10.2 Later one-nation conservatism Flashcards
Who is later one-nation conservatism mostly associated with?
Harold Macmillan
What role did Macmillan have under Churchill?
Housing minister
How many houses were built every year when Macmillan was housing minister?
300,000
What did Macmillan hope to create?
‘A property-owning democracy’ - sympathetic to traditional conservative values
When Macmillan was PM from 1957 to 1963, what type of economics did his government follow?
A mix of laissez-faire economics and the socialist collectivism
What did Macmillan agree with Burke on?
That preserving society was of paramount importance
What Burke idea did Macmillan reject?
Empiricism
What did Macmillan choose instead of empiricism?
The rationalistic ideas of economist John Maynard Keynes
Who disagreed with Macmillan’s style of conservatism?
Michael Oakeshott
What have conservative governments supported since 1970?
The legalisation of both homosexuality and abortion
