The Liberals formed a minority government with the support of 14 Progressive Conservatives ( Tories ), the latter who had also improved their standings.

The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

The low church Whigs had failed in their attempt to pass the Exclusion Bill to exclude James from the throne between 1679 and 1681, and James's supporters were the high church Anglican Tories.

James was convinced by addresses from Dissenters that he had their support and so could dispense with relying on Tories and Anglicans.

Labour briefly regained their lead of most opinion polls in early 1982, but when the Falklands conflict ended on 14 June 1982 with a British victory over Argentina, opinion polls showed the Tories firmly in the lead.

After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.

He was well regarded by other Labour statesmen including Tony Benn, but came under heavy criticism from others including Denis Healey, who condemned the SDP split as a " disaster " for the Labour Party which prolonged their time in opposition and allowed the Tories to have an unbroken run of nearly 20 years in government.

The Tories preferred to preserve the economic, political, and social gains that they enjoyed as citizens of Mexico, and the revolution threatened to jeopardize the security of their world.

Though Peel's supporters subsequently split from their colleagues over the issue of free trade in 1846, ultimately joining the Whigs and the Radicals to form what would become the Liberal Party, Peel's version of the party's underlying outlook was retained by the remaining Tories, who adopted his label of Conservative as the official name of their party.

" The oligarchic Family Compact was defended by Tories who explained, " The Radicals, Revolutionists or Destructives was composed of all the American settlers and speculators in land, some of the more simple and ignorant of the older class of farmers, and the rabble of adventurers who poured in every year from the United States or from Britain, to evade the laws of their respective countries.

The Liberals increased their large majority mostly at the expense of the NDP, and the Tories under Joe Clark lost many seats and remained in fifth place, but Clark was elected in Calgary Centre in the middle of Alliance country, so the overall political landscape was not significantly changed.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

", taking aim at how the Tories had replaced their proven leader with an unknown.

Red Tories tend to be traditionally conservative, that is, " Tory " in the Disraelian sense in social policy, placing a high value on the principles of noblesse oblige, communitarianism, and One nation conservatism — and were thus seen as moderate ( in the context of classical economic thought ) in their economic policy.

During the American Revolution, in the year 1782, the town was raided by Tories with their native allies, inflicting harm on residents and property.

It is possible that at this stage Chamberlain could have become leader of all the surviving Unionists ( at least all those in favour of Tariff Reform ) and forced Balfour to resign, but even protectionist Tories were reluctant to choose Chamberlain as their leader, not having forgotten how, as a Liberal, in the 1880s, he had been one of their sternest critics.

As a party that depended on an electoral pact with the Tories to maintain their MPs in parliament, the Liberal Unionists had to at least appear to be also ' Liberal ' in matters not connected with Home Rule including some measures of promoting reform.

Based on this single conjunction of interests and the fading memory of the happy co-operation of the early 1770s, the two men who had vilified one another throughout the American war together formed a coalition and forced their Government, with an overwhelming majority composed of North's Tories and Fox's opposition Whigs, on to the King.

Even the Tories, who had declared that should he fail they would " break him up like hounds on a hare ", could not entirely restrain their patriotic admiration.

The Duke and Duchess had risen to greatness not least because of their intimacy with Anne, but the Duchess's relentless campaign against the Tories ( Sarah was a firm Whig ), isolated her from the Queen whose natural inclinations lay with the Tories, the staunch supporters of the Church of England.

Both Whigs and Tories distrusted the creation of a large standing army not under civilian control.

The Liberals wrested three seats from the Tories, increasing their standing to four seats.

In the three years leading up to the 1992 election, Labour had consistently topped the opinion polls, with 1991 seeing the Tories ( rejuvenated by the arrival of a new leader in John Major the previous November ) snatch the lead off Labour more than once before Labour regained it.

Some disgruntled Tories claimed they would repeal the Bill once they regained a majority.

Mostly because of these gains in Atlantic Canada, Jean Charest's Tories and Alexa McDonough's NDP both regained official party status in the House of Commons.

When the Whigs subsequently regained control, the Representation of the People Act 1832 disenfranchised many rotten boroughs controlled by Tories.

The Liberals made little progress in the 1981 election, returning again with 34 seats while the Tories regained a majority government.

The Tories regained the seat in 2005 with Adam Holloway becoming the MP, the first time since the 1951 that the seat had not been held by the winning party.

Edmonds returned as senior policy adviser to Defence Minister Robert Coates, when the Tories regained power in September 1984.

The Tories regained power under Sterling Lyon on the latter occasion, and Jorgenson was called into cabinet on 24 October 1977 as government House Leader and Minister without Portfolio.

It returned to Labour in 1997, but had a reduced majority for Labour in 2005, and was regained by the Tories in 2010.

The Tories regained the seat at the 2010 election with Margot James becoming the first Tory MP of the re-established constituency.

The Court Party soon became known as the Tories, a name that has stuck despite the official name being ' Conservative '.

Like Wilson and Labour, Heath and the Tories were pledged to " full employment " but within a year it became clear that they were losing that battle, as the official unemployment count crept towards 1, 000, 000 and some newspapers suggested that it was even higher.

" However, the Financial Times said " Clarke has in effect agreed to disagree with the Tories ' official Eurosceptic line ".

Running in the multi-member riding of Winnipeg South, he finished well ahead of the official Progressive Conservative candidate, and soon emerged as the leading voice for anti-coalition Tories in the province.

The official opposition Liberals under Lyn McLeod were initially the beneficiaries of the NDP's unpopularity, but their poor campaign saw the momentum swung to the resurgent Tories under Mike Harris, who vaulted from third in the legislature to win a large majority.

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.

In the 1980 federal election, Davis's criticism of Clark's budget was used by the Liberal Party in official campaign documents and it played a role in the federal Tories ' losses in Ontario ; the swing in support enabled the Liberals to regain government.

The remaining Tories, under the leadership of the Earl of Derby ( a former Whig ), and Disraeli ( once a Radical candidate for Parliament ), adopted the ' Conservative ' label as the official name of their party.

Gary Filmon's Tories won 25 seats, and the Liberal Party under Sharon Carstairs won 20 seats to supplant the NDP as the official opposition.

The 1990 election, however, saw the Tories returned with a majority government and a resurgent NDP under Gary Doer regain official opposition status.

The Tories were defeated by the New Democrats under Howard Pawley in this cycle, and Connery became a member of the official opposition.

The Tories were relegated to the position of third party with only ten seats and the Liberals formed the official opposition.