The Conservative Central Office said that selection of candidates was purely a matter for the local party and refused to intervene.

His selection for the very safe Labour seat of Rhondda in South Wales in 2000 surprised many people given Bryant's background – gay, a former Anglican vicar, and someone who had been a Conservative as a student.

The advancement of the provincially popular western-based conservative Social Credit Party in federal politics was stalled, in part by the strategic selection of leaders from the west by the Progressive Conservative Party.

In 1996, he paid £ 1, 000 to hire a helicopter so that he could attend the selection meetings for two safe Conservative parliamentary seats on the same day – Buckingham and Surrey Heath – and was selected as the candidate for Buckingham.

Norman Tebbit's secretary, Beryl Goldsmith, criticised Maude after this, asking: " How many male, white, straight Conservative MPs currently passionately campaigning for the selection of more women, and more men and women from ethnic minorities, would voluntarily relinquish their own seats in order to encourage local associations to follow the policy line they preach from their own smug, safe base?

He was chairman of the 1922 Committee and he directly oversaw candidate selection for the Conservative Party in the 1979 General Election.

Amid speculation that Ottaway will retire from Parliament in 2015, it has been rumoured that Boris Johnson, Government Special Adviser Shaun Bailey, or neighbouring MP, Gavin Barwell, will stand for the Conservative Party selection in Croydon South.

In September 1998, following his selection as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the East Midlands, Helmer left his job as Managing Director of a Leicester textile company, Donisthorpe Ltd ( the UK subsidiary of a French textile multinational ), to campaign full time ahead of the 1999 euro-elections, and took up his new role as an MEP immediately afterwards.

Roberts disagreed with the selection of John Turner as party leader, but he nevertheless ran for the federal Liberals in the Quebec riding of Lachine in 1984, losing to Progressive Conservative Bob Layton.

Prior to this Jennie Elias has had various other political roles including being a London Area Officer, Vice-Chairman of Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association and serving several times on the London mayoral selection committee.

Jenkins later commented that he was forced to resign by David Cameron who feared Jenkins ' selection would undermine Cameron's attempt to re-brand the Conservative Party as inclusive to homosexuals.

Jenkins claimed that he had been encouraged to apply to become a pre-approved Conservative candidate by the Party's group leader in the Welsh Assembly, Nicholas Bourne, had been subsequently pre-approved by the Conservative Party as a candidate and then selected to fight the Carmarthen West and Pembrokeshire South constituency by the local party in that seat but that the potential controversy that his selection could have caused and the effect on David Cameron's image led David Cameron to demand his resignation as a candidate despite the Conservative Party in Wales giving Jenkins its full backing.

* An Education for Our Time ( Regnery, 1998 ), a work describing a " dying billionaire's detailed vision of a new, ideal college ", was a main selection of the Conservative Book Club in 1998.

He was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Reading East using a pioneering primary system, which opened the selection to non-party members for the first time.

In 2009, she gave this account of her 2005 selection :" Three weeks before the 2005 general election I, a council estate Scouser, was selected as the Conservative candidate to represent a southern rural constituency.

Dorries's account of her own selection appears to contradict a news report which The Times ran at the time, reporting that Conservative Campaign Headquarters placed a majority of women on the shortlist and pressed for the selection of a female candidate :" Mrs Dorries, who has three teenage children, easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend.

In a debate on Woman's Hour, broadcast on 22 August 2001, Dorries ( as Nadine Bargery ) had advocated all-women shortlists if the behaviour of Conservative selection committees did not change.

However, she did defend the selection of Elizabeth Truss in 2009, whose Conservative candidature was called into question after an extra-marital affair was revealed.

In some cases, leadership selection methods for British political parties were not developed until many decades after their counterparts elsewhere in the Commonwealth had long-established methods for electing leaders-for example, the Conservative Party did not adopt a formal method for choosing its leaders until 1965.

Another schism in the Conservative ranks, this time from the movement's right wing, would come when a number of the traditionalist Rabbis led by JTS Talmudics professor David Weiss Halivni split from the United Synagogue to form the Union for Traditional Judaism.

Another of the leaders was Emiliano Chamorro, surly, disagreeable member of the Conservative Party, an opponent of no civic feeling and no moral standards other than his ambition.

Another famous resident was Rab Butler, the Conservative Deputy Prime Minister.

Another division occurred in 1992, led by former Grace Seminary professor John C. Whitcomb forming Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International.

Another vital part of ' Building Stable Communities ' was the removal of homeless voters and others who lived in hostels and were perceived less likely to vote Conservative, such as students and nurses, from the City of Westminster.

Another member of the Wood family was the Conservative politician Richard Wood, Baron Holderness.

Another member of the Onslow family was the Conservative politician Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking.

Another member of the family was the Conservative politician John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham.

Another example is the current coalition government in the United Kingdom, which is composed of the Conservative and Liberal Democratic parties.

Another member of the Bridgeman family was the Conservative politician William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman.

Another member of the Beckett family was the Conservative politician Gervase Beckett.

Another member of this branch of the Ponsonby family was the Conservative politician Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet.

Another member of the Aitken family is the Conservative politician Jonathan Aitken.

Another prominent Conservative Jewish figure shared the Orthodox sentiment about not adopting Yom HaShoah.

Another influential philosopher in the Conservative movement, Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, also bases his views on existentialism, and the works of Franz Rosenzweig.

Another brother, Tim Peterson, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal, but was defeated as a Progressive Conservative.

Another unsuccessful " Liberal-Labour " candidate was Arthur Reaume, mayor of Windsor, who had been a long time Tory and had run for George Drew's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in 1943 provincial election.

Another incident occurred during May of the following year, when the paper's headquarters were attacked by rioting University of Bucharest students, who were reportedly outraged by an article critical of their behavior, but also believed to have been instigated by the Conservative executive's Gendarmerie.

Another political role for Nettleton was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the sitcom The New Statesman.

Another view is found in Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind who argued that the American Revolution was " a conservative reaction, in the English political tradition, against royal innovation ".

Whereas other ministers such as Malcolm Rifkind wished to imply that British euro membership was unlikely, Clarke fought successfully to maintain the possibility that Britain might join a single currency under a Conservative government, but conceded that such a move could only take place on the basis of a referendum.

This allowed Chamberlain and his immediate allies to distance themselves from the main body of Liberal Unionism ( and their Conservative allies ) and left open the possibility that they could work with the Liberal party in the future.

On January 28, 2009, the Liberals agreed to support the Conservative budget with an amendment, ending the possibility of the coalition, so Layton said " Today we have learned that you can't trust Mr. Ignatieff to oppose Mr. Harper.

There was therefore some discussion after the election of the possibility of creating a Conservative minority government.

Polls started to indicate the possibility of a minority government for the Liberals, or even a minority Conservative government, fuelling speculation of coalitions with the other parties.

The Conservative opposition protested against the possibility of increased support for the Catholic Separate school system, while the Catholic minority agitated for the same high schools and other facilities that the public ( Protestant ) school system enjoyed.

A group of Conservative MPs and TFA objected to the possibility that the broadcast would include a message from Mandela or " other anti-apartheid propaganda ".

Mostly due to the sponsorship scandal, polls started to indicate the possibility of a minority government for the Liberals, or even a minority Conservative government, which in turn created speculation of coalitions with the other parties.

The current attorney general Alejandro Ordóñez has became one of the most visible heads of the Conservative Party and some groups inside the party have supported the possibility of a presidential campaign of Ordóñez in 2014.

The New Party has its origins in the initiative A New Party for Britain launched in late 2002, at a time when speculation about the possibility of a split in the UK Conservative Party was rife, during the leadership of Iain Duncan-Smith.