* 1992 – John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe ( born 4 October 1947 ) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

He played an instrumental role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party after the Corn Laws schism of 1846.

Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

" If the remainder of the Conservative Party could muster the electoral support necessary to form a government, then Disraeli was now guaranteed high office.

This purchase allowed him to stand for the county, which was " essential " if one was to lead the Conservative Party at the time.

As well as the end of Gladstone's formal association with the Conservative Party.

Disraeli even favoured certain concessions to the " free traders " in order to broaden the support for the Conservative Party.

Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

Disraeli's efforts over the past two years had dispelled, for the time being, any doubts about him succeeding Derby as leader of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister.

The proposal divided the Conservative Party while reuniting the Liberals under Gladstone's leadership.

After six years in opposition, Disraeli and the Conservative Party won the election of 1874, giving the party its first absolute majority in the House of Commons since the 1840s.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

( This prohibition has been relaxed in many Reform and some Conservative congregations.

Conservative backbench MSP Brian Monteith has the whip withdrawn for briefing against his leader to the Scotland on Sunday newspaper.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Conservative Judaism has its roots in the school of thought known as Positive-Historical Judaism, developed in 1850s Germany as a reaction to the more liberal religious positions taken by Reform Judaism.

Conservative leaders agreed that these contrasting trends indicated that the movement has reached a crossroads as it headed into the 21st century.

Examining Jewish history and rabbinic literature through the lens of academic criticism, Conservative Judaism believes that halakha has always evolved to meet the changing realities of Jewish life, and that it must continue to do so in the modern age.

They believe that the Orthodox Jewish movements, on the theological right, have erred by slowing down, or stopping, the historical development of Jewish law: " Conservative Judaism believes that scholarly study of Jewish texts indicates that Judaism has constantly been evolving to meet the needs of the Jewish people in varying circumstances, and that a central halakhic authority can continue the halakhic evolution today.

However, the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism has a different sociological approach to this issue than does Orthodoxy, although agreeing religiously.

Conservative Judaism has come under criticism from a variety of sources such as:

Over the years, Conservative Judaism has experienced internal criticism.

It has animated a great deal of social reform undertaken by successive Conservative governments.

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

The Conservative Party has for years been split on the issue of Europe, with some arguing for the full withdrawal subject to a referendum but many supporting the Union though powers should be sought back from Brussels and the Union should be less of a political and economic union.

The Labour Party membership is more eurosceptic than the party leadership, which is something the Conservative leadership has sought to exploit.

The town is part of the Havant constituency, which has for many years been a safe Conservative seat.

The town has active branches of the Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and United Kingdom Independence Party.

Hayek stated that if the Conservative leader had said " that free choice is to be exercised more in the market place than in the ballot box, she has merely uttered the truism that the first is indispensable for individual freedom while the second is not: free choice can at least exist under a dictatorship that can limit itself but not under the government of an unlimited democracy which cannot ".

His essay has served as an inspiration to other liberal-minded economists wishing to distinguish themselves from conservative thinkers, for example James M. Buchanan's essay " Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism ".

He has also written for The American Conservative and LewRockwell. com.

Since 1983 it has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Hastings and Rye ; the current MP, since 2010, is Amber Rudd of the Conservative Party.

The Labour Party has an overall control of the council with 17 seats, whilst the Conservative Party holds 14 seats and the Liberal Democrat party has 1 seat.

In Scotland's first referendum on devolution, held in March 1979, he campaigned for a " Yes " vote alongside the Conservative Alick Buchanan-Smith and the Liberal Russell Johnston.

While he campaigned for Conservative candidates in the 1917 federal election he did not stand for re-election himself.

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS ( 9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham ( 1950 – 1963 ), was a British politician who was known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing.

He subsequently guided through legislation abolishing the closed shop, and campaigned vigorously for Thatcher in the first ballot of the 1990 Conservative Party leadership contest, although he told her a day before she resigned that he felt she wasn't going to win and that John Major was better placed to defeat Michael Heseltine.

Lord took a keen interest in politics as a child ; he first campaigned for the New Brunswick New Democratic Party while a university student but joined the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick in 1995.

The patriotic stance of the CPGB was such that in 1943 at a by-election in Cardiff they actively campaigned for the Conservative Party candidate against Fenner Brockway, the Independent Labour Party candidate.

John Major, the Conservative prime minister before May 1997, campaigned during the 1997 general election on the slogan " 72 hours to save the union ".

In one such by-election in Cardiff, this was with the result that Fenner Brockway, the ILP candidate, found himself opposed by a Conservative candidate for whom the local Communist Party actively campaigned.

The Progressive Conservative Party under Jean Charest campaigned on securing national unity in Canada by recognizing Quebec as being a distinct society within Canada.

Tim Hudak, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in Canada, has campaigned on introducing penal labour in the province, referred to by many as chain gangs.

Gardiner campaigned for re-election in Reigate, but was not successful, losing to the new Conservative candidate.

MNAs Pierre Gingras, Ginette Grandmont, Linda Lapointe, Lucie Leblanc and Sébastien Proulx campaigned on behalf of the Conservative Party of Canada's candidates.

The Conservative Party campaigned using fiery anti-American rhetoric, and the Liberals lost the election.

In the election of 1972, Stanfield's Tories campaigned on the public's perception that the Liberals were mismanaging the economy with the slogan, " A Progressive Conservative government will do better.

Bercow was re-elected, and in second place with 10, 331 votes was John Stevens, a former Conservative MEP who campaigned as an independent accompanied by " Flipper the Dolphin " ( a reference to MPs flipping second homes ).

In the 2006 federal campaign, he campaigned for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and endorsed former provincial minister Jim Flaherty.

Harris campaigned in Toronto — Danforth and finished fourth against New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton with 2, 575 votes ( 5. 4 %) -- 400 votes behind the Conservative candidate.

In the 1995 provincial election, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Mike Harris campaigned on reducing the level of government in Ontario, and promised to examine Metropolitan Toronto with an eye to eliminating it.

In 1957, he campaigned for Progressive Conservative candidate and future Quebec cabinet minister Remi Paul.

The Islington Liberal Democrats advocated the reopening of the station in their 2006 local election manifesto, and at least one candidate for the Islington Conservative Party has similarly campaigned for the station to be reopened.

He campaigned for the federal New Democratic Party in the 1984 election, and defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Dan Chilcott by 54 votes to win the Ottawa Centre riding.

Frustrated in negotiations with the federal Liberal government, Haultain became increasingly identified with the Conservative Party and campaigned for it in the 1904 federal election.

Pallister campaigned for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in 1998, on a right-wing platform designed to win back voters who had left the party for Reform.

The Conservative Party of Canada campaigned for many years to repeal portions of the registry and did so on April 5, 2012.