Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Strong: Core economics remain New Right

Low tax, deregulation, privatisation legacy (rail, utilities, Royal Mail). Hunt’s 2023–24 tax cuts; refused to nationalise Thames Water despite £20bn debt.

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Strong: National living wage can be read as New Right

Self-sufficiency: workers earn enough without relying on the state. Promotes individual prosperity, as Thatcher advocated.

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Strong: New Right on policing and protest

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2023: tougher penalties for road obstruction, powers to set start, end and noise limits on protests.

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Weak: One Nation elements remain

Cameron’s Big Society; Johnson’s levelling up; 2013 same-sex marriage. Echo Disraeli’s organic, interconnected society and prevent ‘two nations’.

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Weak: National living wage (2015) as paternalism

State intervention; economic unity through noblesse oblige.

Evaluate: ‘the modern Conservative Party is dominated by the New Right rather than One Nation’ - Weak: Covid-era interventionism

Eat Out to Help Out; record spending since WWII. State intervention and social cohesion.

Overall judgement

New Right dominates (economics, policing); One Nation survives in social and intervention policies, especially in crises.

Key terms

Big Society, levelling up, noblesse oblige, Disraeli, Thatcher, PCSC Act 2023, NLW 2015.