15 Facts About Tory party

The King's Tory party thus comprised a mixture of supporters of royal autocracy and of those Parliamentarians who felt that the Long Parliament had gone too far in attempting to gain executive power for itself and, more especially, in undermining the episcopalian government of the Church of England, which was felt to be a primary support of royal government.

In both these respects the Tory party platform had failed, but the institutions of monarchy and of a state Church survived.

New Tory party ministry was dominated by Harley, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State.

The arch-Tory party Bolingbroke became in effect Anne's chief minister and Tory party power seemed to be at its zenith.

The latter exclusion, and the rigid Tory party politics played by the Whigs, played a significant role in the cohesion of the Tories; the Whigs offered few opportunities for Tories who switched sides, and as a Tory party the Tories found no possibilities for compromise with the Whigs.

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Tory party advised the King in Cabinet that elections to Parliament should be free from government bribery, an idea Sir Robert Walpole opposed due to the possibility of the election of a Tory Parliament.

Tory party further claimed that a large Army was needed to defeat any possible Jacobite invasion.

The 1747 general election resulted in only 115 Tory party MPs being elected, their lowest figure up until this point.

Thomas Carte wrote to the Pretender that "the attempt against the university of Oxford brought them all up at once to town, which nothing else would, and in their zeal on that account, they entered into a sort of coalition with Prince Frederick's Tory party to stand by the university of Oxford, to join in opposing all unconstitutional points, but to be under no obligation to visit Prince Frederick's court, nor unite in other points".

Hitherto it might be said that the two parties of Whig and Tory party still subsisted; though Jacobitism, the concealed mother of the latter, was extinct.

All historians are agreed that the Tory party declined sharply in the late 1740s and 1750s and that it ceased to be an organized party by 1760.

The label "Tory party" was in this sense applied to the Prime Ministers Lord Bute and Lord North, but these politicians considered themselves Whigs.

Pitt rejected the Tory party label, preferring to refer to himself as an independent Whig, for he believed in the current constitutional arrangement as being well balanced, without particular favour towards the royal prerogative, unlike the Tories of the first half of the 18th century.

The new Tory party was distinct both in composition and ideological orientation from the old.

In foreign policy, the differences were even more marked as the old Tory party had been pacific and isolationist whereas the new one was bellicose and imperialistic.