Conservatve Party Policy

Question 1

immigration

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Answer 1

• long standing pledge to cut net immigration to under 100,000 annually SCRAPPED
• Australian-style points-based system to be introduced

Question 2

Brexit

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Answer 2

• 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

Question 3

defence

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Answer 3

• met Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence

- renewal of trident

Question 4

Environment

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Answer 4

• net zero carbon emissions by 2050
• moratorium on fracking
• 30 million trees annually by 2024

Question 5

minimum wage

Answer 5

2017: 60% of median earnings by 2020

Question 6

Cameron and same-sex marriage

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Answer 6

• 2012: equal civil marriage convention

- 2013 Marriage Act (though majority of the party voted against)

Question 7

Thatcher on Homosexuality

Answer 7

section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 banned the discussion or promotion of Homosexuality in schools

Question 8

law and order

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Answer 8

• 20,000 new Police officers
• increased stop and search
• funding for 100,000 new prison spaces

Question 9

housing

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Answer 9

• 2018: May announced extra £2bn for council housing

- 2019: at least one million new homes in the next five years

Question 10

Education

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Answer 10

• 2017: May wanted expansion of Grammar schools

- 2019: extra 4.3bn by early 2020s

Question 11

Healthcare

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Answer 11

• raise funding for NHS by 3.1% by 2023/4

- 50,000 ‘New’ nurses (18,500 already there)

Question 12

social care

Answer 12

• extra 1bn: no specific policies

Question 13

Thatcher and the EU

Answer 13

signed the Single European Act in 1986 which led to further economic regulation

Question 14

proportion of Tory constituencies that voted to leave the EU

Answer 14

7 in 10

Question 15

Thatcher on Referendums

Answer 15

quoted Attlee in 1975 calling them

‘ a device of dictators and demagogues’

Question 16

Syria Airstrikes

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Answer 16

2013 vote not passed
2015 vote passed
2018 May did it without a vote

Question 17

Tax

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Answer 17

• 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)

Question 18

May and Trade Unions

Answer 18

2016 Trade Union Act makes it harder for them to call strikes (certain % must vote for it)

Question 19

Big society project

Answer 19

Cameron’s 2010 flagship policy

- emphasis on community and power to the people rather than the politicians

Question 20

May’s first speech as PM

Answer 20

‘the just-about-managings’

Question 21

Privatisation

Answer 21

2013: The Royal Mail under Cameron

Question 22

Public sector pay cap

Answer 22

• Cameron cut wages of civil servants earning over 21,000 a year
• May removed this after 2017