Teaching Activities

1. For each of the five issues in the table below, note down how each of the political groups on the left of the table would have responded.
   

   	The Welfare State	Membership of the EEC/EU	The ‘special relationship’ with the United States	State intervention in the economy	Immigration and Britain as a multicultural society
   Right-wing Conservative
   Moderate Conservative
   Liberal
   Moderate Labour
   Left-wing Labour

2. For each of the four prime ministers – Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair – list up to ten achievements and up to ten failures (divide your lists into three main headings: political, economic and social). Using these lists as evidence, assess which, if any, of the four deserve to be called ‘great’ prime ministers.