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David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, named Disraeli as his favourite Conservative and some commentators and MPs have suggested that Cameron's ideology contains an element of one nationism.
Redwood's appearance has led to some commentators, originally former Conservative MP turned political sketch-writer, Matthew Parris, noting similarities between him and Star Treks Spock and so Redwood is often called a Vulcan.
Portillo unexpectedly lost his Enfield Southgate seat at the 1997 general election ; political commentators widely believe that he would have been elected Conservative leader had he retained it.
Political commentators Neal Lawson and Joe Cox wrote that tactical voting helped to provide New Labour with its majorities in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and argued that, the party won because of public opposition to the Conservative Party.
Some commentators point to Ridley's resignation, its manner, and the European issue at its core, as leading indicators for the next decade of Conservative Party politics.
Gallup launched a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, where it almost alone correctly predicted Labour's victory in the 1945 general election, in contrast with virtually all other commentators, who expected a victory for the Conservative Party, led by Winston Churchill.
Some commentators have remarked though that the work-in was hugely successful in the short-term at halting the laissez-faire, free-market ideas that many in the then Conservative government wanted to implement, the later Thatcher Conservative government would be far more reaching in its attempts to remove state involvement in industrial affairs.
Conservative commentators have termed the 2008 bail-out of the banks, " Socialism ", suggesting that the USA and the UK have become socialist, but these comments are dismissed by government spokespersons and socialists alike, as the bailouts are more indicative of protectionism and / or interventionist capitalism.
There were several prominent Conservative politicians who did not stand despite speculation by political commentators preceding the election:
Conservative Russians called the Ukrainian movement a " Polish intrigue ", while Polish commentators had been complaining that Ukrainianism had been used as a weapon against Polish culture in right-bank Ukraine.
Based on his statements and actions made in the last election, some political commentators have suggested that the current Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has also shifted his ideology closer to the Blue Tory mould as opposed to the social conservatism that was usually identified with the leadership of the Canadian Alliance and Reform Parties.
Some commentators argued that Toews's hardline approach to law-and-order issues was damaging the Conservative Party's image among centrist voters, and described his replacement Rob Nicholson as presenting a more moderate image.
Unlike most other Conservative commentators, Littlejohn favours abolition of the monarchy.
Conservative commentators used the Churchill affair to attack Ethnic studies departments as enclaves of " anti-Americanism " which promote the idea of ethnic groups as " victims " in US society, and not places where serious scholarship is done.
The book has ample source notes and was well received by some eurosceptic or conservative commentators, including philosopher Roger Scruton, Lord Rees-Mogg, economist Lord Ralph Harris, historian Hugo Vickers, and British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan.
What some commentators called – “ the Holy Trinity of the Conservative right ”.
Conservative commentators have heavily criticized her work ; its publication by the University of Minnesota Press caused controversy in the Minnesota state legislature.

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She is a committed animal lover and one of the few Conservative MPs to have consistently voted for the ban on fox hunting.
As a result of these social reforms the Liberal-Labour MP Alexander Macdonald told his constituents in 1879, " The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty.
Conservative Party MP found to have reclaimed salaries he had paid to his two sons who had in fact not carried out the work to the extent claimed.
The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.
Because of this potential for confusion, a number of Conservative Rabbis have proposed renaming the movement, and outside of the United States and Canada, in many countries including Israel and the UK, it is today known as Masorti Judaism ( Hebrew for " Traditional ").
At the same time, however, certain Conservative institutions, particularly day schools, have shown significant growth.
Papers from a recent Rabbinical Assembly conference on theology were printed in a special issue of the journal Conservative Judaism ( Winter 1999 ); the editors note that Kaplan's naturalism seems to have dropped from the movement's radar screen.
Some Conservative theologians, like Seymour Siegel have stressed that the word, " Conservative ," must be understood in the way it is used in the British political system: that the laws and traditions have to be conserved or preserved, with changes allowed only when there is an overriding reason — almost always, an overriding ethical reason — to do so.
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.
They believe that the Orthodox Jewish movements, on the theological right, have erred by slowing down, or stopping, the historical development of Jewish law: " Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halakhic authority can continue the halakhic evolution today.
Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.
Thus, Conservative Judaism rejects patrilineal descent and would hold that a child of a non-Jewish mother who was raised as a Reform or Reconstructionist Jew is not legally Jewish and would have to undergo conversion to become a Jew.
Many other " community day schools " that are not affiliated with the Solomon Schechter network take a generally Conservative approach, but unlike the Schechter schools, these schools generally have " no barriers to enrollment based on the faith of the parents or on religious practices in the home.
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.
In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been progressive conservative, with Canada's major conservative movement being officially named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.
Conservative elites have long dominated Latin American nations.
The three largest Jewish denominations — Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism — maintain the belief that the Jews have been chosen by God for a purpose.
" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.
While Conservative Jews have varied views regarding the origin of the Torah and its authority today, and believe it can be continuously reinterpreted.
Since the Enlightenment large synagogues have often adopted the practice of hiring rabbis and hazzans to act as shatz and baal kriyah, and this is still typically the case in many Conservative and Reform congregations.

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Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.
Conservative critics have long complained that the long-format news programming on National Public Radio ( NPR ) shows a liberal bias, although this is disputed by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), a progressive media criticism organization, which found that, for example, " representatives of think tanks to the right of center outnumbered those to the left of center by more than four to one: 62 appearances to 15.
In post-Confederation Canada the terms " Red Tory " and " Blue Tory " have long been used to describe the two wings of the Conservative and previously the Progressive Conservative ( PC ) parties.
Powell replied she was correct to exclude him: " In the first place I am not a member of the Conservative Party and secondly, until the Conservative Party has worked its passage a very long way it will not be rejoining me ".
Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.
The Conservative leader, David Cameron, predicted that it was " the next big scandal waiting to happen " and was one that had " tainted our politics for too long, an issue that exposes the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money ".
The SET did not long survive the return of a Conservative government.
Fearing for his own position, Macmillan organised a major Cabinet change in July 1962 — also named ' the night of long knives ' as a symbol of his alleged betrayal of the Conservative party.
However, these attempts to restore the Reform Party's image as a tolerant political party were damaged in the 1997 federal election when the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favouritism towards Quebec.
Owen maintained his long standing position that he would never join the Conservative Party, although the memoirs of at least three of John Major's cabinet ministers refer to Major being quite keen to appoint Owen to his cabinet, but threats of resignation from within the Cabinet prevented him from doing so.
Andrew Hunter, a former Conservative MP who defected to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, was a long time patron of the magazine.
One of the first to use the phrase was Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative premier John Buchanan, who would stand at the end of a long line of party signs and wave to morning traffic.
Ridley had long been acutely aware of the threat the trade unions could pose to the execution of Conservative policies and, in the wake of the Heath government's union difficulties, had authored the Ridley Plan, which set out means of dealing with the trade unions and was a prototype for later developments.
Some Reform Party supporters were frustrated by the party's decision to expand its political base into Quebec as they continued to believe that the party should represent English Canada and others from the right-wing and populist faction of the party were angry that Manning punished MPs Bob Ringma and David Chatters During the campaign the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favoritism towards Quebec.
Hallam was regarded in 2004 as the wealthiest constituency in the north of England and was long held by the Conservative Party.
Noted work included their campaign " Labour isn't working " on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and ongoing campaigns for British Airways, and Silk Cut with whom the agency had long relationships.
The speech did not galvanise Rifkind's candidacy, however, which had always been regarded as a long shot-bookmakers had him at 50-1 and a poll found that only 4 % of Conservative voters supported his candidacy.
Holmer Green has long elected two Conservative district councillors to the Conservative-run Chiltern District Council.
Whilst still studying, in 1995, with friends in the local party and the backing of Gordon Brown — his mentor — he was selected to be the Scottish Labour Party candidate at the Perth and Kinross by-election caused by the death of the long serving flamboyant Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne offered Laws a seat in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet, but was rebuffed, with Laws saying " I am not a Tory, and if I merely wanted a fast track to a top job, I would have acted on this instinct a long time ago.
In early 2006, the Conservative Party of Canada became the largest party in the 39th Canadian Parliament, and the new government announced an amnesty period of one year ( later extended by a further year ) in which licensed or previously licensed long gun owners would not be punished for not registering their long guns.

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