22 Conservatives 1997-07
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- Created on: 02-06-17 13:51
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- Conservative Party 1997-07
- Hague 1997-01
- The party was very Eurosceptic and Thatcherite
- Anyone but Ken Clarke was a Europhile
- Fresh start, unified splits, ruled out single currency
- Tories remained unpopular
- Peter Lilley speech against Thatcherism
- Mods and Rockers
- IDS 2001-03
- Negative voting against Clarke and Portillo
- Lacked charisma
- 'Compassionate Conservatism'
- Eurosceptic, socially conservative, voted against repeal of Section 28 and allowing unmarried couples to adopt
- Modernisers didn't follow party line
- Supported Iraq War
- Sleaze scandals over paying wife too much
- Howard 2003-05
- Unifying figure
- Couldn't compete with Blair
- IDS social justice abandoned, distrusted on key areas
- Promoted modernisers
- Cameron 2005-16
- Note free speech at conference defeated David Davis
- Modernising to reach electroate
- Climate change, gay rights, NHS
- Less talk of Europe
- Osborne maintain Labour spending levels
- Labour struggled to attack Cameron
- Unity to win election
- Electoral failure 2001 and 2005
- Leadership, divisions, resistance to reforrm
- Hung up on Thatcherism and past success
- Labour popular up to 2003
- Hague not taken seriously and struggled with divisions
- 2005 Howard still attached to Thatcher, little change
- Dinner party, more radical Thatcherite
- Strengthened calls for change from maodernisers
- Hague 1997-01
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