The Conservatives also sparred with the Liberal Party due to its connections with French Canadian nationalists including Henri Bourassa who wanted Canada to distance itself from Britain, and demanded that Canada recognize that it had two nations, English Canada and French Canada, connected together through a common history.

* 1994-onwards: a system in which the three central parties ( EPP, PES and ELDR ) have voted as much with each other as with their smaller allies, thus ' governing ' the system, and facing different oppositions from the left ( European Left and Greens and leftist euroskeptics ) and from the right ( Gaullists, British Conservatives, rightist euroskeptics and nationalists ).

At this point Lloyd George resigned, and on 5 December 1916, no longer enjoying the support of the press or of leading Conservatives, Asquith himself resigned, declining to serve under any other Prime Minister ( Balfour or Bonar Law having been mooted as potential new leaders of the coalition ).

" When King sought to absorb Progressives into his Liberal Party to form a stronger coalition against the Conservatives, Stewart opposed cooperation with the UFA leaders who made up a large part of the Progressives ' Albertan base.

Conservatives forced the passage of the Peace Preservation Law because the party leaders and politicians of the Taishō era had felt that, after World War I, the state was in danger from revolutionary movements.

In October 2003, the talks culminated in federal conservative leaders Peter MacKay and Stephen Harper signing an agreement in principle to merge the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada.

The party's prospects in 1978 were good, but it changed leaders on the eve of the election, and, under Joseph Daigle was defeated narrowly by the Progressive Conservatives.

It was to be its calls for the restoration of the empire and reassertion of the notion of English people as the world's natural leaders that ultimately saw the group become estranged from the Conservatives, as the League was increasingly divorced from the one nation conservatism that came to dominate the party.

1896 was the first election held after the death of Macdonald in 1891, and the Conservatives had been in complete disarray in the ensuing years, with no less than four different leaders.

Several trends would also begin in 2004 which signaled the Liberal party's decline ; notably a high turnover of permanent party leaders ( in contrast to their predecessors who usually served over two or more elections ), and its inability to raise campaign funds competitively once Chrétien banned corporate donations, and it would gradually lose support to the Conservatives, and later to the NDP.

Anti-Confederate leader Albert Smith and Confederate Peter Mitchell were both Conservatives, while one of the most prominent leaders of the pro-Confederation forces, Samuel Leonard Tilley, was a Liberal.

On April 10, 2011 Green party leader Elizabeth May participated in a panel interview on CHCH, which she was invited to attend, as were the leaders of the Bloc, Liberals, NDP and Conservatives, by Channel Zero, whose president was disappointed by May's exclusion from the 2011 election leaders ' debates.

The Labour Party had traditionally feared the consequences of EEC membership, such as the large differentials between the high price of food under the Common Agricultural Policy and the low prices prevalent in Commonwealth markets, as well as the loss of economic sovereignty and the freedom of governments to engage in socialist industrial policies, and party leaders stated their opinion that the Conservatives had negotiated unfavourable terms for Britain.

Question Time began with a panel of four guests, usually one member from each of the three major parties ( the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats ) and another public figure, for example non-governmental organisation directors, newspaper columnists, or religious leaders.

At one point, he argued that, had they not died young, the leaders of 1848 could have found themselves best represented by the Conservatives.

In January 2007, the Conservatives appointed two powerful Ontario police union leaders to an advisory committee.

The Conservatives produced some notable leaders, like Mexico's Agustín de Iturbide and Guatemala's Rafael Carrera.

Conservatives drew on new organizational networks of think tanks, industry groups, and citizen-oriented organizations, and they began to deploy new strategies that affirmed the rights of individuals to their property, protection of extraction rights, to hunt and recreate, and to pursue happiness unencumbered by the federal government at the expense of resource conservation.

Lloyd George began to feel the weight of the coalition with the Conservatives after the war.

The resulting government was generally referred to as " Unionist ", and the distinction between Conservatives and Liberal Unionists began to dissolve.

The 40th session of parliament began on November 27, 2008, with a fiscal update by the Conservatives that outlined their agenda for the upcoming term.

Layton along with Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe began negotiations to form a coalition that would replace the Conservatives as the government.

The Conservatives soon began to get annoyed that they were unable to criticise the Government, and took this into Parliament ; rather than criticising policy, they would attack individual ministers, including the Lord Chancellor ( who they considered " far too enamoured of German culture ") and the Home Secretary, who was " too tender to aliens ".

Conservatives in the House of Lords began to publicly oppose the coalition, and disregarded calls for support from Chamberlain.

Shortly after he lost his riding in 1989, a group of Calgary Conservatives, including party budget director Jack Major and Getty's old leadership rival Ron Ghitter, began making plans to force party renewal, with or without Getty.

Conservatives within the group began to have problems with the perceived liberalism of the leadership, upon the same grounds described earlier in the accepting of instrumental music in worship.

Conservatives began to notice that the only way to defeat the incumbent Liberals was to Unite the Right-to form one unified conservative party which could defeat the Liberals.

Some suggested that the Tories helped the NDP so they could continue to split the vote with the Liberals, although the Conservatives had stated before the election campaign even began that reducing official party status to eight seats was part of the seat reduction plan from the very beginning.

Conservatives began criticizing it before it was broadcast and claimed that it put words in Reagan's mouth and condemned it as " leftist " historical revisionism.

Once elected Cameron began discussions with right-wing and eurosceptic parties in other European countries, mainly in eastern Europe, and in July 2006 he concluded an agreement to form the Movement for European Reform with the Czech Civic Democratic Party, leading to the formation of a new European Parliament group, the European Conservatives and Reformists, in 2009 after the European Parliament elections.

Bob ’ s political career began as Chairman of the Aston University Conservative Association between 1967 and 1969 and Chairman of Westbury Constituency Young Conservatives from 1973 until 1976.

Negotiations with Conservative Central Office began after a meeting on 25 September, when the Conservatives had reassured MacDonald that it would not be difficult to come to agreement.

With the general down turn nationally for the Conservatives in 1990s, the Labour Party and to a lesser extent the Liberal Democrats began to make gains at the expense of Conservatives and at the high point of anti-conservative sentiment there remained only four Conservative councillors within the authority.

As such, when John A. Macdonald's Conservatives were returned to power in 1878, the local balance of power began to shift.

Conservatives began to share his concern when in 1992, four days before the election, Lawrence Walsh announced the re-indictment of former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair.

Reformers and Conservatives separated into two groups and a stone-throwing fracas began which lasted about 15 minutes.

The Conservatives feared that they would lose the election again due to the valuable agreement, and despite their general belief that it would do Canada good, began to campaign against it.

Rumours began to circulate that Kwinter was planning to defect to the Progressive Conservatives in the event that he was defeated.

During the period 1947-1979 the post-war consensus economic model allowed successive Labour and Conservative governments to reduce government borrowing from an all time high of 237 % of GDP in the aftermath of war down to 43. 6 % when the Conservatives abandoned the Keynesian style mixed economy and began shifting the balance of the national economy towards free-market capitalism through the privatisation of state controlled infrastructure.

When he was able to speak, Caouette focussed his attacks on the Progressive Conservatives and the New Democratic Party, instead of the Liberal Party, which was Social Credit's main competitor in Quebec.

He was the co-chair of a planned conference for Ontario's Young Progressive Conservatives ( YPCs ) in 1993, and in this capacity invited Reform Party leader Preston Manning to speak to the delegates.