Party factions

Question 1

New Conservatives

Answer 1

Lee Anderson.
Keen on governments Rwanda plan.
Labour’s green taxes are an attack on working people.

Question 2

European Research Group (ERG)

Answer 2

9 ERG members in Lis Truss’ cabinet.
7 ERG members in RS cabinet.
Heavily Eurosceptic. Focus on Brexit and subsequent policies.

Question 3

Northern Research Group (NRG)

Answer 3

Greater investment in the North.
Modelled on the ERG.
“a party within a party” - the telegraph
2022 BoJo cancelled conference with NRG to visit Ukraine. Backlash from North.
55 members in 2020/

Question 4

Common Sense Group

Answer 4

Culture war.
Wrote a letter to The Telegraph accusing the National Trust as being “coloured by cultural Marxist dogma”…“woke agenda”.
“nationhood, community, migration, the rule of law and public order”

Question 5

No Turning Back

Answer 5

Thatcherite.
Pro-Truss.

Question 6

One Nation Conservatives

Answer 6

106 members.
Patriotic but reject narrow nationalist. UK leader on world stage. Welfare. Decent public services. Localism. Environmental. Good regulation to enhance competition. Human rights.
Matt Hancock, Rory Stewart.

Question 7

Labour factions

Answer 7

Corbynites/momentum.
Blairites.
Blue Labour (socially conservative).