David Cameron Research Paper

provided labour with a great opportunity to get back on the attack. If there had been a

For example David Cameron (DC) controversially changed the outlook of the conservative party and claimed it to be ‘The party of the NHS’. He also believes that state intervention within healthcare s needed and vital, as well as being against any privatisation of the NHS.

Although the UK Prime Minister is elected separately through Parliamentary elections, unlike the USA President, there is a trend for Prime Ministers to claim popular authority on the basis of electoral victory. Prime Ministers have therefore become the ideological consciences of their

But has the Conservative party actually abandoned Thatcherism? Considering the points displayed in this essay, I have come to the conclusion that Cameron’s ‘progressive’ party may not so adverse to Thatcherism at all. The most important issues over specific reforms raised by the current Conservative Government seem to be highly influenced by the ideas of Thatcher. What is essential to point out is that times have evolved since the Thatcher timeframe and the Conservatives have had to evolve along with these times and adapt their attitudes to gain support from the electorate who view the ‘Iron Lady’s’ concepts as out of date. As to any argument, there are two sides to the story; let us remember that Cameron’s Government has only had the chance

Another contributing factor at this election may have been performance in office, which in the above statement is not seen as important as personality and image. However, performance in office may have been extremely detrimental for the conservatives in 1997 because of their crisis in 1992. This focuses on the retrospective model, as people saw the Conservatives as incompetent in handling the economy because of Black Wednesday in September 1992. The Conservatives and especially Noramnt Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer, were to blame for the crisis that saw the pound forced out of the ERM. This didn’t help at the 1997 general election where they did extremely badly in a huge Labour win.

The conservative party has been in existence since the 1670s and was first called the ‘Tories’, a term used by the Scottish and Irish to describe a robber. This party is a right- wing party which believed in conserving the tradition and the king, as the name entails. David Cameron, the current party leader became the leader in 2005. He is also the present prime minister of Great Britain and he has made a lot of changes since he became the leader of the party. In this essay, I will talk about the history of the party, looking into detail at their gradual changes or transition in ideology and the various changes that David Cameron has made to the party’s image and beliefs.

The many reasons why New Labour under Tony Blair continued Thatcherite policies will be explored throughout this paper. Once analysis of New Labour has been explored, this paper will attempt to narrow the consequences of Thatcher’s policy continuation to confer whether those policies were beneficial or destructive to British political discourse and British society.

The UK coalition government started their fiscal consolidation (concentrates on reducing government deficits and debt accumulation, i.e. national debt) towards the end of 2010 when the Labour government’s fiscal stimulus package was abandoned. The first act by the newly appointed coalition government was to cut spending and to increase indirect taxes, which involved increasing the main rate of VAT from 17.5% to 20% from the beginning of 2011. However, increasing tax and reducing government spending have advantages and disadvantages.

In recent years, it has been increasingly apparent that European Parliament election turnout is on the decline, with just 35.6% of British citizens casting their vote in 2014. This is remarkably low, especially when viewed alongside other national decisions such as the referendum for Britain to leave the European Union, which received a staggering 72.2% turnout. However, this decline was not

tax cuts and a smaller government gave hope to those who were apart of the conservative

Ironically, he acted as trade negotiator with China and Russia as a senior member of Tory Leon Britain’s office. In 1999, Clegg was elected a Member of the European Parliament for East Midlands. His grounded and rounded European outlook had political benefits. Clegg’s European friendly approach helped persuade Conservative MEP Bill Dunn to defect to the Liberal Democrats in 2000. Clegg has structured his political persona as friendly and approachable. After working five years for the European Parliament, Clegg became the leader of the Liberal Democrats and won a Parliamentary seat in Sheffield. Clegg proved to be very popular with British voters finding him “refreshing” and “revolutionary” , and after the Leaders debate in 2010 he surged in the polls. His popularity was labeled “Cleggmania” by the press. In 2010, Clegg changed British politics forever, when the 2010 general election results yielded a hung parliament. After five days of anxious deliberation, the Liberal Democrats decided to unite with the Tory Party and Nick Clegg became the Deputy Prime Minister. Unfortunately, Clegg found it difficult to secure his viewpoint within the minister’s cabinet, and conceded several of the Liberal Democrats foundational policies. Voters became disenchanted with Clegg and the Lib Dems and in the 2015 General election the

Is it possible therefore that the Conservative discourse of rebalancing actually contradicts the mutually beneficial relationship between austerity and financialisation that appears to have been at the heart of the coalition and Conservative governments’ economic policy agenda? This chapter argues not. The extent to which the public discourse on rebalancing actually propels economic policy-making in practice can of course be questioned (as with the discourse around austerity). Yet the chapter’s principal objection to the possibility that rebalancing contradicts austerity and financialisation by endorsing the notion of a finance-induced decline is that rebalancing discourse actually stops well short of endorsing the view that the UK economy (and the way it is governed), or any of its component sectors, is fundamentally flawed. The industrial and regional policy agenda to which it appears to have given rise offers little threat to the key elements of the pre-crisis growth model. Indeed, parts of this agenda constitute integral elements of the elite politics of austerity, insofar as austerity heralds an adjustment to the aspects of the pre-crisis growth model deemed most problematic, rather than its wholesale replacement. The chapter begins by documenting examples of coalition and Conservative rhetoric on rebalancing, and exploring its relationship with austerity. It then focuses consecutively on the most important dimensions of economic rebalancing, as espoused by policy elites in the post-crisis period; firstly, industrial policy, and secondly, devolution to

When David was asked about his legacy, especially the one who took out his country out of the European union, he just said that the economy would be stronger than ever. He later added that social reforms are essential for the greater good of United Kingdom. As of now, he has no decisions on what he's going to do next after his resignation as Witney's Conservative MP. Therese May thanked David Cameron for all of his efforts to make UK a better place, and she's proud to serve him until the

Political situation in UK is stable. Her Majesty’s Government, led by Prime Minister, David Cameron, from the Conservative Party is mainly concerned about the financial crisis affecting economies all over the world

Who wanted Brexit? Who voted for Brexit? The main support for Brexit came from a coalition party who was less educated, less financially successful and backed by older conservative voters who saw immigrants as a burden and felt left behind by modern life. These left-behind voters who supported Brexit they did not think of economy of their country. However there is not enough evidence that the leave vote was mainly determined by the desire of taking back the nations control from EU or by the voters who blames EU for their financial and social