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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.
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.
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Jan 29, 2021 · UK. The quiet collapse of Scottish unionism. How the distinctive creed of “standing up for Scotland” within the UK has been replaced by one-size Britishness. By Scott Hames. The Scottish Saltire and the Union Flag flutter above Stirling Castle on 7 August 2019. (Photo By: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)
- Scott Hames
Unionist Party (Scotland), centre-right party which existed between 1912 and 1965, the dominant force in Scottish politics until the late 1950s. Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, the full name of the party since 1965 more often called the Scottish Conservative Party.
Feb 15, 2022 · The Scottish Unionist Party has 're-registered'. THE Tories have “bigger things to worry about” than a new “Scottish Unionist Party” that wants civil servants fired for working on independence, according to polling expert Professor John Curtice.
- Laura Webster
The two unions survived because the party structure in the two kingdoms, Ireland and Scotland, provided a critical support. In Scotland, for most of the three year hundred years after 1707, a (sometimes grudging) unionism dominated the country's electoral politics and representation at Westminster.
A broader definition, however, reveals what this article calls the ‘nationalist unionism’ of the Scottish Unionist Party (1912–65), and its surprisingly nuanced view of Scottish national identity as well as Scotland's place in the UK.
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