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Ideology

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Fun-fact: has roots back to the 1600s.

Ideas

  • Pro-church
  • Pro-monarchy
  • Free-trade
  • Traditional (values)
  • Authority (law and order)
  • Strong national defence
  • Pragmatism

%% Disraeli - one nation convolution - improved the life of the poor, scared of revolution (lots of other European countries were killing off their monarchy, done out of fear), free-trade (repeal of corn laws which massive tariffs on importing corn), order and stability Churchill - WWII, strong defence Thatcher - capitalist (associated with the “New Right”), deregulation, privatisation, free-market principles

Disraeli - stability Churchill - law and order, traditional values Thatcher - free-market/trade %%