A Tale of Two Parties

2022-11-02

Visualisation

Data

Policies and parliament votes data were scraped using the rvest package from Public Whip

House	Date	Subject	Policy.vote	PolicyLink	Party	Vote	Vote.Count	description	policy_type	political_leaning
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Con	FOR	0	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Con	OTHER	122	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Con	OTHER	0	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Con	OTHER	39	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Lab	FOR	342	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right
Commons	2002-06-11	Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected	MAJORITY	https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2002-06-11&house=commons&number=263	Lab	OTHER	0	Make seeking asylum more difficult	Home Office	Right

General election and party leader information came from Wikipedia pages for Labour Party and Conservative Party

Left / Right Policies

On Public Whip, a “Policy” is a set of votes that represent a view on a particular issue. Policies are maintained through a Wiki, so are managed by the Public Whip community. For this visualisation, I have only used policies which can easily be classified as politically left (in favour of higher taxes, welfare support, government regulation of business, social equality, and progressive social views) or right (in favour of lower taxes, individual freedom, less business regulation, privatisation, and traditional social views)

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