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The Conservative Party (also known as Tories) is the oldest political party in the United Kingdom [1] and arguably the world. [2] The current party was first organised in the 1830s and the name "Conservative" was officially adopted, but the party is still often referred to as the Tory party (not least because newspaper editors find it a ...
The policies were instituted by all governments, both Labour and Conservative, in the post-war period. The consensus has been held to characterise British politics until the economic crises of the 1970s (see Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975 ) which led to the end of the post-war economic boom and the rise of monetarist economics.
The United Kingdom does not have a written constitution to this day. In the 19th century, sources of constitutional law in the United Kingdom included: Positive law, comprising fundamental legal acts such as Magna Carta (1215), the Triennial Act 1640, [3] the Habeas Corpus Act 1679, the Bill of Rights 1689, and the Act of Settlement 1701;
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, [14] is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party. The party sits on the centre-right [21] to right-wing [28] of the political spectrum.
During the early 18th century, Great Britain was undergoing a government shift into a two party system.The leading conservative political grouping, the Tories, was the primary political party, but at the turn of the 18th century the Whigs, a liberal faction, had begun to rise in influence. [1]
The Conservative Party is currently the primary opposition party in the United Kingdom. On the political spectrum the party has been described as right-wing [9] by various sources and as centre-right [10] by others, and encompasses various ideological factions including one-nation conservatives, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatives.
The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today. Ireland, tariffs and welfare: the Conservatives faced partisan divides in the early 1900s too Skip to ...
The Peelites numbered about a third of the old Conservative party in the House of Commons following the 1847 general election. Their main political positions at that time were closer to the Protectionist Conservatives than to the Whigs and Radicals in parliament, except on the issue of free trade.