UK POLITICAL PARTIES AS STYLE QUESTIONS WHY HAS THE ARGUEMENT FOR POLITICAL PARTIES TO BE FUNDED BY THE STATE BECOME STRONGER IN RECENT YEARS Political party funding has been a source of controversy over recent years. Political parties could be funded through membership subscriptions‚donations from individuals and companies‚and through state funding. Over recent years there has been a lot of contention over the funds political parties receive from private donors such
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“Thirteen years of conservative misrule” How far does this explain Labour’s election victory in 1964? (50) In 1951 Winston Churchill’s Conservative party‚ won the general election‚ and this would be the start of 13 years of Conservative rule spanning three prime ministers. This rule was ended in 1964 by Harold Wilson’s reunited Labour party. In this essay‚ I will look at the factors which led to the Labour victory. Whilst in power the Conservative government made many mistakes‚ a key example
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years Conservative rule * 1979 election > start of Thatcher dominance lasting 11 years * 1997 election > start of New Labour dominance (so far 13 years) 1951 saw end of Labour and Attlee in government – had achieved all promises outlined in 1945 election manifesto and legacy remains for (arguably) twenty years. Impact on society and politics until mid 1970’s despite Conservative dominance‚ and Welfare State and NHS continue to date. 1951-1997 – Conservatives ‘natural party of government’
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Although‚ the Labour Party were obvious advocates of socialist policies‚ the Conservative election manifesto ‘had a similar commitment to full employment’6 and promised ‘an all-out housing policy.’7 Therefore‚ if there truly was a shift to the left in terms of public opinion as a result of a ‘people’s war’
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Parliament were women. The number of Conservatives women MP’s has grown from 9% in 2005 to 16% in 2010. In 2005 in his election speech David Cameron mentioned an increase of women in parliament. His promise was to transform the Conservative party and he introduced an A-List which aimed to have an equal numbers of men and women.1 These figures are still relatively low‚ even if the number of it’s women MPs more than doubled in 2010.2 Comparing the Conservatives Party to Liberal Democrats across same amount
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the downfall of Lloyd George and the coalition government in 1922 In order to fully assess the question we would need to take a look at the Economic and social issues that David Lloyd George put across as well as his foreign policies and the Conservatives seeing him as outliving his purpose. For example‚ his domestic policies were a success – they achieved what he intended to achieve‚ and achieved more then many thought realistically possible with the resources at Britain’s disposal after a devastating
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psychology of decline which had become rooted in Britain since the Second World War‚ pursuing national recovery with striking energy and determination. In the process‚ Margaret Thatcher became one of the founders‚ with Ronald Reagan‚ of a school of conservative conviction politics‚ which has had a powerful and enduring impact on politics in Britain and the United States and earned her a higher international profile than any British politician since Winston Churchill. By successfully shifting British
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The House of Lords in 1909 consisted mainly of aristocrats that where part of the conservative party. There are many different reasons for the rejection of the people’s budget‚ which was an idea‚ brought forward by David Lloyd George of the Liberal party. The swift rejection by the House of Lords sparked the first constitutional crisis of the 20th century. The first reason I am going to bring forward is that this new budget included the idea of taxation on the rich for money that would go to support
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recovery was harmful to Labour’s electoral campaign. With the working classes able to afford considerably more under Conservative rule due to the mass economic prosperity left Labour without a message or a receptive audience as the former traditional Labour voters were now middle-class conservatives. I think the age of the economic prosperity proving “life was better” with the conservatives was the most paramount factor that contributed to their victory. On top of the economic prosperity‚ Macmillan’s
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the United Kingdom is the result of a coalition government formed after the 2010 general election. Headed by the Conservative leader David Cameron it combines Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs and has been subject of intense scrutiny by each of the parties. This has meant that David Cameron has had to keep to his parties traditional values (e.g. Thatcherism) in order to hold party loyalty but at the same time make policy concessions to the Liberal Democrats so that he can maintain government
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