The first opportunity for the protectionist Tories under Disraeli and Stanley to take office came in 1851, when Lord John Russell's government was defeated in the House of Commons over the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851.

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

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.

With the onset of stagflation in the 1970s, some Canadian Tories came under the influence of neo-liberal developments in Great Britain and the United States, which highlighted the policies for privatization and supply-side interventions.

After becoming associated with repression of popular discontent in the years after 1815, the Tories underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Robert Peel, himself an industrialist rather than a landowner, who in his 1834 " Tamworth Manifesto " outlined a new " Conservative " philosophy of reforming ills while conserving the good.

He then gave the Tories under Sir Robert Peel an opportunity to form a government.

Both parties began as loose groupings or tendencies, but became quite formal by 1784, with the ascension of Charles James Fox as the leader of a reconstituted " Whig " party ranged against the governing party of the new " Tories " under William Pitt the Younger.

This concession, together with the Whig Party's internal divisions and the difficulties faced by the nation's economy, allowed the Tories under Sir Robert Peel to make gains in the elections of 1835 and 1837, and to retake the House of Commons in 1841.

The federal Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from many provincial Tories, especially in Ontario and Alberta.

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.

Rushton garnered much attention from journalists, since he ran under the slogan " Death to the Tories ".

Clark's Tories campaigned under the slogan, " Real change deserves a fair chance ," but the broken promises were still fresh in voters ' minds.

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.

It was placed under siege from Tories in 1777 and eventually surrendered.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut was burned by the British Tories under Governor Tryon.

His government of Tories and Whigs continued for a few months under Lord Goderich but fell apart in early 1828.

The federal Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from many provincial Tories, especially in Ontario and Alberta.

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.

Prior to Sugar Ray, in the late 1980s, Rodney Sheppard and Stan Frazier had been together in a band under the name The Tories.

The Melbourne administration was dismissed by the king in November the same year, and the Tories came to power under Sir Robert Peel.

He was one of a handful of newly elected " Young Turk " PC MPs ( including John Herron, André Bachand and Scott Brison ), who were under 35 years old when elected and were considered the future leadership material that might restore the ailing Tories to their glory days.

After 33 years in Opposition, the Tories returned to power under James P. Whitney, who led a progressive administration in its development of the province.

The anti-Catholic, anti-French, anti-immigrant strain of the Tories was evident under Drew and his successor, Leslie Frost, who embodied all those elements.

Hopes were high that the NDP was on the verge of taking power, but in the 1977 election, the Tories under Bill Davis again won a minority government.

The 1985 election resulted in a minority legislature: the Tories under Premier Frank Miller won 52 seats, the Liberals won 48, and the NDP 25.

In 1978, Edward Heath, the then former Conservative Prime Minister was planning to defect from the Tories, in order to start a Centre Party in Britain with Liberal chief whip, Cyril Smith.

Historically, the Tories originated as the Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island changing their name in 1942 to reflect the development of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

Weir's Tories were defeated by Edward Schreyer's New Democrats in 1969.

Gove is seen as part of an influential set of young up-and-coming Tories, sometimes referred to as the ' Notting Hill Set ', which includes David Cameron, George Osborne, Edward Vaizey, Nicholas Boles and Rachel Whetstone.

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton PC, FRS ( 18 March 1791 – 4 May 1863 ), was a British politician, of first the Canningite Tories and later the Whigs.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

Heath became the Tories ' youngest leader and retained office after the party's defeat in the general election of 1966.

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.

The Tories had slipped behind Labour in the opinion polls during 1989 and the gap widened during 1990, but within two months of Major taking over as prime minister the Tories had returned to the top of the opinion polls, briefly enjoying a comfortable lead after the Gulf War.

Elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, Bennett returned to the provincial scene to again lead the Alberta Tories in the 1913 provincial election, but kept his federal seat in Ottawa when his Tories failed to take power in the province ; such practice was later forbidden.

In the post-war years, Grenville gradually moved back closer to the Tories, but never again returned to the cabinet.

When Macdonald's Tories returned to power in 1878, Tilley again became minister of finance and served until his retirement from politics in 1885 when he was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

The change proved to be a positive one for the Tories, who had trailed Labour in most opinion polls by a double-digit margin throughout 1990 but soon returned to the top of the polls and won the general election in April 1992.

Meighen attempted to make the " Unionist " party a permanent alliance of Tories and Liberals by renaming it the National Liberal and Conservative Party, but this name change failed, and most Unionist Liberals either returned to the Liberal fold or joined the new Progressive Party.

When the Tories returned to power under Mulroney in the 1984 election, Mazankowski again became Minister of Transport.

After the 1929 provincial election returned a Liberal minority government, the Progressives joined with the Conservatives to defeat the Liberals and form a coalition government dominated by the Tories.

The Tories returned to power in the 1928 election under Simon Fraser Tolmie.

The Tories returned to the legislature in the 1975 election.

In the election the Tories were returned to power after 14 years, winning 34 of the province's 48 seats.

Like their federal counterparts, who returned to power in 1930, Tolmie's Tories ' commitment to applying " business principles to the business of government ," rebounded to their disadvantage when the Great Depression hit.

His efforts to revive the provincial Tories in BC were a failure, and he returned to the House of Commons in the 1965 election.

In 1834 the Tories returned to office under Sir Robert Peel, and Wynn was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but again was not a member of the cabinet.

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

In 1951, however, Churchill and the Tories returned to power ; they would govern uninterrupted for the next 13 years.

Two years later the Tories ( or the Conservatives as they became known during the 1850s ) returned to office under Lord Derby.

Bénard was one of only five Tories returned to the legislature.

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

When the Tories returned to power in the 1995 election, Runciman became Solicitor General and Minister of Correctional Services in the government of Mike Harris, holding the position from June 26, 1995 to June 17, 1999.

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.