Political Parties

Question 1

Levelling Up

Answer 1

• allocated £4.8 billion to improve equality of opportunity across the UK
• 216 projects already funded
• Aberdeen City Council awarded £20 million to improve city centre

Question 2

Austerity

Answer 2

• fiscal policy adopted following the Great Recession
• Deficit reduction programme
• Sustained reductions in public spending and tax rises
• Over £30 billion cut from welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services

Question 3

Furlough Scheme

Answer 3

• £69 Billion spent to keep people in employment

Question 4

2024 Spring Budget

Answer 4

• Cut national insurance by 2 percent
• Cut capital gains tax from 28% to 24%

Question 5

2022 Budget

Answer 5

• National Insurance would rise by 1.25% and would be invested in social care and health

Question 6

2019 Conservative Manifesto

Answer 6

• Not to raise national insurance, VAT and income tax

Question 7

Universal Credit

Question 8

1944 Education Act

Answer 8

• Free Secondary education compulsory for all
• Labour

Question 9

Clause IV

Answer 9

• Committed to common ownership originally
• Blair rewrote it to remove this commitment

Question 10

Key Green Party policy

Answer 10

Introduce a carbon tax

Question 11

Reform environmental policy

Answer 11

• promote nuclear energy

Question 12

Conservatives environmental policy

Answer 12

• Support more oil and gas contracts in the North Sea

Question 13

BNP social policy

Answer 13

BNP wants to encourage women to leave employment and become housewives, criminalise homosexuality, criminalise abortion

Question 14

Example of being a multi-party system

Answer 14

Green Party have 8/131 seats in Scottish parliament, over 1/4 of what Labour or Cons have (they won 8% of the vote)

Question 15

Example of smaller parties having influence in devolved assemblies

Answer 15

Plaid Cymru won 13/60 seats and 21% of the vote

Question 16

Example of national multi-party system

Answer 16

In 2005, Lib Dems won 62 seats and 22% of the vote

Question 17

Example of multi-party system in Westminster

Answer 17

In 2010, Lib Dems won 57 seats and made up the coalition

Question 18

Example of multi-party system limited by FPTP

Answer 18

In 2015, UKIP won 1/8 of the vote but 1 seat

Question 19

Example of multi-party system on a local level

Answer 19

In 2024, Lib Dems won double the amount of councils than the Conservatives and won more seats than them as well

Question 20

Example of multi-party system on a local level

Answer 20

In 2021, Oxfordshire had a Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition

Question 21

Where is Labour united on social policy?

Answer 21

• NHS
• Free school meals

Question 22

Where is Labour disunited on social policy?

Answer 22

• Blue Labour empathise with patriotism, religion and supporting the military whilst Corbyn was anti-war and supported migration

Question 23

Where is Labour disunited on social policy

Answer 23

• Education - Blair created academies but more left-wing member criticise them because they generate funds privately

Question 24

Where is Labour united on economic policy

Answer 24

• Hostility towards market fundamentalism
• Far left are a very small minority with big influences (eg. Corbyn and Long-Bailey having whips removed)
• nationalisation of rail

Question 25

Example of Labour being disunited on economic policy

Answer 25

• Levels of nationalisation
• Acceptance of capitalism (though this is more unified in parliamentary labour)

Question 26

Example of Labour being disunited on Foreign Policy

Answer 26

• Brexit - Graham Stringer and Kelvin Hopkins are euroskeptic Labour MPs
• Isolationist factions view the EU as a ‘capitalist club’
• Israel-Palestine - Starmer aligning with Sunak in support of Israel whilst significant groups call for a ceasefire (eg. Marsha de Cordova)

Question 27

Example of conservatives being disunited on social policy

Answer 27

In 2013, 136 MPs rebelled against the same-sex marriage act

Question 28

Starmer trade unions

Answer 28

• fired shadow rail minister after joining strikers
• Pledged to repeal TU Act 2016

Question 29

Labour 2 child benefit cap

Answer 29

• Starmer backed out of commitment to remove cap
• Leader of Scottish Labour party publicly criticised this

Question 30

Labour on israel-gaza

Answer 30

• 56 MPs went against party line to vote for SNP motion for immediate ceasefire

Question 31

Green party economic policy

Answer 31

• universal basic income
• cap interest rates
• establish democratically accountable community banks
• worker cooperatives

Question 32

Green party foreign/immigration policy

Answer 32

• remove minimum income requirements for VISAs
• rejoin the EU
• world localisation organisation should replace the WTO

Question 33

Green party social policy

Answer 33

• class sizes of 20
• devolution
• extensive environmental investment

Question 34

Reform economic policy

Answer 34

• cut taxes - lift income tax start point to £20,000
• Lift VAT threshold to £120,000
• Scrap environmental tax levies
• Tax relief of 20% on private healthcare and insurance

Question 35

Reform social policy

Answer 35

• drug dealing gets life imprisonment
• ban critical race theory and gender ideology
• 40,000 new police officers
• withdraw benefits from job seekers after 4 months
• zero NHS waiting lists

Question 36

Reform UK foreign and immigration policy

Answer 36

• leave the ECHR
• zero illegal immigrants resettled to the UK
• Cut foreign aid by 50%