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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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
Apr 22, 2021 · Getty Images. In the 2014 referendum 55% of people in Scotland voted "no" to independence. By Nick Eardley. BBC political correspondent. In the second of a two-part series looking at the...
