2.2e Ideas and Policies of UK Parties Flashcards
Conservative Ideas & Policies: Law and Order
Investing to modernise prisons.
Restructuring the police force.
Limiting stop and search.
Conservative Ideas & Policies: Economy
Increase higher tax rate to £50,000.
Increase personal allowance (tax-free earnings).
Cut corporation tax.
Conservative Ideas & Policies: Welfare
Ending triple lock on pensions (pensions rise by inflation, wages, or 2.5%) and having a double lock (pensions rise by inflation or wages).
Means-testing the winter fuel allowance.
Since being in power, the Conservatives have implemented structural change to the welfare system.
The 2017 campaign didn’t promise any policy reversals from before.
Conservative Ideas & Policies: Foreign policy
Exit EU single market and customs union.
Increasing budget of Ministry of Defence.
Keep Trident (nuclear deterrent).
Labour Ideas & Policies: Law and order
Increase police numbers and community policing.
Invest in border security.
Reverse Conservative cuts in law and order.
Labour Ideas & Policies: Welfare
Policies focused on ‘dignity’.
Ending Conservative policies such as the ‘Bedroom Tax’ and cuts to welfare services.
Reforming benefits assessments.
Labour Ideas & Policies: Foreign policy
Promoting a global Britain during and after Brexit.
Investing in diplomatic services.
Foreign policy focusing on human rights and resolution of conflicts.
Trying to help the refugee crisis.
Stopping support for wars of intervention.
Labour Ideas & Policies: Economy
Economy based around supporting ‘the many, not the few’.
Introducing a fairer taxation system, where top earners and corporations pay more taxes.
Investing in education and infrastructure .
Liberal Democrat Ideas & Policies: Foreign policy
Controlling sales of arms to countries with human rights abuses.
Promote cooperation internationally.
Vote on the final Brexit deal.
Remaining in the single market.
Liberal Democrat Ideas & Policies: Economy
Support capital investment.
Eliminating the “day-to-day” deficit.
Reforming taxes and increasing tax on corporations.
Encouraging a living wage.
Liberal Democrat Ideas & Policies: Law and order
Increase community policing.
Protect individual rights.
Stay in the European Court of Human Rights.
Introduce Digital Bill of Rights.
Liberal Democrat Ideas & Policies: Welfare
Making the benefits system fairer for young people and the disabled.
Reversing Conservative policies that cut benefits for some people.
Reforming benefits assessments.
