The Conservative Party

What are One nation conservatism’s aims?

• To heal divisions within society, ensuring that everyone has the opportunities to flourish

• Strives to use the state to create social unity

• Encourage wider community to support and aid

Who were One Nation Conservatives?

• Harold Macmillan

• Edward Heath

What is Paternalism?

Acting in the interests of others who are unable to make informed moral decisions themselves

What is New Right/ Thatcherism’s aims?

• Free markets, private property and competition

• Mobilising the work force and creating self dependent individuals to generate greater wealth

What is privatisation?

transferring nationalised industries from the public sector to the private sector

What is deregulation?

• Removal of restrictions and controls in the economy, reducing trade unions powers, lengthy prison sentences, nuclear family,property owning democracy

What do One Nation Conservative’s think about the economy?

• 2019 Manifesto- pledged to increase national living wage and first £12,500 would be free

• Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 through green infrastructure and clean energy solutions

What does the New Right think to the economy?

• They want free trade and a point based immigration system

• They also want tax cuts for high earners

What do one nation conservative’s think the wellfare?

• 2019 manifesto pledged to strengthen the NHS by increasing spending by 3.4%

• 2021 budget showed that public spending was 2.1% of GDP

What does the New Right think to welfare?

• Benefits cut and restructured (benefits cap)

• Cuts to public spending which would affect the NHS, schools and community services

What do One Nation Conservative’s think to law and order?

• Policies that would restrict individul freedoms as it would protect health and society

What does the New Right think to law and order?

• Saw Covid restrictions as running counter to individual choice and freedom as they felt that the state has interferred too much in people’s lives

What do One Nation Conservative’s think to foreign policy?

• The party is too focused on the EU and the New Right would persue a hard brexit no matter the cost. They want a closer relationship with Europe

What does the New Right think to foreign policy?

• Hard Brexiteers pushed for a break from Europe to focus on America, free trade with the wider world and nationalism