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However, as the Tories had denied responsibility for the recession at the turn of the decade, few voters were willing to give them credit for the economic recovery, and Labour returned to power after 18 years with a 179-seat majority that saw several leading Tory MP's ( most notably Michael Portillo, widely tipped to be the next Tory leader ) lose their seats and leave them without any MP's in Wales or Scotland.
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However, the unexpected surge of the new Conservative Party of Canada in parts of Quebec, particularly in and around Quebec City, led to the Bloc losing eight seats to the Tories.
" However, the Financial Times said " Clarke has in effect agreed to disagree with the Tories ' official Eurosceptic line ".
However there are also Blue Tories who identify strongly with the Monarchy in Canada and other traditional institutions.
However, in the 19th Century, the Liberal Party stood for British classical liberalism and free trade, and the Conservatives, especially so-called " Red Tories ", for protectionism.
However, in the Parliament of 1710 the Tories had gained control of the House of Commons, and they wished for an end to Great Britain's participation in a European war ; Queen Anne and her advisors had also come to the same position.
However, the party ran second to the governing Tories in many Western ridings and earned 2. 1 % of the total national vote.
However, several unpopular policy reversals and mistakes by Liberal leader Lyn McLeod allowed Mike Harris and the Tories to benefit from the swing in support away from the NDP.
However, Orchard did gain respect from PC circles when he chose to stick with the Tories after Clark's victory.
However, the Tories retained power as a minority government.
However, this was largely due to tactical voting in which NDP supporters voted Liberal in hopes of removing Harris and the Tories from power.
However many Tories were ambivalent on the issue.
However, in 1963, he had falling out with Diefenbaker, and became embroiled in the Munsinger Affair and elected to sit out the 1963 election, which the Tories lost to Lester Pearson.
However, the stresses of the War of the Spanish Succession ( begun in 1701 ) led most of the Tories to withdraw into opposition by 1708, so that Marlborough and Godolphin were heading an administration dominated by the Junto Whigs.
However, Pitt rejected the Tory label, preferring to refer to himself as an ' Independent Whig ', for, unlike the Tories of the first half of the eighteenth century, he believed in the current constitutional arrangement as being well balanced, without particular favour towards the royal prerogative.
However, the Conservatives unexpectedly lost three seats to the Liberals in Calgary, where the Tories had previously held every seat.
However, he split with the Tories over electoral reform and later served as a member of the cabinet in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne as Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834 and once again as Lord Privy Seal between July and November 1834.
However, the Tories were cut down to a minority government, in which the Tories had only four more seats than the Liberals and were 11 seats short of a majority.
However, the rest of the Canadian population opposes the manifesto, including the Tories of Canada West, who favour provincial union.
However, the Tories complained that Whiteway's Liberals had promised jobs to Newfoundlanders who voted for him and filed petitions in the Supreme Court under the Corrupt Practices Act against fifteen Liberal members of the House alleging bribery and corruption.
However, the third party never materialised and the group instead joined the Tories.
However as Martin Pugh has pointed out the British Fascists actively encouraged comparisons with the Conservative Party, feeling that it would a sense of legitimacy and Britishness to their activities, particularly as they faced harsh criticism from not only the left but also some Tories for their increasingly paramilitary structure.
However, an attack by Tories and Indians threatens the valley, and the militia is called up.
However, the Tories were re-elected in 1987, by which time unemployment was falling.
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However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.
However, by comparing the TV snatches, two different radio station re-runs, and the censored Los Angeles Times version, I found that the radio stations had edited out questions ( ABC removed the one regarding Laos ) or even a paragraph out of the middle of the President's answer.
However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.
However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.
However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.
However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.
However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.
However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.
However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.
However, his term was marked by economic depression that had grown out of the Panic of 1873, which Mackenzie's government was unable to alleviate.
However, much of southeastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism ( the Visigoths converted to Arian Christianity in 376 ), which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.
However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display.
However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.
However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.
However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.
However, Leofgar lost the battle and his life, and Edward had to sue for peace.
However, Peter had wished his son and heir to dedicate himself to the service of new Russia, and demanded from him unceasing labour in order to maintain Russia's new wealth and power.
However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.
However, near the French border, General Mola had him arrested and expelled from the country.
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