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 long criticised the BBC for being a hotbed of Left-wingers and an internal report from 2007 said it had to make greater efforts to avoid liberal bias.

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.

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.

Gorman disliked what she termed " middle-class idiots ", chauvinists, the EU, wet Tories, and the attitude of those in the Conservative Party who thought they were born to rule.

The idea of what was originally termed a National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness took root when Labour came to power having defeated John Major's Conservative Government in 1997.

On April 29, 1918 the head of the German group army Kiew ( Heeresgruppe Kiew ), Hermann von Eichhorn organized a coup and appointed the Conservative General Pavlo Skoropadsky ( commander of the first Russian Corps and later leader of the Free Cossacks ) as Hetman of what was termed the Ukrainska Derzhava or Ukrainian State.

* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

The 2008 and 2012 elections were both won by Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate.

He was touted as a possible Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London elections in 2008, but turned down an offer from Conservative leader David Cameron.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

In 2008, the Conservative Party formed a pact with the Ulster Unionist Party to select joint candidates for European and House of Commons elections ; this angered the DUP as by splitting the Unionist vote, republican parties will be elected in some areas.

Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008.

In 2008, Conservative politician Sayeeda Warsi stated that a future Conservative government would ban khat.

During the 2008 London mayoral election the newspaper and particularly its correspondent Andrew Gilligan published articles in support of Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning Ken Livingstone.

Hanwell is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), was re-elected in May 2008 but lost his seat to Labour in May 2012.

Northolt comes under the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member, currently Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

Southall is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

Again, the area was strongly represented as a Conservative hold from 2000-2012 with the conservative candidate Richard Barnes winning the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections by quite a large margin.

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and Ipswich and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1918 to 1937. the titles are held by the thirteenth Earl of Wemyss and ninth Earl of March, who succeeded in 2008.

He also spoke for about 6 hours during the February 5, 2008 and February 7, 2008 at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs meetings to block inquiry into allegations that the Conservative Party spent over the maximum allowable campaign limits during the 2006 election.

Crosby was later re-hired by the Conservative Party to run their successful campaign in the 2008 London Mayor election.

Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election.