Several Conservative MPs, known as the Maastricht Rebels, voted against the treaty, and the Government was defeated.

The abolition of rates was in the manifesto of Thatcher's Conservative Party in the 1979 general election, and the replacement was proposed in the Green Paper of 1986, Paying for Local Government based on ideas developed by Dr Madsen Pirie and Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute.

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.

Baljit Singh Gosal, a Conservative Party MP from Ontario is the Minister of State for Sport in the Canadian Federal Government. Vic Dhillon is a Sikh Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

* November 14 – In the General Election in Britain, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.

Speaking to the Aldershot and North Hants Conservative Association on 4 February 1983, Powell blamed the United Nations for the Falklands War by the General Assembly resolution of December 1967 that stated " its gratitude for the continuous efforts made by the Government of Argentina to facilitate the process of decolonisation " and further called on Britain and Argentina to negotiate.

Mark Oaten had previously won the seat for the Liberal Democrats during the 1997 general election in which he defeated Gerry Malone, a Health Minister in John Major's Conservative Government.

In 1996, in a symbolic response to growing dissatisfaction among Scots at the prevailing constitutional settlement, the British Conservative Government decided that the Stone should be kept in Scotland when not in use at coronations.

Heath, who had himself applied to be the Conservative candidate for the by-election, accused the government in an October Union Debate of " turning all four cheeks " to Hitler, and was elected as President of the Oxford Union in November 1938, sponsored by Balliol, after winning the Presidential Debate that " This House has No Confidence in the National Government as presently constituted ".

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

When Labour won more seats ( though fewer votes ) than the Conservative Party in February 1974 and Heath was unable to persuade the Liberals to form a coalition, Wilson returned to 10 Downing Street on 4 March 1974 as Prime Minister of a minority Labour Government.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Conservative Government promoted the Youth Training Scheme, National Vocational Qualifications and General National Vocational Qualifications.

In 1961, Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government legalised betting shops and tough measures were enacted to ensure that bookmakers remained honest.

Consequentially the paper opposed Macmillan ’ s government ’ s re-election in 1959, complaining: " The continued Conservative pretence that Suez was a good, a noble, a wise venture has been too much to stomach … the Government is taking its stand on a solid principle: ' Never admit a mistake.

The resulting unsuccessful exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia by the Conservative Australian Government succeeded in energising Communism in Australia and resulted in Kisch staying longer than Barbusse had intended.

For a full list of Ministerial office-holders, see Conservative Government 1957-1964.

The new Conservative Government, led by Benjamin Disraeli, passed a bill to postpone the coming-into-force of the bill until 1875.

The Cabinet considered resigning and leaving it up to Balfour to try to form a Conservative Government.

The terms " Labour " and " Conservative " are scrupulously avoided throughout the series, favouring terms such as " the party " or " the Government " and " the opposition ".

This is because the BBC came under fire from the Conservative Government due to the sensitivity of the subject matter of the Étaples Mutiny in 1919 at " The Bull Ring ", a harsh British Army training ground in Étaples, France.

Britain's Conservative Government was aware that Dan-Air was on the brink of bankruptcy, and wanted to avoid the collapse of another independent British airline, especially if its profile was as high as that of Virgin Atlantic.

Benn continued his campaign outside Parliament, and eventually the Conservative Government of the time accepted the need for a change in the law.

Kenneth Harry Clarke, ( born 2 July 1940 ) is a British Conservative politician, currently the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe and a Minister without Portfolio in the UK Government.

The newspaper went on to attack Charles Ritchie, the President of the Local Government Board and the Conservative government:

While the Whiggish wing of the Liberal Unionists cooperated informally with the Conservative Government ( and supplied it with a cabinet minister ), the party's Radical Unionist wing held a series of meetings with their former Liberal colleagues.

* In April 2012 Conservative Party MP and culture secretary came under pressure to resign as a result of his closeness to Rupert Murdoch's media empire and alleged corruption in dealing with Murdoch's bid for News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB.

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 music of the Roman school continued to be written in his style ( which in the 17th century came to be known as the prima pratica ) by such students of his as Giovanni Maria Nanino, Ruggiero Giovanelli, Arcangelo Crivelli, Teofilo Gargari, Francesco Soriano and Gregorio Allegri.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper tabled the Québécois nation motion the day before the Bloc Québécois resolution came to a vote.

In October 2009, the Conservative Party came under pressure from the US administration concerning its alliances in the European Parliament.

The letter came at a sensitive time in relations between Britain and the Soviet Union, due to Conservative opposition to the parliamentary ratification of the Anglo-Soviet trade agreement of 8 August.

The main attack came from Stanley Baldwin, then President of the Board of Trade, who spoke of Lloyd George as a " dynamic force " who would break the Conservative Party.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

Heath came to be seen as a liability by many Conservative MPs, party activists and newspaper editors.

Orthodox and Conservative Jews hold that the prophecy of Moses is held to be true ; he is held to be the chief of all prophets, even of those who came before and after him.

On the " appointed day ", 5 July 1948, having overcome political opposition from both the Conservative Party and from within his own party, and after a dramatic showdown with the British Medical Association, which had threatened to derail the National Health Service scheme before it had even begun, as medical practitioners continued to withhold their support just months before the launch of the service, Bevan's National Health Service Act of 1946 came into force.

" In March 1952, a poorly prepared ( and possibly inebriated ) Bevan came off the worse in an evening Commons debate on health with Conservative backbencher Iain Macleod: Macleod's performance led Churchill to appoint him Minister of Health some six weeks after his debate with Bevan.

Macmillan found himself drawn more actively into politics after Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader in February 1975, and Prime Minister in May 1979 when the Tories ended Labour's five-year rule with an election win, and the record of his own premiership came under attack from the monetarists in the party, whose theories she supported.

The criticism came shortly after Kaminski was made chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, which includes Labour's opponent, the Conservative Party ( UK ).

Despite the name change, most former Progressive supporters continued to support the Liberal Party or the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and Bracken's leadership of the Conservative Party came to an end in 1948.

From 1964 on, this cadre came to identify more with neo-liberal influences in US Republican Party, as espoused by Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and the Thatcherite leadership in the British Conservative Party, as represented by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher.

In 1845, as leader of the Opposition, Russell came out in favour of repeal of the Corn Laws, forcing Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel to follow him.

No Conservative councillor has been elected since 1987 in the town, although the party came within 13 votes of re-gaining the Denton West seat in 2008 on the back of government unpopularity over the abolition of the 10p tax rate and the proposals for a congestion charge in Greater Manchester with the proposed outer charging zone cutting the ward in two.

Her husband stood as Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton in 1959, and came close to winning Plymouth Sutton in 1964, losing by just 410 votes ( David Owen would later hold for several years for Labour ).

The Krays also came into the public eye when an exposé in the tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror alleged that Ron had had a sexual relationship with Lord Boothby, a UK Conservative Party politician.

The suburbs facilitated the formation of new centers, as Jewish school enrollment more than doubled between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, and synagogue affiliation jumped from 20 % in 1930 to 60 % in 1960 ; the fastest growth came in Reform and, especially, Conservative congregations.

The formation of the SDP and the subsequent alliance came at a time when the British economy was in a deep recession and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was proving deeply unpopular as unemployment had risen from just over 1, 500, 000 since they came to power in May 1979 to 3, 000, 000 and beyond by 1982, mainly due to the closure of many factories as part of the battle against inflation.

A Conservative election win was looking even more likely as 1982 drew to a close, as Mrs Thatcher's economic policies were proven to be successful as the recession came to an end and inflation had been cut to 4 % from a massive 27 % within four years, although unemployment remained above 3, 000, 000.