"after 1834. Except for a few irreconcilables the vast bulk of the Ultra-Tories would eventually move over to the Conservatives, with some like Knatchbull, enjoying political office in Peel's first government in 1834. However, when the party split again in 1846 over the issue of abolishing the Corn Laws – the remaining Ultra-Tories quickly rallied to the 'Protectionist' banner and helped to vote Peel out from office once again – this time for good. The ultra-Tories were civilian politicians. In practice they had the overwhelming support of the Anglican clergy and bishops, many of whom came under severe verbal attack"
"Tories (British political party) The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. The first Tories emerged in 1678 in England, when they opposed the Whig-supported Exclusion Bill which set out to disinherit the heir presumptive James, Duke of York, who eventually became James II of England and VII of Scotland. This party ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s, although it was used as"
"However, by 1859 the Peelites (Peel's Conservative supporters) joined the Whigs and Radicals to form the Liberal Party. The remaining Tories, centered under the leadership of the Earl of Derby (a former Whig) and Disraeli (once a Radical candidate for Parliament), adopted the ""Conservative"" label as the official name of their party. Tories (British political party) The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries. The first Tories emerged in"
"conservative parties. In the United Kingdom, the Conservative and Unionist Party, along with its members, are often referred to as ""Tory"" in the public, with the party frequently getting called the ""Tories"" by many media outlets. In Scotland, the term ""Tory"" is used predominantly in a derogatory way to describe members and supporters of the Conservative Party, or to accuse other parties of being insufficiently opposed to that party. For example, members and supporters of the Scottish Labour Party (especially those from the ""Blairite"" faction) may be referred to as ""Red Tories"" by traditional Labour members and advocates of an"
"Tory A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history. The Tory ethos has been summed up with the phrase ""God, King, and Country"". Tories generally advocate monarchism, and were historically of a high church Anglican religious heritage, opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction. The philosophy originates from the Cavalier faction, a royalist group during the English Civil War. The Tories political faction that emerged in 1681 was a reaction to"
"Radical Tory"". A moderate faction of the Australian Greens has been pejoratively dubbed the ""Tree Tories"" by the hard left faction. Tory A Tory () is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history. The Tory ethos has been summed up with the phrase ""God, King, and Country"". Tories generally advocate monarchism, and were historically of a high church Anglican religious heritage, opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction. The philosophy originates from the Cavalier"
"Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), in order to command a majority in the House of Commons through a confidence-and-supply deal. The party leader, Theresa May, has served as both Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister since July 2016. It is the largest party in local government with 9,008 councillors. The Conservative Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United Kingdom, the other being its modern rival, the Labour Party. The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 from the Tory Party—giving rise to the Conservatives' colloquial name of Tories—and was one of two dominant political"
"Tories. The two candidates polled only 1,108 votes between them and Braybrooke's candidacy in the 1966 general election attracted even less support. Hilton's True Tories failed to take off and he became associated with the 1960s British National Party, before the remnants of both the Patriotic Party and the True Tories were absorbed by the National Front upon its foundation in 1967. Patriotic Party (UK) The Patriotic Party was a far right political party in the United Kingdom. The group began life as the True Tories in 1962 when Major-General Richard Hilton, formerly a leading member of the League of"
"disaffected"". Despite the party's name and their position as ""rebel Tories"", some of their candidates and officials were from the European Movement and originally from parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour and the Liberal Democrats. The chief press officer Mark Littlewood was a Liberal Democrat who had also been a spokesman for the European Movement and later rejoined the Liberal Democrats. The party stood 84 candidates in the European Parliament elections, receiving 138,097 votes, or 1.4% of the vote and no seats. In the same election the United Kingdom Independence Party, which campaigns for withdrawal from the European"
"of the English Civil War. The Court Party soon became known as the Tories, a name that has stuck despite the official name being 'Conservative'. The term ""Tory"" originates from the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681 - the Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of the Roman Catholic Duke of York from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland, and the Tories were those who opposed it. Both names were originally insults: a ""whiggamore"" was a horse drover (See Whiggamore Raid), and a ""tory"" (""Tóraidhe"") was an Irish term for an outlaw, later applied to Irish Confederates and Irish"
"Conservative Party (UK) </noinclude> The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently the governing party, having been so since the 2010 general election, where a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats was formed. In 2015, the Conservatives led by David Cameron won a surprise majority and formed the first majority Conservative government since 1992. However, the snap election on 8 June 2017 resulted in a hung parliament, and the party lost its parliamentary majority. It is reliant on the support of a Northern Irish political party, the"
"Patriotic Party (UK) The Patriotic Party was a far right political party in the United Kingdom. The group began life as the True Tories in 1962 when Major-General Richard Hilton, formerly a leading member of the League of Empire Loyalists, set up his own nationalistic group with a membership largely made up of former military figures. The group adopted the ""Patriotic Party"" name for the 1964 general election and sponsored two candidates. During the campaign the party split, with Deputy Chairman and former Liberal Party election candidate Major Arthur Braybrooke continuing the Patriotic Party and General Hilton re-establishing the True"
"be elected in some areas. After thirteen years in opposition, the Conservatives returned to power as part of a coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats in 2010, going on to form a majority government in 2015. David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister in July 2016, which resulted in the appointment of the country's second female Prime Minister, Theresa May. The Conservative Party is the only party in the history of the United Kingdom to have been governed by a female Prime Minister. Historically, the party has been the mainland party most pre-occupied by British Unionism, as attested to by the"
"the UK, including: Muslims are playing an increasingly prominent role in political life. Fifteen Muslim MPs were elected in the June 2017 general election, and there are twelve Muslim peers in the House of Lords (there have historically been about fourteen, starting with Lord Stanley, a peer that lived in the 19th century). The vast majority of British Muslims vote for the Labour Party, however there are some high-profile Conservative Muslims, including former Minister for Faith and Communities and former Co-Chairman and the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, described by ""The Guardian"" as a 'rising star' in the Tory party. ""The"
"British Left The term British Left can refer to a range of political parties and movements in Britain. These can take the position of either centre-left, left-wing or far-left. The largest political party associated with the British left is the centre-left Labour Party, which is also the biggest political party in the UK by membership levels; with over 575,000 members. The Labour Party has 262 seats in the House of Commons, and has been the Official Opposition since May 2010. The current Leader of the Labour Party is Jeremy Corbyn, who was first elected on 13 September 2015. The largest"
"for adult women in 1928 after the Suffragette movement. Politics in the United Kingdom is multi-party, with three dominant political parties: the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party. The social structure of Britain, specifically social class, has ""long been pre-eminent among the factors used to explain party allegiance"", and still persists as ""the dominant basis"" of party political allegiance for Britons. The Conservative Party is descended from the historic Tory Party (founded in England in 1678), and is a centre-right conservative political party, which traditionally draws support from the middle classes. The Labour Party (founded by"
"Radio 4's ""Woman's Hour"" described her as Britain's second-most powerful woman after Queen Elizabeth II. On 30 November 2014, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the World Sikh University. In April 2017, during an official trip to Saudi Arabia, May was appointed to the Order of King Abdulaziz. That September, she was listed by ""Forbes"" as the second most powerful woman in the world, behind Angela Merkel. Theresa May Theresa Mary May (; ; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. She"
"the Conservative Director of Communications who upholds overall responsibility, though she has many staff supporting her, and the whole of CCHQ at election time, her department being one of the most predominant at this time, including Project Managers, Executive Assistants, Politicians, and Volunteers. The Conservative Party also has regional call centres and VoteSource do-it-from-home accounts. This chart shows the electoral performance of the Conservative Party in each general election since 1835. For results of the Tories, the party's predecessor, see here. Conservative Party (UK) </noinclude> The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in"
"Telegraph"" and ""The Guardian"" has marked them out as the young Tories to watch. Job done. Yet they’ve done it without doing any serious research, let alone thinking about what that research might mean. They have joined the political version of celebrity culture – the same culture that they argue, to some extent compellingly, makes Britons believe they can get on without doing any hard work."" Britannia Unchained Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity is a political book written by several British Conservative Party right-wing MPs. It was released on 13 September 2012. Its authors present a treatise,"
"7 May. On 8 October 2015, Conservatives for Britain announced its support for the Vote Leave campaign in the referendum on British membership of the EU, stressing in a statement the importance of establishing ""a professional, mainstream cross party campaign that can fight the referendum if the EU fails to allow fundamental change"". ""The Daily Telegraph"" reported on the new group's formation under the heading ""50 Tories plot Britain's EU exit"". ""The Guardian"" greeted it with the headline ""Meet the new 'bastards' – the Tories' fifty strong awkward squad"", referring to a famous outburst by John Major in the 1990s."
"in terms of the number of seats in the House of Commons, are the Conservative and Unionist Party and the Labour Party. The Scottish National Party has the second largest party membership, but a smaller number of MPs as it only fields candidates for constituencies in Scotland. The modern day Conservative Party was founded in 1834 and is an outgrowth of the Tory movement or party, which began in 1678. Today it is still colloquially referred to as the Tory Party and members/supporters referred to as ""Tories"". The Liberal Democrats or ""Lib Dems"" were founded in 1988 by an amalgamation"
"independent Scotland. Similarly, Labour supporters have referred to Scottish National Party members and supporters as being ""Tartan Tories"". In Australia, ""Tory"" is occasionally used as a pejorative term by members of the Australian Labor Party to refer to conservative members of the Liberal Party of Australia and National Party of Australia parties (who are in a long-standing coalition). The term is not used anywhere near as often as in the UK and Canada, and it is rare – though not unheard of – for members of those parties to self-describe as ""Tories"". Chief Justice Garfield Barwick titled his memoir ""A"
"As a predecessor party of the United Kingdom's Conservative and Unionist Party, its members, and the organization continue to be referred to as Tories. The term Tory or ""Loyalist"" was used in the American Revolution for those who remained loyal to the British Crown. Since early in the 18th century, Tory had described those upholding the right of the King over Parliament. During the war of independence, particularly after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, this use was extended to cover anyone who remained loyal to the British Crown. About 80% of the Loyalists remained in the United States after"
"in British English slang. British tabloids and American newspapers such as ""The Huffington Post"" of New York City often use the term ""Toff"" or ""Hooray Henry"" to describe the elite of the British Conservative Party; a 2012 article for instance referred to British Prime Minister David Cameron and the Tories as ""Cameron and the Hooray Henry brigade"". Lindsay Johns of the ""Daily Mail"" cited the Bullingdon Club, a socially exclusive student dining club at Oxford University of which Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson were former members, as a place for such people. She observed the ""jarring Hooray Henry lexicon"
"Theresa May Theresa Mary May (; ; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2016. She served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016. May was first elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead in 1997. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a one-nation conservative. May grew up in Oxfordshire and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1977 until 1983, she worked for the Bank of England, and from 1985 until 1997 at the Association for Payment Clearing Services, also serving as a councillor for"
"Scottish Conservatives The Scottish Conservatives (), officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, is the part of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that operates in Scotland. Describing itself as a “patriotic party of the Scottish centre-right”, it is the second-largest party in the Scottish Parliament and Scottish local government. It also sends the second-largest Scottish representation to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, after the SNP in each respect. The party is informally known as the Scottish Tories, due to the Conservative Party's historic links with the Tory Party. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is"
"of the electorate voted in 2002 for parties calling themselves Trotskyist. In Britain during the 1980s, the entryist Militant group operated within the Labour Party with three members of parliament and effective control of Liverpool City Council. Described by journalist Michael Crick as ""Britain's fifth most important political party"" in 1986, it played a prominent role in the 1989–1991 anti-poll tax movement which was widely thought to have led to the downfall of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Several far-left parties in Britain are Trotskyist in orientation, including the Socialist Workers Party, the Socialist Party (not to be confused with"
"been the two biggest parties since 1922, and have supplied all Prime Ministers since 1935. Both parties changed their leader after the 2015 election. David Cameron, who had been the leader of the Conservative Party since 2005 and Prime Minister since 2010, was replaced in July 2016 by Theresa May following the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union. Jeremy Corbyn replaced Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in September 2015, and was re-elected leader in September 2016. While the Liberal Democrats and their predecessors had long been the third-largest"
"to Labour's defeat in the 2010 election. It was replaced by a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, headed by David Cameron, that pursued a series of public spending cuts to reduce the budget deficit. In June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union. Conservatives replaced Cameron with Theresa May. After the Second World War, the landslide 1945 election returned the Labour Party to power and Clement Attlee became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The party quickly nationalised critical sectors of the economy, especially declining industries. The Bank of England was nationalised along with railways (see Transport Act 1947), coal"
"with 418 seats in the House of Commons, its highest ever total, while the Conservatives took only 165, their worst performance since the general election of 1906. In 1997, the Conservatives did not win a single seat in Scotland or in Wales. Little changed at the 2001 General Election, with Labour taking 413 seats, the Conservatives 166, the Liberal Democrats 52 and the others 28. The historian Sir Raymond Carr, writing in ""The Spectator"", said: The Strange Death of Tory England The Strange Death of Tory England is a book of political commentary by the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft, published in"
"acclamation"" or ""ratified"" by the general membership (sometimes the term ""anointed"" occurs informally or in media discourse). The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, gained the position on 13 July 2016; she had served as the party leader of the Conservative Party since 13 July 2016. Jeremy Corbyn is the party leader the Labour Party, serves as the Leader of the Opposition. The United States government has party leaders in both the executive and legislative branches. The President, currently Donald Trump, becomes the de facto leader of the party they represent once elected, and the Vice President, currently"
"Guardian"" stated that ""The treasury minister is highly regarded on the right and would be the Tories' first Muslim leader."" Salma Yaqoob is the former leader of the left-wing Respect Party. Sayeeda Warsi, who was the first Muslim to serve in a British cabinet, was appointed by David Cameron in 2010 as a minister without portfolio. She was made a senior minister of state in 2012. In August 2014 she resigned over the government's approach to the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. Muslim political parties in Britain have included the People's Justice Party (UK), a Pakistani and Kashmiri party that won city"
"2001. The Tories (or Abhorrers) and Whigs (or Petitioners) originated in the Court and Country parties that emerged in the aftermath of the civil war, although it is more accurate to describe them as loose tendencies, both of which might be regarded as conservative in modern terms. Modern party politics did not really begin to coalesce in Great Britain until at least 1784. In 1832 the Tory Party evolved into the Conservative Party and in 1859 the Whig Party evolved, with Radicals and Peelites, into the Liberal Party. In opposition to Irish home rule, the Liberal Unionists ceded from the"