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The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Kemi Badenoch , who was elected to the position on 2 November 2024, following her victory against Robert Jenrick in the party's ...
The 2024 Conservative Party leadership election was announced on 5 July 2024 when then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared his intention to resign as Conservative Party leader following the party's defeat at the 2024 general election. The leadership race commenced on 24 July and concluded on 31 October. [2]
Poilievre's first year as leader saw the Conservatives holding a narrow lead over the Liberals according to most opinion polls. During the summer of 2023, the Conservatives experienced a surge in polling support, [153] with their lead increasing to the double-digits. [154] Poilievre has made repeated calls for a general election. [155]
The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Anglican but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of former party leaders ...
Interim leader, served concurrently as Senate Opposition Leader. 1st: Stephen Harper: 20 March 2004: 19 October 2015 Acting: 19 October 2015 – 4 November 2015: Calgary Southwest, Alberta: First official leader of the modern Conservative Party of Canada; Served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 2004–2006, and Prime Minister from 2006 ...
Less than a week after Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the likely end of his marriage, his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre launched an ad narrated by his wife touting ...
VIENNA (Reuters) -Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) leader Herbert Kickl called on the conservative People's Party (OVP) to be "honest" in their imminent coalition talks or face the prospect ...
billionaire industrialist and donor to conservative organizations and candidates [139] [145] Richard Land: 1946– former lobbyist for the Southern Baptist Convention [147] Robert Mercer: 1946– donor to conservative organizations such as Breitbart News [148] Franklin Graham: 1952– evangelist and political activist [149] Tony Perkins: 1963–