Verdon Parties Core Essay Plans and definitions Flashcards

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Essay: Conservative party is no longer a Thatcherite party agree Topic: counter-evidence Component: economy

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2019 election- levelling up- public investment in northern regions 2019 manifesto - Higher infrastructure spending e.g. HS2, broadband rollout

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only outliers are thatcherite in economic aims more united- modern tories are economically one nation and ahve aims of equality

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Focus on personal responsibility and work, Privatisation and reform of public services

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this is just pragmatic- does not mean it does not aim to unite one nation

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Greater acceptance of the welfare state- 2020–21 - Massive increase in Universal Credit and public sector support during pandemic 2019 - Tories pledged NHS funding boost - £34bn by 2023–24

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some outliers with one nation aims go against their principles (tory pragmatism), but this is not the majority

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they have very anti-woke policies

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I love being a culture warrior- Badenoch In October 2023, the “New Conservatives” group—called for a ban on teaching “gender ideology” in schools. Rwanda plan Sunak- 'swamped' Thatcher

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anti-woke is not thatcherite- they are populist and more align with combatting modern Labour than mimicking Thatcher

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Legalised same-sex marriage (2013) under David Cameron. Theresa May’s Mental Health Reforms (2017) Launched a plan to tackle mental health stigma

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therefore they typically have more inclusive social policies and their inflammatory ones are just to combat Labour

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agree- outlier Thatcherite, majority one nation

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lab and cons dominate in Westminster elections every 5 years

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2019- Lab and cons got 76% of vote FPTP favours winners- Starmer 34% to 64% of seats

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other elections are more often and show protest votes

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EU election 2019 Lab and Cons combined vote share 23%- Brexit party got over 30 % 2025 may local elections- Liberal Democrats elected 370 councillors, gaining 163

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past 2 party- FPTP now- more multi due to dissatisfaction with main parties- protest votes

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only parties with real chance to govern and set ideas from the inside

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2019 - Debate dominated by Johnson’s “Get Brexit Done” vs Corbyn’s radical manifesto Rwanda Immigration Plan (2022–2024) Intro by Johnson, continued by Sunak- became a dominant national debate, resulted in the Illegal Migration Act 2023

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Other parties can shape the conversation from outside of gov or opposition

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2015 - UKIP pressure pushed Tories to promise EU referendum- led to Cameron's resignation could be argued that Reform's emphasis on immigration actually influenced Rwanda more

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increasingly, due to unpopular reforms by cons and lab- policy creation has been taken into the hands of 3rd parties

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its very hard for small parties to be influential for practical reasons and they dont have as much money to represent

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500 pounds deposit for each candidate in a GE- 2017- 460 Greens lost deposit, costing almost 300,000 pounds 2024/25, the Conservative Party received £3.2 mil "Short Money" from public funds and £1.2 mil in from private sources

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smaller parties represent people from particular places or with particular perspectives

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SNP has continued to grow from 16,000 in 2002 to 125,000 in 2018 Green party 5,000 in 2002 to 50,000 in 2019

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past- broad tent parties represented more due to FPTP this was not questioned now- more polarised cons and lab so FPTP helps regional parties to get more votes and represent

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agree past 2 party- FPTP, official opp now- more multi due to dissatsifaction

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starmer somewhat harkens back to the idea of uniting with workers and taxing the rich more- against Blair's classless society

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Pledges a “New Deal for Working People”, Banning zero-hour contracts Corbyn- Nationalise key industries- big six energy firms 2019 manifesto

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emphasis on growth- very Blairite, Starmer as more recent and powerful than Corbyn

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starmer's refusal to nationalise Water, Royal Mail or Energy GB Energy, a publicly owned company to operate alongside private firms, not replace them (mixed economy)

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links with workers are overruled by acceptance of mixed economy- generally policy is new labour

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more hand out than hand up

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Starmer Expansion of Free School Meals and Breakfast Clubs From April 2025 Corbyn- Abolish the Two-Child Benefit Cap 2017 & 2019 manifestos

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these starmer ones can be seen as fuelling opportunity, corbyn crap they are more handups than handouts

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Starmer Support for Universal Credit but with Adjustments- Increasing work allowances. Miliband 80,000 extra apprenticeships a year

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mainly hand up occasionally hand out

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some are old- Less presidential and more technocratic

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○ More ambitious climate targets than Blair era e.g. net zero by 2030 Starmer avoids Blair’s celebrity image - to Blair’s “Cool Britannia”, 2024 - Framed as a “serious” alternative to Tory chaos rather than a visionary like Blair in 1997

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this can be seen as an extension of Blair rather than a breaking away the image change just shows pragmatism- Blair value, focus on electability

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Starmer backs abolishing the House of Lords - Blair promised but didn’t complete Corbyn suspended from the parliamentary party in 2020 - frontbench reshuffled to remove left-wing figures

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outlier- breaking away corbyn actually removed by Starmer typical- just goes further and modernises Blair with pragmatism

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agree outlier- corbyn typical- starmer

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strong looking leaders can be ineffective behind the scenes

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Cameron- popular but difficult relationship with party especially over EU Blair- personal leadership style led to controversial and independent decisions such as Iraq war and millenium dome

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increasingly presidential- leadership is very important

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Johnson- Johnson’s 2019 appeal to Red Wall voter, get Brexit done Blair’s popularity key to 1997 landslide, helped Labour win 418 seats, extremely successful, historic

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increased in this era due to presidentialism after blair- more important

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policy is more important because it actually impacts people

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Thatcher's right to buy scheme and privatisation 2019 Get Brexit Done

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in the modern day people care less about policy more about personality

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Reform vagueness- freezing "non-essential" immigration and returning back to France. local- no councillors before the elections to winning a total of 677 seats Starmer good policies- Great British Energy, Publicly owned energy company, 2022 conference, mixed economy, Returns reinvested in local communities.

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increasingly individual over policy as of late- social media and polarisation

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needed for effective governance

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Johnson 2019- 80-seat majority, Purged dissenters (e.g., Ken Clarke, Dominic Grieve) ensured a largely ideologically unified bloc- achieved Brexit May fails- May lost her majority in a snap election, hung Parliament. She relied on a confidence-and-supply agreement with the DUP,

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you can still be not very united and be a very efficient gov with a good legacy

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Cameron seen as success despite EU divide- same-sex marriage, National Living Wage (2015) Blair- fractures over the 2003 Iraq War, Minimum Wage Increases (2004, 2006), NHS and Education Investment Surge (2004–2007)

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leadership is more important when they are powerful despite divided party and can bypass party agreement

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disagree- past- media and policy present- more presidential so leader

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it is important because it shapes public perception

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Blair courted Murdoch- “The Sun Backs Blair” in 1997 helped swing public opinion. Brown- “unelected” PM The Sun’s 2009 headline: “Labour’s Lost It.”

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it is important for election, not practice- GEs are every 5 years, media is very volatile

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Blair became unsuccessful towards the end- Euro, Millenium, Iraq war- positive image did not prevent this Theresa May (2017–2019): Initially had positive media coverage as a “safe pair of hands.”

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