Structure of Political Parties

2022 Liz Truss was elected on __ % of the member’s vote.

57%

What percentage of the Tory party is 18-24?

2%

A vote of no-confidence is held in the party leader if __% of conservative MPs write to the chair of the 1922 committee

15%

Sunak was elected __ days after Truss resigned in __ ____ because he was the only nominee in the leadership contest.

• 5

• Oct 2022

What percentage of the country is a member of the big 3 parties?

1.5%

What proportion of the electorate was part of a party in the 1980s?

4%

How large is the conservative party membership (2024) ?

130,000

_____ is the largest growing party

Reform

How large is Reform’s membership?

200,000

What is the size of Labour’s membership?

309,000

How much has Labour’s membership fallen by since the 2024 general election?

10%

_____ _____ gave £_ _____ to conservatives and was recommended for a peerage by _____

• Peter Cruddas

• 3 million

• Johnson

In ____ Clause IV of the Labour Party Constitution was drafted by ____ _____

• 1918

• Sidney Webb

When did Thatcher loose the confidence of Tory MPs and loose the leadership contest?

Nov 1990

In ___ ____, after failing _ times to pass her Brexit legislation, May stood down and was replaced by Boris Johnson by her party members

• May 2019

• 3

Theresa May survived no confidence votes in __ ____ and ___ _____

• Dec 2018

• Jan 2019

Name 4 different factions of the conservatives:

• Northern Research Group

• National Conservatives

• One-Nation

• Pop Con

The NRG is the _____ ______ _____ , and are Tory MPs that focus on the red wall

Northern Research Group

The ______ ______ are conservatives like Danny Kruger MP who are concerned about falling birthrates and woke

National Conservatives

How many one-nation conservatives were stripped of the party whip after rebelling against a no-deal Brexit?

21

__ ___ is a faction of the Tory party and MPs that include Braverman, Mogg and Truss.

PopCon

Labour has been using All-women shortlists (AWS) since ____, and has led it to have the largest proportion of female MPs (__%)

• 1993

• 46%