SOURCE KEY EVIDENCE Flashcards
(15 cards)
1
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- Conservatives - 2019 General Election
A
Boris Johnson, right wing manifesto promising Brexit
2
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- Labour - 2019 General Election
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Jeremy Corbyn - Radically left wing manifesto, renationalisation
3
Q
- Corbyn wanted to increase Corporation Tax to?
A
26%
4
Q
- Internal Divisions under Corbyn
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80 Centrist front-benchers resigned between 2015 and 2019.
4
Q
- Internal Divisions under Johnson
A
September 2019 - 21 MPs lost the whip - opposed BJ’s Brexit plan
5
Q
- What did Labour support in 2024 GE?
A
Nationalisation of the railway, workers’ rights, green investment
5
Q
- What did the Conservatives support in the 2024 General Election?
A
Tax cuts, individual enterprise, reductions in regulation
6
Q
- YouGov 2019 Conservative voting stats
A
44% of Conservatives backed Rail nationalisation
6
Q
- Economic policy that remains a cornerstone for Left vs Right politics
A
NHS - public vs private sector provision
7
Q
- Labour’s safe seats taken by Johnson in 2019 GE
A
Red Wall - many voters favoured Brexit
8
Q
- Tory Austerity
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2010-16
8
Q
- Labour anti-austerity campaign
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2010-16
8
Q
- Conservative division during Brexit
A
Eurosceptics vs Europhiles
8
Q
- Who introduced the plans for Net Zero and by when?
A
Johnson government, by 2050
8
Q
- What caused Tory backbench rebellion in 2023?
A
2023 ULEZ debates - cost of green policy implementation
