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What are the main policy areas that divide the Labour and Conservative Parties?
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Political Parties Questions a) What is a political party? A political party is an organised group of people who share common policy preferences and usually a general ideological position. The group also seeks, or has, political power. Parties generally emerge by two methods; either a group of people with similar ideas who unite in order to gain elective power (e.g. Tories becoming the Conservative Party and Whigs becoming the Liberal Party). Or, the party may be organised from the grass roots in order to seek the election of representatives of certain interests to the legislature (e.g. the British Labour Party). Some parties form with little hope of winning power or gaining seats in order to promote awareness of their cause (e.g. The Green Party, concerned with the environment). Such single-issue campaigns can only be regarded as belonging to a party rather than a pressure group if a general programme for government accompanies them. b) What...
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