liberal democrat party
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- Liberal Democrat Party
- origins
- formed from two different parties
- the liberal party and the social democratic party
- used to be one of the leading parties before ww1 the n got pushed to third by labour
- formed from two different parties
- types
- Social Liberals
- The centre-left of the party, associated with the ideas of modern liberals, are associated with the desire to increase social justice
- Orange Book Liberals
- lean central, and support choice and competition. linked to classical liberalism, and aim to increase social mobility via economic freedom for disadvantaged backgrounds, along with cutting taxes
- Orange book liberals include Nick Clegg and Sir Ed Davey
- Social Liberals
- ideas
- ideology based on freedom
- including individusl freedom and freedom of trade
- social liberalism focuses oon liberl form of social democracy
- electoral reform for a proportional system is a top priority as they won 26% of the votes in 1983 but only 23 seats in the HOC
- consistently support the EU
- ideology based on freedom
- developments
- Tony Blair consisdered a coalition but his landslide meant that he didnt need it
- liberal democrats used 46 seats in '97 with leader paddy ashdown
- best result in 2005 with 62 seats with leader charles kennedy
- due to the party's opposition to the Iraq war
- nick clegg became leader in 2007 and had the first experience of a libveral gov in the colitiion of 2010-2015
- the coalition caused economic austerity and reduced public spending alienating many liberals
- the party had to accept the Conservative’s manifesto pledges, it had little choice but to accept some unpopular decisions. This included tripling tuition fees to over £9,000 per year.
- the coalition erased the lib dems unique idenity
- 2015 election was disastrous with them only getting 8 seats
- clegg resigned
- campaigned for remain heavily during Brexit- they hoped to attract angry remainders in the 2017 election but thy only got 1 seats
- ed davey elected as leader in 2021 and said economic situation qas his top proiority
- Tony Blair consisdered a coalition but his landslide meant that he didnt need it
- origins
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