Conservative+Party

=**CONSERVATIVE PARTY**=




 * **The Political Party’s General Principles:** Party believes that collective strength will overpower our problems, and that real change comes when the people are inspired and encouraged to play a part in the nation’s future. Party also emphasizes the problems debt has caused and how heavily it has impacted society and therefore needs to be changed.


 * **Economic Crisis- Financial Stability Programme:** believe Labour Party left the economy in chaos; want to eliminate the structural deficit. Party has chosen to prioritise the NHS, schools, security and the infrastructure that they believe will help their economy grow. In order to do so, the party seeks to reform welfare and cut waste. The party does plan to withdraw Child Benefit from households with one or more higher-rate taxpayers – about 15% of families. Created an agreement with banks which will make a fair contribution by introducing a permanent Bank Levy which will raise £2.5 billion every year got the banks to lend £190 billion of new credit to business this year, up from £179 billion in 2010. They strive to make the Corporation Tax to change from 28% to 24% over four years which would be the lowest rate in the G7.




 * **Healthcare and NHS:** Party is committed to an NHS that is free at the point of use and available to everyone based on need, not the ability to pay, want free NHS staff from political micromanagement, increase democratic accountability and give patients the power to choose the treatments that are best for them. They also plan to cut the cost of NHS administration by £5 billion and reinvest this money to support doctors and nurses on the front line. Party seeks to establish an independent NHS board to distribute resources and provide commissioning guidelines. The party has created the Cancer Drugs Fund. They want to stop the top-down reconfigurations of NHS services which was imposed from Whitehall rather than led by the local NHS, family doctors and local communities.


 * **Immigration:** Believes that the Labour Party placed unacceptable pressure on public services due to unlimited immigration. Seeks to reduce the level of net migration to sustainable levels down from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands. Party will create a Border Police Force, as part of the new National Crime Agency, to improve national security, advance immigration controls and crack down on the trafficking of people, drugs and weapons. Party is also clamping down on abuses of the student visa route which they believe has had widespread abuse.


 * **Environment- Global Warning:** Party seeks to improve the quality of life and well-being. Also believe that much more needs to be done to support the farming industry, protect biodiversity and encourage sustainable food production. The Party has launched a national tree planting campaign, secured a historic deal at Nagoya which will protect important wildlife and habitats around the world, and are in the process of drawing up Marine Conservation Zones.


 * **Foreign Policy**:  an active member of the global community, wants to safeguard the UK's national security and support their Armed Forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere, wants peace in the Middle East, a closer engagement with China, while standing firm on human rights, a close and frank relationship with the United States, promote stability in the Western Balkans, and prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.




 * **International (EU): ** Want to be a constructive member of the United Nations, NATO and other multilateral organisations including the Commonwealth, and is pushing for reform of global institutions.


 * <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Education:** Party wants to <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">close the gap between the richest and poorest pupils. Plan includes doubling the size of Teach First, stopping funding for teacher trainees who do not have a lower second degree or better, and making it easier to search pupils for banned items. Party is trying to remove the requirement on teachers to give 24 hours’ notice for detention and want to make clear that teachers may use reasonable force or physical restraint to control disruptive pupils. Also want to review the National Curriculum with teachers and experts and expand the academies programme, giving head teachers greater freedoms over teachers’ pay, the curriculum, control of budgets and structure of the school day.


 * <span style="font-family: 'cambria','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**Democracy-Devolution:** The Party is trying to shift the power towards the people more than the government. Wants to get the people more involved in the political world, and are creating legislation to reduce the power of the members of Parliament.