22 Conservatives 1997-07

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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

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