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According to the Department for Education's advice for maintained schools in 2014, "Schools should promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs". [22]
The British Empire began granting independence to all its Colonies from India, to Africa to the Pacific. The last instance of capital punishment in the United Kingdom was carried out in 1964. It was formally abolished under the Human Rights Act 1998. Harold Wilson allows individual petitions to Strasbourg in 1968.
The Liberty of the Ancients was a participatory republican liberty, [99] which gave the citizens the right to influence politics directly through debates and votes in the public assembly. [98] In order to support this degree of participation, citizenship was a burdensome moral obligation requiring a considerable investment of time and energy.
The uneven path of British Liberalism: From Jo Grimond to Brexit (2nd ed. 2019). Laybourn, Keith. "The rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism: the state of the debate." History 80.259 (1995): 207–226, historiography. Mehta, Uday Singh. Liberalism and empire: A study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought (U of Chicago Press, 1999).
By the First World War, the Liberal Party had largely abandoned classical liberal principles. [47] The changing economic and social conditions of the 19th century led to a division between neo-classical and social (or welfare) liberals, who while agreeing on the importance of individual liberty differed on the role of the state.
Populism is a form of majoritarianism, threatening some of the core principles of liberal democracy, such as the rights of the individual. Examples of these can vary from freedom of movement via control on immigration, or opposition to liberal social values such as gay marriage. [112]
The freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
The values that a person holds may be personal or political depending on whether they are considered in relation to the individual or to society. [1] Apart from moral virtue, examples of personal values include friendship, knowledge, beauty etc. and examples of political values, justice, equality and liberty.