Conservative Party

consensus democracies. In Lijphart’s model, there are two main ideas in which these two systems differ: how easy it is for a single party to take control of the government and how much a party can change policy once they have control of the government. The first includes ideas such as party affiliations of the cabinet, executive-legislative relations, number of political parties, electoral systems, and interest group affiliation ("Constitutional Choices"). The second includes topics of federal…

Every Wednesday, current Prime Minister, David Cameron, meets in the House of Commons for half an hour to answer questions from Members of Parliament. These questions are meant to address current events both international and domestic, and have come to be known as Prime Minister Questions (PMQs). All Members of Parliament must write their questions for the Prime Minister on the Order Paper several days prior to the PMQs. Once submitted, the questions are then sorted through, scrambled, and…

He was Powerful and Above All, or So He Thought. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, introduce us with characters too fantastic, or too realistic and bring us to the world of magical realism. Throughout the story a reader encounters many of these characters and is wrapped in the story which enables them to see the development of major round characters, such as Esteban Trueba. He is a character that with a few chapters into the book is seen as the evil protagonist. Esteban develops…

Outline why it is sometimes argued that the public and private sectors have converged since 1979 and consider to what extent you agree that this is the case Since 1979, there has been a global shift in the provision of public services, from solely public sector, to a greater involvement of the private sector. Until just over thirty years ago, the public sector was to abide by strict rules and codes of conduct with regards to management, known as Public Administration. However, it was recognised…

politics at a rather young age because her father was a member of the town council, and when she went off to college, she became the president of Oxford University’s Conservative Association (Biography.com Editors). This early exposure and experience with political responsibility…

called the Iron Lady. She was born on October 13 1925 and she was the Conservative Party’s leader. 1979 she was elected as prime minister. Her beliefs and policies caused her to become unpopular with her party and many citizens of the UK. Baroness Thatcher resigned from her position due to her unpopularity in 1990. She died on April 8 2013 at the age of 87 years old. Similarly Boris Johnson is also a member of the conservative party, he is the current Mayor of London and is a subject of…

Of the 193 countries that are members of the United Nations, very few have what is commonly referred to as an uncodified or an unwritten constitution. Of those countries, even fewer are considered to be democracies. The United Kingdom is one of those nations that falls under this category; however, unlike most other democracies that have come into effect through a revolution or a change in regime that in turn instils a new legal system from scratch, the United Kingdom’s ‘uncodified’ legal system…

Denis Thatcher was a very wealthy man. Later that same year they had two children Mark and Carol Thatcher. But in 1952 Margaret put politics aside to study law. After law school she gained the notice of the Conservation Party. Margaret Thatcher was called the Iron lady. When she was serving as a secretary of education in the 1970’s, Margaret ended the free milk program for school children between the ages of 7 and 11. Many politics in the media labeled her “Thatcher the…

The loss of political power in 1925 to the conservatives unwittingly drove Mackenzie king into causing the king-Byng affair. Before the elections of 1925 king was especially confident in himself and his party in winning the election. The reason as to why he was so very assured in his winning the election was due to his relations with a psychic. He consulted with a psychic known as Mrs. Bleaney on whether or not he would win the up and coming election this psychic communicated with the spirits in…

The Iron Lady “I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime” (Thatcher). These were the words of one of the most influential women in modern day Britain, who, ironically, was Britain’s first female prime minister and held the position for longer than any other twentieth century prime minister. Margaret Thatcher is known, above all, for the aforementioned, but is also known for the work she did while in this prestigious office. Thatcher achieved many great feats while in…