The SDP favoured some Thatcherite reforms during the 1980s, such as legislation aimed at reforming the trade unions ( although the parliamentary SDP actually split three ways on Norman Tebbit's 1982 Industrial Relations bill, most voting for, some against, and others abstaining ), but took a more welfarist position than the Conservative Party, being more sceptical of Conservative welfare reforms ( particularly regarding the Health Service ).

The dissenters were discontented with the general leftward trend in USCJ policies over the previous decades, such as " prayer book revision, egalitarianism, redefining halakhic boundaries of sexual relationships, and advocacy of Israel accepting conversions that are non-halakhic even by Conservative standards "., and the Union suggests that " The Conservative Movement thus appears to endorse the notion that changing societal norms can supersede the proper application of halakhic sources ".

Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).

Conservative Jews believe that movements to its left, such as Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, have erred by rejecting the traditional authority of Jewish law and tradition.

For instance, if two men and a woman were to eat a meal together, a Conservative Jew would believe that the presence of three adult Jews would obligate the group to say a communal form of the Grace After Meals, while an Orthodox Jew would believe that, lacking three adult Jewish males, the group would not be able to do such.

Many smaller programs, such as Rabbi Benay Lappe's SVARA yeshiva, are also led by Conservative rabbis.

Conservative Judaism has come under criticism from a variety of sources such as:

* Conservative Traditionalists who criticize the Halakhic process when dealing with issues such as women in Judaism as well as homosexuality.

Due to halakhic disputes, such as the controversies over the role of women and homosexuality, some Conservative Talmudic scholars and experts in halakha have left the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards.

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain.

Conservative theorists such as Milton Friedman advocate school choice to promote excellence in education through competition.

The European Conservatives and Reformists group, typified by centre-right parties such as the British Conservative Party, along with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left which is an alliance of the left-wing parties in the European Parliament, is soft eurosceptic.

Conservative scholars consider internal evidences, such as the lack of the mention of the destruction of the Temple and a number of passages that they consider characteristic of an eyewitness, sufficient evidence that the gospel was composed before 100 and perhaps as early as 50 – 70: in the 1970s, scholars Leon Morris and John A. T. Robinson independently suggested earlier dates for the gospel's composition.

Conservative music of the Roman school continued to be written in his style ( which in the 17th century came to be known as the prima pratica ) by such students of his as Giovanni Maria Nanino, Ruggiero Giovanelli, Arcangelo Crivelli, Teofilo Gargari, Francesco Soriano and Gregorio Allegri.

The collection also contains speeches, sermons, articles, and remarks from the Conservative Jewish viewpoint on subjects such as Jewish medical ethics, dietary laws, adoption, and marriage and divorce.

Also, in most Conservative synagogues, and all Reform and Reconstructionist congregations, women participate in prayer services on an equal basis with men, including roles traditionally filled only by men, such as reading from the Torah.

At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the " Back to Basics " campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many ( including Conservative cabinet ministers ) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with.

However, 179 other Conservative MPs were defeated, including present and former Cabinet ministers such as Norman Lamont, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Portillo.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

# Clarence Jameson, Conservative ( 1908 – 1917 )

* Clarence Chester Cleveland, Conservative, ( 1891 – 1896 )

< tr bgcolor =# FFFFDD >< td > 8th < td > Thomas McIlwraith < td > 22 January 1879 < td > Conservative

< tr bgcolor =# FFFFDD >< td > _ < td > Thomas McIlwraith ( second time ) < td > 13 June 1888 < td > Conservative

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas also tried to dispel the allegations of anti-Semitism, saying " To those in the Jewish community who worry that the film ... might contain anti-Semitic elements, or encourage people to persecute Jews, fear not.

* Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington ( 1780 – 1858 ), Scottish / English politician ; Conservative MP ( 1802 – 1812 and 1814 – 1827 )

Dave Thomas ( Conservative )

* John Stradling Thomas ( 1925 – 1991 ), Welsh Conservative Party politician

* The Conservative Movement, Twayne Pub 1988, with Thomas Fleming ( second edition 1992 ) ISBN 0-8057-9724-6

In a 1935 speech the Prince of Wales had called for a closer understanding of Germany in order to safeguard peace in Europe and in response Conservative Party Members of Parliament Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet suggested setting up a study group of pro-German MPs.

Several Members of Parliament, mostly from the Conservative Party joined the group including Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, Ernest Bennett, Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet, Robert Tatton Bower, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the Marquess of Clydesdale, Robert Vaughan Gower, Thomas " Loel " Guinness, Norman Hulbert, Archibald James, Alfred Knox, John Macnamara, Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet, Assheton Pownall, Frank Sanderson, Duncan Sandys, Admiral Murray Sueter, Charles Taylor and Ronald Tree.

Stephen Thomas Ward ( 19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963 ) was an osteopath and artist who became notorious as one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British public scandal which profoundly affected the ruling Conservative Party government.

Since World War II many Radical Traditionalist, New Right, Conservative Revolutionary, Fascist and Third Positionist groups have taken inspiration from him, as well as several apolitical occultists, such as Thomas Karlsson and Massimo Scaligero.

Conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel, in their book Common Ground, describe Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which following James Q. Wilson they define as those who have " an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group.

Northcote was born in London, the second son of the prominent Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, later first Earl of Iddesleigh, by his wife cecilia Frances, daughter of Thomas Farrer and sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer.

Similarly, Thomas Kennedy served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 1948 to 1949, after George Drew resigned to contest the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives.

Conservative historians Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman argue that when politicians come to power they exercise all the power they can get, in the process trampling states ' rights.

Thomas Galbraith was born in Glasgow, the son of Conservative politician The Hon.

His son from his first marriage, Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament.

Also, the Honourable the Reverend Henry Edward Taylor, fifth son of the first Earl of Bective, was the father of the Conservative politician Thomas Edward Taylor, who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880.

At the 2005 general election, Thomas was narrowly defeated by the Conservative Party candidate David Jones.

Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, GBE, CH ( 2 April 1901 – 5 November 1974 ), was a British Conservative politician and the only Governor-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation, from 3 January 1958, to 31 May 1962, when the country was disbanded.

The ninth UFA MP, William Thomas Lucas of Camrose, ran as a Conservative and was also defeated by the Aberhart movement.