Conservatives

• One nation

  • Disraeli belief was to bridge the gap between the classes, through paternalistic social policy in which natural leaders would act beneveolently to the disadvantaged
  • Balanced free enterprise with state intervention, in economic and social policy.
• During the blair years

  • Next three leaders lost to blair who held the centre ground
  • the leaders failed to distance themselves from thatcherism
  • Outdated policies and ageing membership failed to appeal to diversify society
• Cameron

  • Cameron identified himself as a liberal conservative who was tolerant to minority groups
  • His premiership was defined by austerity and divisions over europe
• Boris Johnson

  • Pass brexit ' get brexit done'
  • Partygate
  • Moved away from austerity through funding furlough schemes in covid
• May

  • Sought to continue cameron's liberal one nation approach
  • premiership - she sough strong and stable dividisons however her reign was defined by divisions over the EU
• Lizz truss

  • She reintroduced Thatcherism
  • Resigned after 45 days
  • Cutting taxes including corporation tax
  • Bank of england increased interest rates
• Rishi sunak

  • Brexiteer
  • Rwanda policy controversy
  • Halving inflation
  • Debt falling
  • stop the boats
• Kemi Badenoch

  • Characterised by traditional values
  • Skeptic on net - zero policies
  • reduce public expenditure
  • Advocating a smaller state
  • Pragmatic governance
• Thatcher economic policy

  • cut tax rate from 83% to 40% for income, corpation tax reduced from 52% to 34%
  • Spending cuts by £1 billion
  • Thatcher supported privatisation and the removing the state from the market and introduced a series of massive privatisations starting in 1981 with british telecoms and itnroduced a right to buy scheme for people wanting to buy their own council houses
• Thatcher law and order policy

  • Thatcher took on the unions - called them the enemy within and successfully reduced their power TRADE UNION ACT 1984
  • Increased funding for police and armed forces despite budget cuts in otehr departments
  • Tough on crime
• Thatcher welfare policy

  • With the 1988 Education reform act, Thatcher removed the control over education from local politicians, making schools self governing and the curriculum decided by the UK government
  • Thatcher cut the budgets of many government departments and reduced some benefits but didnt privatise the nHS due to the strong public support for it.
• Thatcher Foreign policy

  • Thtacher has a very strong assertive foreign policy
  • Strongly projected Britains interests abroad, including against the USSR and in the falklands war, and developed a strong relationship with Reagan in the US
  • She was also eurosceptic and sought to protect Britain's sovereignty against a growing EU - eurosceptic
  • She also supported economic community and liberalistion of the EU
  • She also refused to impose sanctions on apartheid south african and described Nelson mandela as a terrorist.
• Thatcher other policy

  • Section 28 - ban on promoting homosexuality in schools, which was extermely homophobic and has been strongly condemend. it represented her christian values
  • introduced poll tax to replace council tax, which would mean all individuals paid the same amount rather than payment being based on the value of ones property
• Cameron Economic policy

  • Cameron's priority was to reduce the budget deficit he inherited from labour and introduced austerity to maintain the confidence of the financial markets and prevent britains borrowing costs from rising
  • The budget of government departments were cut by up to 25%
  • He blamed the 2008 financial crisis on labours irresponsible overspending
  • he didnt increase taxes to raise more money, though , instead cutting them in 2015
• Cameron law and order policy

  • More liberal attitude towards law and order
  • He tried to take a more balanced approach. He supported tough sentencing for certain crimes but promoted rehabilitation revolution to reduce the problem of reoffenders
  • Camerons law and order resembled Blair's insistence that the government must be tough on crime and tought on the causes of crime
• Cameron Welfare policy

  • The policies of the coalition were intended to cut costs and encourage those receiving benefits to be more self reliant, distinguing between hard working strivers and underserving shirkers who the government sought to penalise
  • The uniersla credit sustem was introcued and intended to simplify the welfare system and encourage low - income people to take up employment
  • The coalition also implemented radical overhaul of the NHS, allowing the private sector to complete the state hospitals
• Cameron foreign policy

  • Camerons approach was similar to Thatchers in that he promoted the special relationship with the US, supported air strikes against IS in syria and Iraq and supported pragmatic euroscepticism
  • Cameron tried to fight britains corner in the EU, attempting to renogtiate the UK's terms of membership before holding a referendum in which he supported remain
• Cameron other policy

  • Cameron sought to strongly tackle climate change, saying his government would be the greenest government ever, prioritising green investments and introducing a carbon tax on fossil fuels
  • Partly influenced by being in power with the liberal democracts in the coalition, cameron sought to be a liberal conservative and importantly legalised same sex marriage in 2023.
• Rishi Sunak economic policy

  • Half inlfation by the end of 2023
  • Corporation tax rose from 19% to 25%
  • Increased minimum wage to 10.40 an hour in response to rising inflation
  • Strongly opposing striking workers, however, and has so far refused to offer them substantial real - terms pay increases in the context of falling real term wages due to rising inflation.
• Rishi Sunak Law and order policy

  • Sunaks government seems to be taking a tough approach to crime, pledging to recruit 20,000 additional police officers and reduce homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime by 20%
  • Sunak is also taking a very tough approach to striking workers and protests. He looks likely to introduce anti - strike legislation and laws to limit protests in the UK
  • Sunak is also taking a very strong stance against immigration - rwanda policy
• Rishi Sunak welfare policy

  • Sunak has promise to cut NHS waiting times with 300 million in emergency funding compared to the 7 billion NHS has asked for
  • Sunak has also opposed striking nHS nurses, ambulance workers and teachers and is seeking to introduce a manadatory minimum service levels as part of his new proposed anti strike legislation
• Rishi Sunak foreign policy

  • Sunaks government appears to have a strong assertive foreign policy
  • Strongly supported ukraine in the war against russia
  • James cleverly detailed tough stance the UK needs to take on chinas lack of adherence to the rules and norms of the international community
  • Strong support brexit and strong stance in relation to the northern ireland protocol