Powerful trade unions also interfere excessively with labour markets, driving up wages artificially, reducing corporate profits, and so dampening economic activity and investment.

Excessive welfare benefits reduce the dynamism of the economy. They enocurage people to remain unemployed and are a disincentive to work. This is called "dependency cutlure".

Free markets - for goods, finance and labour - are virtually always seen to be more effcetive in creating wealth than economies with too much external interference. Markets should not be regulated by the state.

High taxation is a disincentive to economic activity. Taxes should therefore be kept low as an incentive to hard work and wealth creation by businesses because individuals and firms will keep more of their income as a reward for enterprise.

Economic interference is always counterproductive, causing inflation and alack of dynamism.

Lwa and order are crucial to maintaining seucrity and promoting individualsim. The state should therefore be authoritarian in nature.

Neo-conservatives are normally nationalistic. They see patriotism and support for the united nation as important means by which social order can be maintained.

A loose attitude to morality and lifestyles can lead to a breakdown in social ordre. The movement is, therefore, socially conservative, believing in the retention and restoration of traditional values.

Internationally, noe-conservatives are suspicious of multinational associations such as the EU. They also believe that foreign policy should represent the pursuit of the nation's own interests above all else.

Conservatives are reluctant to reform the constitution and have effectively blocked reform of both the House of Lords and the electoral system.

The party is also strongly unionist in that it opposes policies that might promote independence movements in the nation's regions.

The Conservative Party has led the way towards more effective emissions control.

It is also committed to promotnig renewable energy sources, though it prefers nuclear to wind.