SKIP CONTENT CAMBERWELL PECKHAM CONSERVATIVES NAVIGATION ABOUT US PEOPLE EVENTS CONTACT BRIEF HISTORY THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY TWEET STUART SCHOOL HISTORICAL UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER INTRODUCTION PHASES PERIODS MODERN BRITISH HISTORY DOMINANT GOVERNING SUFFERED SPELLS POLITICAL RELEVANT PROGRAMME OUTLOOK CHANGING SOCIAL NEVER ISSUE CONTINUITY FACT ALWAYS STOOD STABILITY RIGHTS OF PROPERTY ORIGINS FACTION SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HOLD ON GOVERNMENT UNITY THE PARTY THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ROBERT FULL POLITICAL EMANCIPATION ROMAN TORY COLLAPSE THE WAY RETURN OF WHIGS 1830S THE GREAT REFORM ACT OF 1832 CHANGED THE GENERAL ELECTION THE ACT TORIES REDUCED THE WAKE NAME PEEL RALLY REFORM DRAWING SUPPORT PRIME MINISTER WINNING THE ELECTION DECISION REVERSE COURSE REPEAL PROTECTIONIST CORN LAWS SPLIT DISRAELI MODERN CONSERVATISM CONTINUOUS MODERN HISTORY BEGINS THE ERA THE STRONGEST THE MANY CLAIMS WHIG MINISTRY MINORITY CONSERVATIVE ADMINISTRATION EARL OF DERBY TACKLE THE QUESTION THE FRANCHISE SECOND REFORM ACT OF 1867 BOLD STROKE PROTECT CREDIBILITY VOTERS TOWNS THE AIM IMPROVING PROSPECTS HERE THE CENTRAL PILLARS THE NATIONAL UNION MODEST GATHERING LANDMARK FORTUNES DOMESTIC APPEAL URBAN MIDDLE CLASSES SAME TIME FORGED LINK PATRIOTIC PRIDE NATION ECONOMIC PROBLEMS REVIVAL LIBERAL SPIRITS LONGER THE DEFENDER ARISTOCRATIC ELITE BECOMING NATIONAL PRESENCE COMMUNITIES COMBINATION FIRST PERIOD DOMINANCE SECTION THE LIBERAL PARTY LORD HARTINGTON JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN ACCEPT POLICY HOME RULE FOR IRELAND BROKE AWAY LIBERAL UNIONISTS GAVE INFORMAL LORD SALISBURY OFFICE JUNIOR PARTNER SALISBURY POWER 1890S DISPLACED TERM SUPPORTERS SCOTLAND ARTHUR BALFOUR LORD NEPHEW PERIOD WORST DIVISIONS TARIFF REFORM GROUP FREE FEARS DUTIES FOOD IMPORTS RAISE THE COST OF LIVING ELECTORAL INTERNAL CAUSED PURGE THE CABINET CAUSE LANDSLIDE LEFT DIVIDED RESISTANCE THE LIBERAL REFORM OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS FINALLY RESIGNED ORGANISATIONAL THE POST PARTY CHAIRMAN THE WORK UNEXPECTED ANDREW BONAR LAW RESTORED PARTY MORALE THE GOVERNMENT ULSTER THE PASSAGE IRISH HOME RULE BILL FIRST WORLD WAR THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE POSITION ADVOCACY PROSECUTION THE WAR POPULARITY THE SPLITS DECLINE MAY 1915 JOIN COALITION PRIME CONCERNED LACK DIRECTION LEADERS ASQUITH ENERGETIC CHARISMATIC DAVID LLOYD GEORGE VICTORY LLOYD GEORGE THE HEIGHT BONAR LAW THE COALITION SHOULD CONTINUE ORDER PROBLEMS OF PEACE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION INCREASINGLY UNPOPULAR LOCAL REASONS AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN REVOLT CHAMBERLAIN THE MEETING CARLTON CLUB VICTORIOUS THUS LEADER ASCENDANCY THE FALL EVENT POLITICS BETWEEN THE WARS MARKED RETURN NORMAL PARTY POLITICS LABOUR THE LIBERALS STANLEY BALDWIN DYING LEADING DECEMBER 1923 ASSAULT POSITION BALDWIN LARGEST IN THE HOUSE COMMONS FOR ALL HALF THE CRISIS AUGUST 1931 SERVE RAMSAY MACDONALD LARGEST ELEMENT MACDONALD HANDED THE PREMIERSHIP CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN CONTROVERSY APPEASEMENT ALMOST ALL LESS SUITED THE NORWAY DEBATE MAY 1940 FORCED RESIGNATION WINSTON CRITIC CHURCHILL THE NATION PRESTIGE SHELTER POPULAR BLAME MAJOR THE CENTURY CONSENSUS SETBACK WHILST IN OPPOSITION ORGANISATION 1940S THE EARLY 1970S ACCEPTED WELFARE STATE THE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP CERTAIN GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION ECONOMIC AFFAIRS PARTNERSHIP INDUSTRY TRADE UNIONS RATHER POLICIES REGAIN THE KEY ANTHONY EDEN APRIL 1955 FAILED SUEZ INVASION HAROLD MACMILLAN BUTLER TWICE ON THE BRINK ALEC SUDDEN MIRED ECONOMIC STAGNATION PUBLIC LINEAGE EASY TARGET MERITOCRATIC CAMPAIGN LOST GROUND IN AUGUST FORMAL LEADERSHIP ELECTION BALLOT CHANGE LEADERSHIP THE VICTOR EDWARD HEATH WHOSE BACKGROUND THOUGHT PUBLICLY IMAGE OF HEATH LOSS SEATS AFFECTION BACKBENCHERS GENERAL PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT TAKING BRITAIN THE COMMON THE HEATH CATHARSIS FAILURE CONTROL INFLATION THE TRADE LEGISLATION INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS THE HANDS RISE DEVELOPMENT OF THATCHERISM ELECTIONS HOLD FEBRUARY 1975 MARGARET THE NEW LEADER DEVELOPED RADICAL AGENDA ROLLING LEAVING POSSIBLE THIS WAS THE CORE CONCERN THE POWER MRS THATCHER PERSONALITY SECURING THE FALKLANDS WAR STATUS ECONOMY INFLUENCE THE INTERNATIONAL AT THE END THE DECADE DEEPLY DISPUTES EUROPEAN HOWARD THE SUCCESSOR EMERGE CONTEST UNKNOWN FIGURE JOHN MAJOR THE CANDIDATE ABLE ABANDONED PRESENTED ENOUGH FOR HIM MAJORITY MARGIN ERODED CLINGING THE MAJOR RECESSION SOUTHERN ENGLAND STRING PERSONAL SCANDALS SWEEPING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ONLY 16 ONCE IN MODERN TIMES WILLIAM HAGUE GOVERNMENTS MANAGEMENT HAGUE SINGLE EUROPEAN CURRENCY GREATEST SUCCESS DOUBLING THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OF JUNE CONCENTRATION EUROPE EFFECTIVE HOPES RECOVERY THE MORNING AFTER POLL ANNOUNCED SELECTION PROCEDURE BALLOTS CANDIDATES FORWARD VOTE MEMBERSHIP IN SEPTEMBER IAIN DUNCAN SMITH LITTLE SIGN IMPROVEMENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR OVERTHROW SADDAM REGIME IRAQ THE SPRING SUMMER TUNE OPINION THE LABOUR PARTY CRITICISM DUNCAN SMITH VOTES THE DESIRE CANDIDATE NOMINATED MICHAEL HOWARD OLDER THE ASSET EXPERIENCE CABINET MINISTER POSTAL BALLOT CONSERVATIVE PARTY DAVID
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