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The party, which has been on a push to boost its membership in recent weeks, has seen a number of significant Conservative defections to its ranks, including former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns ...
In 2010 the Conservative Party had about 177,000 members according to activist Tim Montgomerie, [277] and in 2013 membership was estimated by the party itself at 134,000. [278] The Conservative Party had a membership of 124,000 in March 2018. [279] In May 2019 its membership was thought to be around 160,000, with over half of its members being ...
Membership of political parties has been in decline in the UK since the 1950s, falling by over 65% from 1983 (4 per cent of the electorate) to 2005 (1.3 per cent). [1] In 2022, 1.5% of the British electorate were members of the Conservative Party, Labour Party, or the Liberal Democrats. [2]
A record number of Conservative MPs lost their seats at the election. Three Cabinet members stood down; eight full members and four who attended Cabinet lost their seats, the highest number of sitting cabinet seat losses in history. [1]
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured the defection of a third former Conservative MP in as many months after Marco Longhi announced he was joining the party. His move is another blow to new Tory ...
Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be crowned as the new Conservative Party leader on Saturday.
This is a list of members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the House of Lords, British members of the European Parliament, members of the British devolved legislatures (such as the Scottish Parliament, Senedd, and Northern Ireland Assembly) and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) who have changed their party affiliation (i.e. abandoning a previous party membership to take up a ...
121 Conservative Party members of Parliament (MPs) out of the 650 constituencies were elected to the House of Commons at the 4 July 2024 general election, [1] the lowest number in its history. [2] Party leader Kemi Badenoch is shown in bold.