She was a social conservative and a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

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.

It has animated a great deal of social reform undertaken by successive Conservative governments.

In 1978, Hayek came into conflict with the Liberal Party leader, David Steel, who claimed that liberty was possible only with " social justice and an equitable distribution of wealth and power, which in turn require a degree of active government intervention " and that the Conservative Party were more concerned with the connection between liberty and private enterprise than between liberty and democracy.

Conservative thinkers, especially social conservatives, often perceive politics in a generally pessimistic way.

Faced with the difficulty of defining RP, many writers have tried to distinguish between different sub-varieties: A. C. Gimson in earlier editions of his book proposed Conservative, General, and Advanced ; Conservative RP refers to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds ; General RP is often considered neutral regarding age, occupation, or lifestyle of the speaker ; and Advanced RP refers to speech of a younger generation of speakers.

Throughout the course of Canadian history, the Conservative Party was generally controlled by MacDonaldian Tory elements, which in Canada meant an adherence to the English-Canadian traditions of Monarchy, Empire-Commonwealth, parliamentary government, nationalism, protectionism, social reform, and eventually, acceptance of the necessity of the welfare state.

The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

Atkinson, social security received much more attention from the First Wilson Government than it did during the previous thirteen years of Conservative government.

As noted by the historian Richard Whiting, spending on social services under Wilson rose faster than the growth in GNP, by 65 % ( excluding housing ) as against 37 % for GNP, " a substantially better record than that achieved by the preceding Conservative governments .”

Conservative in politics and social matters, he accepted things as they were and displayed a lack of idealism.

Thatcherism describes the conviction politics, economic and social policy, and political style of the British Conservative politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.

The social welfare programme proved controversial, and Asquith's government faced resistance from the Conservative Party.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada () ( PC ) ( 1942 – 2003 ) was a Canadian federal political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues.

Before he became leader of the Conservative Party, Disraeli had announced that, as a result of the Reform Act of 1867 which had enfranchised the male working class, the party needed to pursue social reforms if it was to have electoral success.

The Star endorsed the social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) leader Ed Broadbent in 1979 and Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield in 1972.

A social climber, staunchly Conservative and unafraid to challenge anyone who gets on her nerves, Margo also has a heart of gold.

In his 2009 Conservative Party Conference speech, Conservative Party leader David Cameron signalled that Duncan Smith might serve in his Cabinet, with responsibility for social justice, should he be called upon to form an administration after the next general election.

During his early time as Conservative leader, social policy was the most complicated and difficult to set up.

His refusal to get drawn in may have actually strengthened his hold over Conservative MPs, many of whom were similarly uninterested in social reform.

In modern Canadian politics, social conservatives often felt that they were being sidelined by officials in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The change in Conservative attitudes to the cohesion of the British Empire had been illustrated earlier in 1958 with the expulsion of the League of Empire Loyalists from the Conservative Party Conference.

Conservative in her attitudes, she is completely devoted to Strongbow and defends him and follows him, even if she believes him to be wrong, as seen when they leave the Blue Mountain, thus separating themselves from the rest of the tribe.

On 12 October 2011 Helmer announced that he would resign from the European Parliament at the end of the year, citing " increasing disillusion with the attitudes of the Conservative Party " as the main reason, although admitting that his " twelve-and-a-half years banging my head against the same brick wall in Brussels is perhaps long enough ".

In part, the Economists own editorial stance was a simple reflection of attitudes within the UK in general, and of its two major political parties through the middle to late 20th century ( Conservative and Labour ), resisting the surrender of sovereignty to a supranational institution for as long as possible, and attempting to preserve the UK's self-image of a world power.

* Conservative Party ' Cash for Access ' scandal, March 2012.

The Pacific Scandal was a political scandal in Canada involving allegations of bribes being accepted by the Conservative government in the attempts of private interests to influence the bidding for a national rail contract.

The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, and a transfer of power from his Conservative government to a Liberal government led by Alexander Mackenzie.

Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal, the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874.

Despite the short-term defeat, the scandal was not a mortal wound to Macdonald, the Conservative Party, or the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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 ".

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

" However, Sauvé also attracted negative attention due to her husband's eventual elevation as a Crown minister ; in a piece in The Globe and Mail, Progressive Conservative MP Louis-Joseph Pigeon expressed concern over the wife of a minister being paid " fabulous sums by the CBC ," calling the circumstances a " shame and a scandal.

The scandal, now known as the Profumo Affair, led to Profumo's resignation and withdrawal from politics, and it may have helped to topple the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan.

The scandal rocked the Conservative government, and was generally held to have been among the causes of its defeat by Labour at the 1964 election.

The ensuing scandal contributed to President Miguel Abadía Méndez's Conservative Party being voted out of office in 1930, putting an end to 44 years of Conservative rule in Colombia.

With the ruling Liberal Party being reduced to a minority government, revelations of the sponsorship scandal damaging its popularity to the point where both the Conservative Party and the Bloc Québécois were pressing their advantage for a snap election, the Prime Minister approached the NDP for its support.

The Conservative Party, in office since 1951, had lost standing as a result of a sexual scandal involving a senior minister in 1963, and at the time of Home's appointment as Prime Minister seemed headed for heavy electoral defeat.

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.

This strategy was a surprise to many in the news media, as they believed the party would focus on the sponsorship scandal ; instead, the Conservative strategy was to let that issue ruminate with voters.

Because the new party consisted largely of former Progressive Conservatives, it was initially derided by opponents as merely a re-branding of the Progressive Conservative name in an attempt by the party to distance itself from the still-fresh corruption scandal.

In 1992, Yeo was appointed Minister for the Environment and Countryside in John Major's government, but was forced to resign after a scandal involving his so-called " love child " with a Conservative councillor, Julia Stent, who was born on 8 July 1993.

The Westland affair was a political scandal for the British Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1986.

Cash was cleared on appeal in February 2010 by former High Court judge and President of the Court of Appeal, the Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy after it was reported on 28 May 2009, in the swirl of stories surrounding the 2009 Parliamentary Expenses scandal, that Cash had claimed £ 15, 000 which he paid his daughter, Laetitia Cash, a prospective Conservative candidate, as rent for a Notting Hill flat, when he had a mortgaged flat of his own a few miles away, which his son Sam Cash was staying in rent-free.

As a member of Westminster Council and deputy Leader of the Labour Group, he was a leader of the campaign to expose the ' Homes for Votes ' scandal which led eventually to the surcharging of the former Conservative Council Leader Shirly Porter and colleagues.

Several weeks prior to that headline, when former Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark insinuated he would support the Liberals despite being implicated in the scandal, rather than the newly-minted Conservative Party of Canada in an impending federal election, the headline in the Sun the following day read " Joe Blows ".