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This party ceased to exist as an organised political entity in the early 1760s, although it was used as a term of self-description by some political writers. A few decades later, a new Tory party would rise to establish a hold on government between 1783 and 1830, with William Pitt the Younger followed by Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. [1]
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] Typically party affiliation allows an individual to ...
Black Watch. Roderick James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSGS FRSL (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, and former diplomat and politician. He is the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale University 's Jackson School of Global Affairs. [1] He hosts The Rest Is Politics podcast with ...
MPs. 2019 election. MPs. 2024 election. MPs. The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. [2] The governing Conservative Party remained the largest single party in ...
The Conservative Party (UK), the modern British political party colloquially referred to as the Tory Party. Regional. Ulster Unionist Party; Unionist Party (Scotland) Gibraltar Social Democrats; Canada Federal. Conservative Party of Canada (2003 onwards) [citation needed] Regional. United Conservative Party of Alberta [citation needed]
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg (born 24 May 1969) is a British politician and member of the Conservative Party serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since 2010. He served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government ...
Tory scum is a phrase used to describe members of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party ("Tory" is a colloquial name for the Conservatives) by its opponents. Journalist Michael White called the phrase a regularly used "ancient British roar"; [1] David Graeber , a "familiar slogan"; [2] and Fintan O'Toole joked that in some parts of England the phrase was thought to be the actual name of the ...
