Conservatives

Question 1

Social policies that they all agree on

Answer 1

conservatives back law and order policies and back harsher sentences. This can be seen in their 2019 manifesto where they pledged to add an additional 20,000 police officers.

Question 2

social policies where they disagree

Answer 2

2013 same sex marriage act saw party completely divided. For example 118 of them including david cameron and jeremy hunt voted for it 127 of them voted against it including christopher chope and theresa coffey.

Question 3

Foreign policy they agree on

Answer 3

strongly in favour of supporting NATO and USA this can be seen in the conservatives support of ukraine and speaking out against putin e.g. between april 2022 and march 2023 they spent £2.3 billion on ukraine.

Question 4

Foreign policy they disagree on

Answer 4

Party was completely divided over brexit many top ranking conservative voted remain including David Cameron and George Osborne and Theresa may. While many other top conservatives such as boris Johnson rishi sunak and David Davis voted leave. Under Johnson 21 MPs including Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond were kicked out of the party for opposing brexit

Question 5

Economic policy agree

Answer 5

Privatisation - Royal Mail was privatised in 2013 due to 2011 postal services act 2011 by David Cameron

Question 6

Economic disagreement

Answer 6

Right MPs want to lower taxation to improve the economy they believe in trickle down economics this can be seen in liz truss decision to to reduce the top rate of income tax. Whereas the more moderate side believe it could have a negative impact on public services provided