48 Facts About British Conservative Party

Conservative Party was founded in 1834 from the Tory Party and was one of two dominant political parties in the 19th century, along with the Liberal Party.

British Conservative Party has generally adopted liberal economic policies favouring free markets, including deregulation, privatisation, and marketisation, since the 1980s, although historically it advocated for protectionism.

The party is British unionist, opposing a united Ireland, Scottish and Welsh independence, and has been critical of devolution.

In Britain, the Conservative party was known as the Unionist Party because of its opposition to home rule in Ireland.

British Conservative Party argues that there were significant advances in transport, healthcare, and higher education.

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Since accession to the EEC, which developed into the EU, British membership has been a source of heated debate within the Conservative Party.

British Conservative Party's did not challenge the National Health Service, and supported the Cold War policies of the consensus, but otherwise tried to dismantle and delegitimise it.

British Conservative Party's held the belief that the existing trend of unions was bringing economic progress to a standstill by enforcing "wildcat" strikes, keeping wages artificially high and forcing unprofitable industries to stay open.

Some local British Conservative Party-run councils enacted profitable local sales schemes during the late-1960s.

British Conservative Party's was greatly admired by her supporters for her leadership in the Falklands War of 1982—which coincided with a dramatic boost in her popularity—and for policies such as giving the right to council house tenants to buy their council house at a discount on market value.

The British Conservative Party economy benefitted in the first Thatcher ministry by tax income from North Sea oil coming on stream.

The Social Democratic British Conservative Party was established in 1981 and consisted of more than twenty breakaway Labour MPs, who quickly formed the SDP-Liberal Alliance with the Liberal British Conservative Party.

The Conservative Party touched upon the issue of immigration, claiming that under Labour, immigration would rise hugely.

From 1994 to 1997, Major privatised British Conservative Party Rail, splitting it up into franchises to be run by the private sector.

British Conservative Party was plagued by internal division and infighting, mainly over the UK's role in the European Union.

British Conservative Party government was increasingly accused in the media of "sleaze".

An effective opposition campaign by the Labour Party culminated in a landslide defeat for the Conservatives in 1997 that was Labour's largest ever parliamentary victory and the worst defeat for the Conservatives since the 1906 general election 91 years earlier.

British Conservative Party was criticised for attending the Notting Hill Carnival and for wearing a baseball cap in public in what were seen as poor attempts to appeal to younger voters.

The BBC reported that the Conservative peer John Lord Taylor criticised Hague for not removing the whip from John Townend, a Conservative MP, after the latter made a speech in which he said the British were becoming "a mongrel race", although Hague did reject Townend's views.

Under Howard's leadership in the 2005 general election, the Conservative Party increased their total vote share by around 0.

British Conservative Party then announced his intention to reform and realign the Conservatives, saying they needed to change the way they looked, felt, thought and behaved, advocating a more centre-right stance as opposed to their recent staunchly right-wing platform.

Contrary to opinion polling at the time, the election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party having 317 seats in the House of Commons, but without an overall majority.

The Democratic Unionist British Conservative Party suggested it would be able to provide a confidence and supply arrangement depending on negotiations.

In May 2018, the Conservative Party was accused of failing to take action on Islamophobia that was allegedly happening in the party.

Johnson lost his working majority in the House of Commons on 3 September 2019 when former Justice minister Phillip Lee crossed the floor during Johnson's speech to join the Liberal Democrats, later explaining that he believed the Conservative party had been "infected with the twin diseases of populism and English nationalism".

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Later that same day, 21 British Conservative Party MPs had the British Conservative Party whip withdrawn after voting with the Opposition to grant the House of Commons control over its order paper, leading to Johnson becoming the first Prime Minister to lose his first Commons vote.

Conservative Party believes that a free market and individual achievement are the primary factors behind economic prosperity.

Alongside a reduction in tax and commitments to keep taxation low, the Conservative Party has significantly reduced government spending, through the austerity programme which commenced in 2010.

Much of the 20th century, the Conservative Party took a broadly Atlanticist stance in relations with the United States, favouring close ties with the United States and similarly aligned nations such as Canada, Australia and Japan.

Beyond relations with the United States, the Commonwealth and the EU, the Conservative Party has generally supported a pro free-trade foreign policy within the mainstream of international affairs.

The Conservative Party believed that success in Afghanistan would be defined in terms of the Afghans achieving the capability to maintain their own internal and external security.

Conservative Party believes that in the 21st century defence and security are interlinked.

Conservative Party pledged to increase Britain's share of the global defence market as Government policy.

Conservative Party aims to build enhanced bilateral defence relations with key European partners and believes that it is in Britain's national interest to cooperate fully with all its European neighbours.

In 2016 the British Conservative Party government extended student loan access in England to postgraduate students to help improve access to education.

British Conservative Party stated in 2014 that there was 'no better place to start' in the Conservative mission of 'building society from the bottom up' than the family, which was responsible for individual welfare and well-being long before the welfare state came into play.

British Conservative Party argued that 'family and politics are inextricably linked'.

British Conservative Party has campaigned for the creation of a UK Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act 1998, but this was vetoed by their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats.

Traditionally the Conservative Party has supported the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom and its traditional Westminster system of politics.

Conservative Campaign Headquarters is effectively head of the Professional Party and leads financing, organisation of elections and drafting of policy.

Conservative Party Board is the party's ultimate decision-making body, responsible for all operational matters and is made up of representatives from each section of the Party.

The British Conservative Party Board meets about once a month and works closely with CCHQ, elected representatives and the voluntary membership mainly through a number of management sub-committees .

The membership fee for the Conservative Party is £25, or £5 if the member is under the age of 23.

From 1998 to 2015, the Conservative Party maintained a youth wing for members under 30 called Conservative Future, with branches at both universities and at parliamentary constituency level.

British Conservative Party developed a design based on the Olympic flame in the colours of the Union Jack, which was intended to represent leadership, striving to win, dedication, and a sense of community.

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Conservative Party has a variety of internal factions or ideologies, including one-nation conservatism, social conservatism, Thatcherism, traditional conservatism, neoconservatism, Euroscepticism, and Christian democracy.

Joseph was the first to introduce the model idea into British Conservative Party politics, writing the publication: Why Britain needs a Social Market Economy.

The Conservative Party has regional call centres and VoteSource do-it-from-home accounts.