  • local council tax , taxed per head not on income
  • the richer you were the less tax you had to pay
  • income tax, based per head not per income
  • tax on goods was based on how many people lived in your house

8. What does David Cameron describe himself as?

  • a classical conservative
  • a liberal
  • a compassionate conservative
  • a compassionate classical liberal

9. Which conservative leader managed to get the Maastricht Treaty through parliament?

  • Ian Duncan-Smith
  • David Cameron
  • John Major
  • Benjamin Disraeli

10. Due to Thatchers monetarism, Inflation reduced from 15% in 1979 to what in 1986

  • 6.1%
  • 2.4%
  • 7%
  • 3.9%