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- The British Unionist Party (BUP) is a Scottish unionist political party founded in December 2015 as A Better Britain – Unionist Party by activists from the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence. Unlike the mainstream unionist parties, it is critical of the devolution process, which it views as a "slow road to separation".
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The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. Independent of, although associated with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales, it stood for election at different periods of its history in alliance with a small number of Liberal Unionist and National Liberal candidates.
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Unionism in Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Aonachas) is a political movement which favours the continuation of the political union between Scotland and the other countries of the United Kingdom (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), and hence is opposed to Scottish independence.
The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba, Scots: Scots Tory an Unionist Pairty, often known simply as the Scottish Conservatives and colloquially as the Scottish Tories) is part of the Conservative Party (UK) active in Scotland.
Feb 15, 2022 · The Scottish Unionist Party (SUP), originally formed in 1986 in protest at Margaret Thatcher’s Anglo-Irish Agreement, has been re-registered with the Electoral Commission (EC) after not running candidates in major elections since 2007.
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The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. [1] Contents. Origins. Ethos and appeal. Electoral record and the 1955 general election. Merger with the Conservative Party. Consequences of merger. Electoral performance. Party Chairmen. Footnotes. Further reading. External links.
The Scottish Unionist party was deeply rooted in the political and intellectual history of Scotland, and brought together a Tory legacy of romantic nationalism with a Whig tradition of assimilation. The party thrived in the context of a politics still heavily infiltrated and conditioned by religious faith.
Sep 8, 2017 · It opposes further devolution, referendums, and backs Brexit. Despite being in submarine mode, the party has stood candidates in the 2017 council elections and the 2016 Scottish parliamentary elections. “Unionist Party humiliates SNP,” it declared after Thursday’s by-election result.
