John Major's government; Towards a new consensus A Level History AQA
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Making of Modern Britain
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AQA
PowerPoint on the fifth module of the A Level History course The Making of Modern Britain. This includes all the information necessary to obtain confidence on the section, giving details on the political, cultural, social, and economic changes in the 1990s. The PowerPoint is 64 slides, giving a ful...
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• By 1990, inflation had risen to 10.9 per cent.
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Nigel Lawson
• Conservatives went unpopular because of poll tax- budget) – led
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• Sir Geoffrey Howe resigned. problems.
• Heseltine leadership battle with Thatcher.
• Labour’s recovery under Neil Kinnock and John Smith was Conservati
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,Major as leader
• Thatcherites saw him as ‘one of them’.
• Major’s natural instincts was to unify the party.
• Major’s first task involved foreign affairs and Europe- Britain was
already fighting the First Gulf War, which reached a successful
conclusion in 1991.
• At home, Major needed to deal with poll tax- abandoned in favour
the new council tax.
• Major called the election in March 1992.
• Opinion polls placed the Conservatives on average 29 per cent, wit
Labour ahead on 41 per cent and the Liberals at 15 per cent.
• Most observers predicted a Labour victory.
• The Conservatives ran a good campaign- Major won a lot of respec
for his ‘soapbox’ politics, making speeches in towns (like Luton).
• Labour’s weaknesses mattered as much as the Conservatives-
memories from the 1980s were still too strong.
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