48 Facts About British Conservatives

In 2010, the British Conservatives entered a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

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

Since the EU referendum, the British Conservatives have targeted working class voters in small and medium sized urban areas which were traditionally Labour supporting.

The British Conservatives are a founding member party of both the International Democrat Union and the European British Conservatives and Reformists Party.

British Conservatives was replaced by Liberal Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman who called an election in January 1906, which produced a massive Liberal victory with a gain of 214 seats.

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In late 1916 Liberal David Lloyd George became prime minister but the Liberals soon split and the British Conservatives dominated the government, especially after their landslide in the 1918 election.

Nigel Keohane finds that the British Conservatives were bitterly divided before 1914, especially on the issue of Irish Unionism and the experience of three consecutive election losses.

In 1922, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin led the breakup of the coalition, and the British Conservatives governed until 1923, when a minority Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald came to power.

The British Conservatives regained power in 1924 and remained in power for the full five-year term.

Apart from rationing, which was ended in 1954, most of the welfare state enacted by Labour were accepted by the British Conservatives and became part of the "post-war consensus" that was satirised as Butskellism and that lasted until the 1970s.

The British Conservatives were conciliatory towards unions, but they did privatise the steel and road haulage industries in 1953.

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

British Conservatives were re-elected in 1955 and 1959 with larger majorities.

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

The British Conservatives had more votes than Labour, but Labour had four more seats.

British Conservatives 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 Conservatives 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.

British Conservatives 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.

British Conservatives was deeply unpopular in certain sections of society due to high unemployment, which reached its highest level since the 1930s, peaking at over 3,000,000 people following her economic reforms, and her response to the miners' strike.

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

Election was finally held on 9 April 1992 and the British Conservatives won a fourth successive electoral victory, even though the economy was still in recession and most of the polls had predicted either a narrow Labour victory or a hung parliament.

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

The Labour lead was gradually narrowed over the next two years, as the British Conservatives gained some credit for the strong economic recovery and fall in unemployment.

John Major resigned as party leader after the British Conservatives were heavily defeated in a landslide and was succeeded by William Hague.

British Conservatives 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.

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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 Conservatives were becoming "a mongrel race", although Hague did reject Townend's views.

British Conservatives 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.

The British Conservatives gained control of the London mayoralty for the first time in May 2008 after Boris Johnson defeated the Labour incumbent, Ken Livingstone.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the British Conservatives having the most seats but being twenty seats short of an overall majority.

In May 2014, the British Conservatives were defeated in the European parliamentary elections, coming in third place behind the UK Independence Party and Labour.

At the 2015 general election, the British Conservatives won a majority of seats in the House of Commons and formed a majority government under Cameron.

The British Conservatives have generally favoured a diverse range of international alliances, ranging from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the Commonwealth of Nations.

Close US-British Conservatives relations have been an element of Conservative foreign policy since World War II.

British Conservatives have proposed a Pan-African Free Trade Area, which it says could help entrepreneurial dynamism of African people.

British Conservatives maintain a continuous stance of staying neutral on matters relating to Kashmir.

In education, the British Conservatives have pledged to review the National Curriculum, and introduce the English Baccalaureate.

In Higher education, the British Conservatives have increased tuition fees to £9,250 per year, however have ensured that this will not be paid by anyone until they are earning over £25,000.

British Conservatives 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 Conservatives argued that 'family and politics are inextricably linked'.

Until 1999, British Conservatives opposed the creation of a national minimum wage, as they believed it would cost jobs, and businesses would be reluctant to start business in the UK from fear of high labour costs.

In 2010, the British Conservatives campaigned to cut the perceived bureaucracy of the modern police force and pledged greater legal protection to people convicted of defending themselves against intruders.

Conservative Party has members with varying opinions of the EU, with pro-European British Conservatives joining the affiliate Conservative Group for Europe, while some Eurosceptics left the party to join the United Kingdom Independence Party.

In 2019, the British Conservatives' manifesto committed to a broad constitutional review in a line which read "after Brexit we need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: the relationship between the government, parliament and the courts".

In June 2009, The British Conservatives required a further four partners apart from the Polish and Czech supports to qualify for official fraction status in the parliament; the rules state that a European parliamentary caucus requires at least 25 MEPs from at least seven of the 27 EU member states.

British Conservatives 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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One-nation British Conservatives are often associated with the Tory Reform Group and the Bow Group.

One-nation British Conservatives often invoke Edmund Burke and his emphasis on civil society as the foundations of society, as well as his opposition to radical politics of all types.

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