Section 6 -1997-2007 Flashcards
when did labour win the 1990s election?
1997
when was the good friday agreement
1998
when did britain sell half of its gold reserves?
1999-2002
when did NATO intervene in Kosovo?
1999
when was blair’s third way speech?
2000
when was labour’s second successful election?
2001
when was the euro adopted by the EU?
2002
when did Blair fight for the reform of CAP treaty of rome?
2004
what year were the 7/7 bombings?
2005
when did blair win his third victory?
2005
when was the st andrew’s agreement?
2006
what did Blair do with the liberals before the 1997 election?
arranged a contingency for a coalition government?
when was the hutton inquiry?
2003
what was the hutton inquiry?
judicial inquiry in the UK chaired by Lord Hutton, who was appointed by the Labour government to investigate the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, a biological warfare expert and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq.
what was David Kelly forced to do?
explain himself before the televised foreign affairs committee
what was the ecclestone affair
the government exempted motor racing from the tobacco ban as the head of formular 1, ecclestone, gave £1mil for it to not be banned which made labour look like they’d been bribed
what was balir’s reaction to the accusation labour had been bribed by ecclestone?
resputes it
refused to take any more donations from ecclestone
what was the economy like in 1997?
Indicators were positive, unemployment was down, productivity was up, consumer spending went up, car ownership increased, house prices rose, negative equity was a thing of the past
when was scottish parliament and welsh assemble created?
1998
welsh devolution
Welsh Assembly has fewer powers than the Scottish parliament, with the referendum based on no tax-raising powers and the ability to enact secondary legislation
Labour has remained the dominant party, and independence seems much more distant
Blair seemed reluctant to allow Wales these additional powers and imposed Alun Michael as First Minister, who then resigned in 2000 rather than facing a vote of no confidence
Scottish devolution
Scotland voted resoundingly for a Scottish parliament and tax-raising powers
Implementation of PR electoral system and fixed term of four years to try to prevent SNP dominance and subsequent mandate for independence
SNP won an outright majority in 2011, leading to the independence referendum of 2014
The Barnett Formula allowed Scotland favourable financial circumstances
when was the house of lords act?
1999
when was the human rights acts?
1998
what are some critisims of new labour?
only elected because conservatives were weak
less people were voting
says they abandoned socialist policies
blair acted in his own interests
privatised factory which lost 9000 jobs
abolished clause IV
master manipulator of the media
did not reform trade union laws
what happened between Iraq and Blair?
Blair and Bush suspected Iraq had nuclear weapons despite not being allowed them- USA wanted Britain to go at it alone
why was blair’s accusation of iraq hypocritical?
Britain had nuclear weapons
what were Blair’s 4 values for a just society?
equal worth
opportunity for all
responsibility
community
largely abandoned after 2001
what was Blair’s aim by abolishing clause IV?
privatised businesses
have britain as a leader of europe and not be enslaved by europe’s single currency
between state-controlled and laissez faire
what was the commission on electoral reform?
made the house of lords appear more modern- 92 hereditary peers and CofE bishops
people were appointed based on merit
did not chnage the voting system
what was the AV plus?
voters ranked candidates rather than just vote for 1 individual
if no party reaches over 50%- the party with the least amount of votes gets eliminated and their votes redistributed
devised by the jenkins commission i 1997
