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1
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immigration

x2

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  • long standing pledge to cut net immigration to under 100,000 annually SCRAPPED
  • Australian-style points-based system to be introduced
2
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Brexit

x4

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  • Johnson wants to ‘get Brexit done’
  • leave on 31st of January (which we have)
  • no extension of transition period
  • we leave December 2020, deal or no deal
3
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defence

x2

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  • met Nato target of spending 2% of GDP on defence

- renewal of trident

4
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Environment

x3

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  • net zero carbon emissions by 2050
  • moratorium on fracking
  • 30 million trees annually by 2024
5
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minimum wage

A

2017: 60% of median earnings by 2020

6
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Cameron and same-sex marriage

x2

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  • 2012: equal civil marriage convention

- 2013 Marriage Act (though majority of the party voted against)

7
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Thatcher on Homosexuality

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section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 banned the discussion or promotion of Homosexuality in schools

8
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law and order

x3

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  • 20,000 new Police officers
  • increased stop and search
  • funding for 100,000 new prison spaces
9
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housing

x2

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  • 2018: May announced extra £2bn for council housing

- 2019: at least one million new homes in the next five years

10
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Education

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  • 2017: May wanted expansion of Grammar schools

- 2019: extra 4.3bn by early 2020s

11
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Healthcare

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  • raise funding for NHS by 3.1% by 2023/4

- 50,000 ‘New’ nurses (18,500 already there)

12
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social care

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  • extra 1bn: no specific policies
13
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Thatcher and the EU

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signed the Single European Act in 1986 which led to further economic regulation

14
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proportion of Tory constituencies that voted to leave the EU

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7 in 10

15
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Thatcher on Referendums

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quoted Attlee in 1975 calling them

‘ a device of dictators and demagogues’

16
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Syria Airstrikes

x3

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2013 vote not passed
2015 vote passed
2018 May did it without a vote

17
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Tax

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  • from 2010- 2017: corporation tax lowered from 26% to 19%
  • 2019: corporation tax to be lowered even further to 17% by 2020
  • Triple Tax Lock (income, national insurance and VAT)
18
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May and Trade Unions

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2016 Trade Union Act makes it harder for them to call strikes (certain % must vote for it)

19
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Big society project

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Cameron’s 2010 flagship policy

- emphasis on community and power to the people rather than the politicians

20
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May’s first speech as PM

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‘the just-about-managings’

21
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Privatisation

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2013: The Royal Mail under Cameron

22
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Public sector pay cap

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  • Cameron cut wages of civil servants earning over 21,000 a year
  • May removed this after 2017