The Conservative Party

1
The Conservative Party

• A brief guide to their history and current
  policies.

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History

• A dominant party throughout the 19thC
• Contributed to the legislation that brought the
  vote to the working classes.
• Under Edward Heath took the UK into the European
  Union in the 1970s.
• In recent history they held office for 18 years
  under Thatcher and Major.

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Background

• Supported by business .
• Seen as the party of the middle classes.
• Liked by the upper classes the establishment.
• Became regarded as the party of sleaze in the mid
  nineteen nineties.
• Has lost members and voters and is not a strong
  opposition to the Government.

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Leaders

• Most famous were-
• Robert Peel
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Neville Chamberlin
• Winston Churchill
• Edward Heath
• Margaret Thatcher

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Policies of the past

• Privatisation of public services
• Community Charge The Poll tax
• Grant maintained schools
• Anti European attitudes
• Low taxation
• Reform of all public services

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Policies Today

• Abolish tuition fees for students.
• Introduce patients pupils passports.
• Use referenda over European constitution.
• Restore state pensions link with earnings.
• Re-introduce a hunting with dogs Bill.
• Review local government spending.
• Abolish the proposed regional assemblies.