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21 hours ago · The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, [19] is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. It is the current governing party, having won the 2019 general election, and has been the primary governing party in the United Kingdom since ...
- Two-party System
A two-party system is a political party system in which two...
- History of The Conservative Party (Uk)
Robert Peel, founder and first Conservative Party Prime...
- Two-party System
4 days ago · In other countries these actors fully displace previously dominant parties of the centre-right and usurp their role as the conservative force of their party system. In the UK the first coherent national-conservative projects in the way we understand the term were the platforms of post-Brexit prime ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
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5 days ago · It was once a truism of modern British historiography that the history of the Conservative party was grievously understudied. This has not been the case for some time: things began to change with the pioneering work of the late John Ramsden in the 1970s, and then from the 1980s as historians such as Philip Williamson began to offer significant reassessments of aspects of the party’s past.
2 days ago · 1945 general election – 11.8% swing from Conservative/National Liberal to Labour [1] 1997 general election – 10.2% swing from Conservative to Labour. 1906 general election – 5.4% swing from Conservative to Liberal. 1979 general election – 5.3% swing from Labour to Conservative.
3 days ago · The opposition Labour Party’s lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday.
4 days ago · Reader Nicholas Hazelton, who said he is “terrified at the prospect of a Keir Starmer government”, outlined a worst-case scenario in the event of a substantial defection from the Conservatives ...
4 days ago · Rees-Mogg’s logic goes that it will pull together the right’s vote and present a united front to the electorate. It’s an idea he’s advocated for some time, notably in 2013 when fears were ...
