Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1975, i whakakapia a Edward Heath hei kaiarahi Conservative e Margaret Thatcher. I raro i tana kaiarahi, ka hoki haere nga Conservatives ki te kaupapa here o te whakahee i te whakakorenga o Scotland. Heoi anō, ka taea tonu e te kaiārahi o mua, a Alec Douglas-Home, te akiaki i ngā kaiako ki te pōti 'kāore' ki te
Ko te tono a Labour i te tau 1979, me te kupu whakaari ka tukuna e te kawanatanga Conservative he pire "pai ake".