What are the major ideas of the modern conservative party?
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What are the major ideas of the modern conservative party? Within the conservative party there are three main strands of conservatism. The first is traditional or 'one nation' conservatism, which is primarily concerned with the consensus in addition to comprise. This specific strand holds strong conventions on the acceptance of the need for welfare state and other aspects such as strong support for property ownership. Aside from this Thatcherism is aimed more prominently to destruct the post war consensus, therefore grasps powerful beliefs on the importance of free labour plus other ideas such as traditional moral values. Finally the last strand is the Authoritarian conservatism which focuses close with Thatcherism rather than the one nation Toryism, thus extremely authoritarian on law, order and moral issues. From this, the strands which presently exist to some extent in modern conservatism are a mixture of Thatcherism and one nation Toryism due to a mixture...


