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As a result, this would give the Conservatives a greater chance of forming a majority government.
Disraeli's term as Prime Minister would therefore be fairly short, unless the Conservatives won the general election.
Conservatives offered Thorpe the Home Office if he would join a coalition government with Heath.
Conservatives would later criticise Labour for having been “ too hasty ” in introducing family allowances.
During this decade and the one that followed, Urbina and his archrival, García Moreno, would define the dichotomy — between Liberals from Guayaquil and Conservatives from Quito — that remained the major sphere of political struggle in Ecuador in the 1980s.
The Conservatives ' relationship to the EPP would become a sore point in the following years, particularly for the eurosceptic general membership in Britain.
This was intended to nominally underscore the Conservatives ' status apart from the rest of EPP, and it was hoped that with the coming enlargement of the European Union numerous newly involved right-wing parties, averse to the EPP proper for its perceived eurofederalism, would be willing to instead enter the ED subgroup, growing the overall alignment.
Major delayed the election in the hope that a still improving economy would help the Conservatives win a greater number of seats, but it did not.
He had never petitioned for an amnesty, steadily rejected all the overtures both of the Austrian government and of the Magyar Conservatives ( who would have accepted something short of full autonomy ), and clung enthusiastically to Ferenc Deák's party.
Some ministers wanted St. Laurent to stay on and offer to form a minority government, following the logic that the popular vote had supported them and even though their Parliamentary minority was smaller than the Conservatives, the Liberals ' more recent governmental experience would make them a more effective minority.
Opinion polls showed that voters favoured retaining Britain's nuclear weapons and believed that the Conservatives would be better than Labour at defending the country.
The National Liberals refused to make this law permanent, while the Conservatives supported only the entirety of the bill and threatened to and eventually vetoed the entire bill in session because Bismarck would not agree to a modified bill.
While Bennett supported the Conservatives, he opposed Prime Minister Robert Borden's proposal for a Union Government that would include both Conservatives and Liberals, fearing that this would ultimately hurt the Conservative Party.
Baldwin's political strategy was to polarize the electorate so that voters would choose between the Conservatives on the right and the Labour Party on the left, squeezing out the Liberals in the middle.
Early in his second term, another corruption scandal, this time in the Department of Customs, was revealed, which led to more support for the Conservatives and Progressives, and the possibility that King would be forced to resign, if he lost sufficient support in the Commons.
During the election campaign, Thatcher, when questioned, again repeated her vow that there would be no position for Powell in her cabinet if the Conservatives won the forthcoming general election.
In April 1995, he claimed in an interview that for the Conservatives " defeat the next election would help.
In it he pledged that the Conservatives would endorse modest reform, but the Whigs instead formed a compact with Daniel O ' Connell's Irish Radical members to repeatedly defeat the government on various bills.
Under the leadership of Reform / CA activist Randy Thorsteinson, the new party never sought a formal link with the CA, and if it had done so the overture would likely have been rebuffed since many Albertan CA members continued to support the Alberta Progressive Conservatives.
On television, however, he had a different message: that, if he called the election, the Conservatives would not be prepared.
Callaghan intended to convey the message that he had not promised an election, but most observers misread his message as an assertion that he would call an election, and the Conservatives would not be ready for it.

Conservatives and more
Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924, and although his government was defeated, he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives.
However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.
Labour lost the general election of 1951 to Churchill's renewed Conservatives, despite polling more votes than in the 1945 election and more votes nationwide than the Conservative party.
In the 1957 election, the Liberals won 200, 000 more votes nationwide than the Progressive Conservatives ( 40. 75 % Liberals to 38. 81 % PC ).
Labour was still more than ten percentage points behind the Conservatives, who retained a three-figure majority in the House of Commons.
Conservatives advocate the " fundamental conservative premise that no one should be excused from paying for government, lest they come to believe that government is costless to them with the certain consequence that they will demand more government ' services '.".
In the summer of 2006, the Conservatives became founding members of the Movement for European Reform, following Cameron's pledge to end the fourteen-year-old partnership between the largely Eurosceptic Conservatives and the more Euro-integrationist European People's Party ( EPP ).
The popular vote was very close between the two parties, with the Liberals actually earning more votes, but the Conservatives had a geographical advantage that turned into enough seats to give a majority.
The Conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long Parliamentary debate Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act of 1867, more far-reaching than Gladstone's proposed bill had been.
The Liberals received a majority of the vote in each of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and 189, 000 more votes nationally than the Conservatives.
The Factory Act 1844 acted more against these industrialists than it did against the traditional stronghold of the Conservatives, the landed gentry, by restricting the number of hours that children and women could work in a factory, and setting rudimentary safety standards for machinery.
He was the last Liberal to serve as Prime Minister, his coalition premiership being supported more by Conservatives than by his own Liberals, and the subsequent split was a key factor in the decline of the Liberal Party as a serious political force thereafter.
This was adopted by the government but there was a public storm when the Conservatives, with covert support from the First Sea Lord Admiral Jackie Fisher, campaigned for more with the slogan " We want eight and we won't wait ".
His " National Liberal " coalition won a massive landslide, winning 525 of the 707 contests ; however, the Conservatives had control within the Coalition of more than two-thirds of its seats.
The more traditional wing of the Unionist Party had no intention of introducing reforms, which led to three years of frustrated fighting within the coalition both between the National Liberals and the Unionists and between factions within the Conservatives themselves.
The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Liberals having two more seats than the Conservatives, but lacking an overall majority.
Chamberlain's position was more awkward than Hartington's, for the former was intensely mistrusted by, and unable to influence, the Conservatives, while he was despised by the Gladstonians for voting against Home Rule.

Conservatives and strongly
Although strongly opposed by both the business community and the Conservative Party when introduced in 1999, the minimum wage introduced in the UK is no longer controversial and the Conservatives reversed their opposition in 2000.
Labour fought the 1973 election on a strongly socialist platform and won with 57 seats to 33 for the Conservatives.
Conservatives, typified by the American Liberty League, were strongly opposed.
His strongly conservative views, especially on land reform, induced the Conservatives to support him as a candidate for the Romanian throne in 1859.
Progressive Conservatives abandoned protectionism which the party had held strongly to in the past and which had aggravated westerners and businesses and fully espoused free trade with the United States and integrating Canada into a globalized economy.
It rejected the National Policy of the Conservatives and also felt that the Liberals were not strong enough proponents of free trade and were too strongly tied to business interests.
Most Conservatives felt strongly that the recent alternation between the main parties ought to be maintained and a Conservative Speaker chosen.
" At the time the Conservatives were strongly associated with the Orange Order which had long held a pro-labour position.
The ruling Labour Party lost a considerable 833 seats, while both the main opposition parties, Conservative and Liberal Democrat, polled strongly, with the Conservatives enjoying the largest share of the vote.
It is my hope that they will reflect the values and beliefs Progressive Conservatives hold so strongly ".
In the preface to his 2006 book, Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean strongly denied Colodny's theory, pointing out that Colodny's chief source ( Phillip Mackin Bailley ) had been in and out of mental institutions.
The Conservatives, and before them Reform and the Alliance, had strongly opposed Senate appointments and unelected Cabinet ministers while in opposition.
He was fully in support of the Conservatives on defence issues, describing Tony Benn's approach to the Falklands war as a " prima facie case of treason and sedition " and strongly opposing the " no first use " pledge on nuclear weapons.
However, Reynolds, who had strongly criticized Belinda Stronach's switch from the Conservatives to the Liberals, told a suburban Vancouver newspaper that he was " very happy " that Emerson was a Conservative and claimed that the people of Emerson's left-leaning Vancouver riding got the better end of the bargain.
Kesgrave is strongly Conservative but voting behaviour in North Ipswich sees support for both the Conservatives and Labour.
This part of the world swung heavily to the Conservatives in the 1980s, and was one of the first places to swing strongly away from New Labour, having narrowly elected a Labour MP in 1997.
It is strongly inclined to elect Labour MPs, although the Conservatives were close challengers in the 1980s and in 2010.
Though he had been known as a strongly partisan MLA, Miller opposed this opposition and left the Progressive Conservatives to sit with the Liberal-Progressives.

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