POLITICS

• Cameron privatised Royal mail
• cut to National Insurance happened in 2023
• Trussonomics was strongly disliked by one nation faction leading to the coup that resulted in her removal from office
• One nation pledge to 'level up' which included HS2
• £37bn cut from welfare budget by Conservatives from 2010-2019
• understand that 90% of population reliant upon NHS
• New right increased National Insurance by 1.25% which was reversed by Sunak by cutting it 2%
• Johnson pledged 40 new hospitals and 50,000 nurses in 2019 manifesto
• All Conservatives united on 2% spending GDP on military spending & retaining TRIDENT
• Aid to Ukraine
• Labour's net zero policy
• Starmer distanced himself from nationalisation, 50% top rate of tax, 32 hour, 4 day working week from Corbyn's 2019 manifesto
• Corbyn £26bn more spending on NHS 2019 manifesto
• Starmer wants to abolish 'non-dom' tax status
• Wes Streeting- NHS must 'reform or die'
• Starmer reversed Corbyn's pledge to abolish uni fees
• Corbyn's policy of 2nd EU referendum 2019
• Starmer wants stronger ties with the EU
• Ed Davey (Lib Dem) policy for £130bn on infrastructure
• Labour policy for expansion of childcare for 1-2yr olds to 30hrs
• Lib dem policy to expand equality of opportunity- 20,000 new teachers
• PPE contracts provided by private sector during Covid
• European withdrawl act 2020- Johnson
• Hung parliaments in 2010 (Lib Dems) & 2017 (DUP- confidence and supply )
• Scottish independence ref 2014- 56% to 44%- now want Indyref2
• DUP only had 0.9% of votes & 1.5% of MPs but all power
• Conservatives had all power but only 36.8% of voteshare (2015) & 42.3% (2017)
• horse trading of policies- Lib Dems tuition fees & Conservatives Same Sex Couples Act 2013
• 18/21 elctions have produced strong stable gov
• voters now act as a 'consumer'- Bale
• Cameron (competence), Thatcher (strength), Blair (good communicator), Johnson (charisma)
• Valence is 'strongest explanatory power'
• 2010- Labour blamed for 2008 recession
• Blair- 1997- 43.2% of voteshare but 179 seat majority
• Major- 'Tory Sleaze'
• Jo Swinson- East Dunbartonshire 2019- removed from office
• Curtis- 'lottery elections'
• Overrepresentation- Conservatives 2019
• Lib dems 2019- 11.6% of voteshare but 11 seats
• 2021 Greens and SNP oil horse trading