Would You Argue That the Conservatives Dominate the Coalition Government?

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Would you argue that the Conservatives dominate the Coalition Government? Over many years, the UK political arena was simply a duopoly of the two main stream parties, the Conservatives and the Labour Party. Coalition government is a rare term in the dictionary of UK Politics. Nevertheless, in 2010, a majority coalition was formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which was Britain’s first coalition in 65 years since the national coalition government in the 1930s due to the Second World War. Notwithstanding, the phenomenon of one party dominating the government has never changed even in the 2010 coalition government. It is true that the Conservatives had compromise to a great extent in the issue of civil liberties which they agreed to introduce a Freedom Bill instead of abolishing the Human Rights Act. But does it mean that the Conservatives are no longer dominating the government? The answer to this is an absolute “No”. Since David Cameron took over the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2005, he carried out a number of reform policies to “modernise” the Conservative Party. Most of his social policies are generally described as an idea of “big society”. Cameron proposed that the Government should allow communities to take more control of services within their own areas, which in other words, more power should be dispersed to local government, authorities and the people. In the meantime, the Liberal Democrats under the leadership of Nick Clegg tends to adopt policies of Liberal and Socialist values. However, what we can see in the coalition agreement made in 2010 is that they agreed to promote a fair and responsible government which closely related to David Cameron’s “Big Society” ideology. This is well illustrated in the foreword part of the coalition agreement signed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg which it states that “We share a conviction
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