Conservatve Party Policy Flashcards
immigration
x2
- long standing pledge to cut net immigration to under 100,000 annually SCRAPPED
- Australian-style points-based system to be introduced
Brexit
x4
- Johnson wants to ‘get Brexit done’
- leave on 31st of January (which we have)
- no extension of transition period
- we leave December 2020, deal or no deal
defence
x2
- met Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence
- renewal of trident
Environment
x3
- net zero carbon emissions by 2050
- moratorium on fracking
- 30 million trees annually by 2024
minimum wage
2017: 60% of median earnings by 2020
Cameron and same-sex marriage
x2
- 2012: equal civil marriage convention
- 2013 Marriage Act (though majority of the party voted against)
Thatcher on Homosexuality
section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 banned the discussion or promotion of Homosexuality in schools
law and order
x3
- 20,000 new Police officers
- increased stop and search
- funding for 100,000 new prison spaces
housing
x2
- 2018: May announced extra £2bn for council housing
- 2019: at least one million new homes in the next five years
Education
x2
- 2017: May wanted expansion of Grammar schools
- 2019: extra 4.3bn by early 2020s
Healthcare
x2
- raise funding for NHS by 3.1% by 2023/4
- 50,000 ‘New’ nurses (18,500 already there)
social care
- extra 1bn: no specific policies
Thatcher and the EU
signed the Single European Act in 1986 which led to further economic regulation
proportion of Tory constituencies that voted to leave the EU
7 in 10
Thatcher on Referendums
quoted Attlee in 1975 calling them
‘ a device of dictators and demagogues’
Syria Airstrikes
x3
2013 vote not passed
2015 vote passed
2018 May did it without a vote
Tax
x3
- from 2010- 2017: corporation tax lowered from 26% to 19%
- 2019: corporation tax to be lowered even further to 17% by 2020
- Triple Tax Lock (income, national insurance and VAT)
May and Trade Unions
2016 Trade Union Act makes it harder for them to call strikes (certain % must vote for it)
Big society project
Cameron’s 2010 flagship policy
- emphasis on community and power to the people rather than the politicians
May’s first speech as PM
‘the just-about-managings’
Privatisation
2013: The Royal Mail under Cameron
Public sector pay cap
- Cameron cut wages of civil servants earning over 21,000 a year
- May removed this after 2017
