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The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.
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The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis, when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds of his Catholicism.
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Liberalism portal. United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s.
- 1859; 164 years ago
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1678; 345 years ago
May 21, 2018 · Tories. The Tories were one of the two main political parties between the later 17th and mid-19th cents. Their existence as a parliamentary ‘party’ was not continuous but evolved and changed over time in response to issues and personalities, their party pretensions sometimes weakened by division, or disappearing entirely.
History of the Whigs. The Whig supremacy was first seen during the Exclusion Bill crisis where they were against the Roman Catholic brother of King Charles II, the Duke of York – James II. Their rivals, the Tories were in support of absolute monarchy and against the Exclusion Bill.
The Tories were a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. They first emerged during the 1679 Exclusion Crisis , when they opposed Whig efforts to exclude James, Duke of York from the succession on the grounds of his Catholicism .
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