Conservatives and rightist activists saw the groups of radical workers active during the strike as a threat to the dominance and security of the former estates and the political right, and so resolved to use all means necessary to defend themselves, including armed force.

Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.

Supporters of the mixed economy, including R. H. Tawney, Anthony Crosland and Andrew Shonfield were mostly associated with the British Labour Party, although similar views were expressed by Conservatives including Harold Macmillan.

Kaminski denied his opposition to the apology was derived from anti-Semitism, and has been defended by the Conservatives and some journalists including the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard.

In the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives gained 33 new seats in Westminster, including five from the Liberal Democrats, but this still only gave them 198 seats to Labour's 355.

In the 2005 general election ( on 5 May 2005 ), Howard's Conservative Party failed to unseat the Labour government, although the Conservatives did gain 33 seats ( including five from the Liberal Democrats ) and Labour's majority shrank from 167 to 66.

The strike became a symbolic struggle, since the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) was one of the strongest unions in the country, viewed by many, including Conservatives in power, as having brought down the Heath government in the union's 1974 strike.

The Conservatives soon began to get annoyed that they were unable to criticise the Government, and took this into Parliament ; rather than criticising policy, they would attack individual ministers, including the Lord Chancellor ( who they considered " far too enamoured of German culture ") and the Home Secretary, who was " too tender to aliens ".

Even among this latter group there were divisions: some Liberals agreed with the Conservatives that the railway should be directly built by the government, while others, including Cross, favoured a partnership with a " responsible company ".

The Conservatives filibustered the legislation and moved a series of amendments ( including one calling for the scheme to be put to referendum ), but the Liberals voted unanimously in its favour.

Shortly after he lost his riding in 1989, a group of Calgary Conservatives, including party budget director Jack Major and Getty's old leadership rival Ron Ghitter, began making plans to force party renewal, with or without Getty.

In that year's provincial election, he campaigned actively for the Conservatives, including for Crawford, the man who had defeated him eight years earlier.

In March 2011, just ahead of the expected Canadian election, the Conservatives added one line about gay rights to the " Discover Canada " booklet for new immigrants which they had published in 2009: " Canada ’ s diversity includes gay and lesbian Canadians, who enjoy the full protection of and equal treatment under the law, including access to civil marriage ".

The Conservatives also sparred with the Liberal Party due to its connections with French Canadian nationalists including Henri Bourassa who wanted Canada to distance itself from Britain, and demanded that Canada recognize that it had two nations, English Canada and French Canada, connected together through a common history.

Through a variety of factors, including dissatisfaction with the effects of the government's platform policies, deterioration of municipal services after downloading, the Walkerton Tragedy and Eves ' handling of the Northeast Blackout, the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 2003 provincial election by Dalton McGuinty.

Although the Social Democrats are currently speaking of the possibility of a broad centrist coalition including the Conservatives, the Conservatives appear to remain committed to a right-of-centre alliance, working most closely with the liberal Venstre and somewhat less closely with the Danish People's Party.

With fellow Conservative Dr Julian Lewis, Bercow ran an Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course for over ten years, which trained over 600 Conservatives ( including several current MPs ) in campaigning and communication techniques.

With fellow Conservative John Bercow-later elected Speaker of the House of Commons-he ran an Advanced Speaking and Campaigning course for more than ten years, which trained over 600 Conservatives ( including several current MPs ) in campaigning and communication techniques.

News of this alliance was praised by several Conservatives, including Iain Dale and ConservativeHome.

Despite having co-operated with the Liberals at the provincial level, Bracken was asked by a number of senior federal Conservatives ( including Arthur Meighen ) to take over the leadership of the weak national Conservative Party in 1942.

A few days before the election, a letter allegedly addressed to the Communist Party was published that mentioned organising uprisings in British colonies ; fear of the " socialist menace " drove many voters to the right, and in the election on 29 October 1924, many Liberal Members of Parliament, including Birkett, lost their seats to Conservatives.

Several Liberal-Unionists ended up staying with the Conservatives including Hugh Guthrie and Robert Manion.

There are both a Calvin College Conservatives group as well as a Calvin College Democrats group on campus, as well as other groups of political nature including Model UN: Calvin College, the Social Justice Coalition, and Amnesty International.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the " cash for questions " scandal, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton ( who lost a consequent libel action against The Guardian ), Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives ' public reputation.

The parties of these MEPs also became full members of the EPP ( with the exception of the British Conservatives who did not join the Party ) and this consolidation process of the European centre-right throughout the ' 90s with the acquisition of members from the Italian Forza Italia.

Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to run things better.

Although occupying fewer seats than the Tory / Conservatives, the Whigs had a chance to draw support from the minor parties and independents who were also elected in July 1852.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

He had never petitioned for an amnesty, steadily rejected all the overtures both of the Austrian government and of the Magyar Conservatives ( who would have accepted something short of full autonomy ), and clung enthusiastically to Ferenc Deák's party.

Labour was still more than ten percentage points behind the Conservatives, who retained a three-figure majority in the House of Commons.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.

From the 1880s, until after Federation in 1901, Victorian politics were dominated by Protectionist Liberals, who were opposed by Free Trade Conservatives.

Most Irish people elected as their MPs Liberals and Conservatives who belonged to the main British political parties ( note: the poor didn't have a vote at that time ).

Electoral reform was a majority priority for the Liberal Democrats, who favour proportional representation but were able to negotiate only a referendum on AV with the Conservatives.

This resulted in the merger between the Conservatives and Joseph Chamberlain's Liberal Unionist Party, composed of former Liberals who opposed Irish home rule.

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

The 2009 elections again saw a victory for the European People's Party, despite losing the British Conservatives who formed a smaller eurosceptic grouping with other anti-federalist right wing parties.

Winchester is currently represented in the House of Commons through the Winchester Parliamentary Constituency by Steve Brine of the Conservatives who in the General Election of 2010 beat Martin Tod, the Liberal Democrat candidate, by 3048 votes ( a margin of 5. 4 %).

After December 1916, Lloyd George relied on the support of Conservatives and of the press baron Lord Northcliffe ( who owned both The Times and The Daily Mail ).

The new party was dubbed " the Alliance Conservatives " by critics who considered the new party a " hostile takeover " of the old Progressive Conservatives by the newer Alliance.

Traditionalism was advocated by a group of U. S. university professors ( labeled the " New Conservatives " by the popular press ) who rejected the notions of individualism, liberalism, modernity, and social progress, and sought instead to promote cultural and educational renewal, and a revived interest in what T. S. Eliot referred to as " the permanent things " ( those perennial truths which endure from age to age and those basic institutions that ground society such as the church, the family, the state, and community life.

In 2003 the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged to create the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Stephen Harper, a member of the Alliance Church, who went on to become prime minister in 2006.