The Conservative Party

Question 1

History of the Conservative party

Answer 1

• Origins in the 17th century
• Established in 1930s under Robert Peel - defenders of hierarchy, ruling elite, monarchy and church of england
• Highly succesful in the 19-20th century - appealed to the middle class and aristocracy
• Peel stressed the importance of gradual reform to protest and conserve institutions

Question 2

What is one-nation conservatism?

Question 3

One nation conservatism

Answer 3

• Associated with Benjamin Disraeli - rich look agfter the poor, aimed to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor through paternalistic social policy
• Disraeli saw society as an organic body - stability and prosperity only achieved through uniting nations
• Patriotic foreign policy - strengthem national unity
• Peaked post war when party accepted change introduced by atlee government (welfare state, NHS, govt action to maintain high employment, keyneisain economies, nationalised indusrty
• Pragmatic approach - mixed free market with labour policies of state intervention and welfare
• Post war consensus

Question 4

What is New right?

Question 5

New-Right (Thatcherism)

Answer 5

• Under leadership of Margaret Thatcher - new right ideology - large scale industrial unrest
• Combination of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - economy regulates itself with litttle state interferencces - invisible hand of the market
• Reduced state intervention and restored order in society
• Neo-conservatism - authoritilsation - order
• Neo liberal economics
• Privitisation( privatley owned industries)- free market
  Tough approach on law and order
  ** Strong foreign policy - USSR, Falklands War
  Eurosceptic - protecting sovereignity against EU
  Self reliance is important **

Question 6

Key points about David Camerons premiership?

Answer 6

• 2010-2015 coalition
• Respectful of thatcher but aware britian had changed
• Cameron recognised from blair that needed to win support beyond core votes - identofying liberal conservative tolerant of minor and different lifestyles
• Showed interest in enviroment - importance, valued NHS, attempted to shift back to one nation conservatism, however his premirship became defined by austerity and divided over eu went aginsy one nation

Question 7

Camerons economic policy

Question 8

Camerons Law and order policy

Question 9

Camerons Welfare policy

Question 10

Camerons foreign policy

Question 11

Camerons foreign policy?

Question 12

Camerons OTHER policy

Question 13

Thatcher Economic policy

Question 14

Thatcher Law and Order policy

Question 15

Thatcher Welfare policy

Question 16

Thatcher foreign policy

Question 17

Thatcher other

Question 18

Sunaks premiership

Question 19

Sunak economic policy

Question 20

Sunak law and order policy

Question 21

Sunak welfare policy

Question 22

Sunak foreign policy

Question 23

Sunak other policy

Question 24

Major

Answer 24

• Represented continuation of thatcherism
• Privitisation of coal and railways
• Narrowly won 1992 election - party became divided over europe
• Moderate pro-european - unsuccessfully tried to reconcile eurosceptics vs pro-europeans - William Hauge, Ian Duncan Smith, Micheal Howard failed to unseat Blair - failed to distance from thatcherism

Question 25

May

Answer 25

• Continue camerons liberal/onenation with continued austerity
• Divisions over brexit
• Strong stable leader - loosing 2017 maj chaos and division over brexit

Question 26

Johnson

Answer 26

• Departed from thatcher
• Hardline brexiteer successfully passed the hard brexit deal ‘get brexit done
• Premirship became defined by covid-19 partygate
• Event based rather than ideology - moved away from austerity and promoted leveling up to invest in the North
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