General Elections - Key Facts Flashcards
Leader of the Liberal Democrats
Paddy Ashdown
Opinion polls were predicting …
1997 General Election
Large Labour lead
Labour campaign was run by as a …
1997 General Election
‘Spin’ Machine
Key catchphrases of Blair
- Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime
- Education, Education, Education!
Campaign slogans of the Conservative Party in 1997
- Labour had ‘Stolen Conservative Policies’
- ‘New Labour was Old Labour in disguise’
Person who set up the Referndum Party
Sir James Goldsmith
Seat that the Referendum Party helped to defeat the Conservative candidate in
1997 General Election
Putney - David Mellor
Fraction of Conservatives that lost their seats
1997 General Election
Half
Prominent Conservatives that lost their seats
1997 General Election
- Michael Portillo
- David Mellor
- Norman Lamont
- Malcolm Rikind
Number of seats the Conservatives Won
1997 General Election
165
Number of seats Labour won
1997 General Election
418
Name given to the two sides of the Conservative Party
2001 General Election
- Mods - Modernisers
- Rockers - conservatives
Leader of the Conservative Party
2001 General Election
William Hague
Things that William Hague was mocked for
2001 General Election
- Wearning a baseball cap
- Drinking 14 pints a day as a teenager
Right wing campaign slogan adopted by the Conservatives
‘The Fight to save the £’
