As early as 1946 the Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross attacked " the campaign of calumny and misrepresentation which the Tory Party and the Tory stooge press has directed at the Labour government.

After the Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne, Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing " Tory " pamphlets that actually undermined the Tory point of view.

Accordingly, the Tory / Conservative Party leader the Earl of Derby was asked to form a " minority government.

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

A series of scandals among leading Tory MP's also did Major and his government no favours.

However, the Gladstone Liberal government fell in 1874 before its entry into force, and the succeeding Disraeli Tory government suspended the entry into force of the Act by means of further Acts passed in 1874 and 1875.

However, the CCF and Socreds had pledged to cooperate with a Tory government, meaning that St. Laurent would have likely been defeated in the legislature in any event.

The Tory government was dividing the country and proving highly controversial as its monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation were contributing to a significant rise in unemployment which had helped plunge Britain's economy into recession earlier in 1980.

" In 1803, William Pitt the Younger, also a Tory, suggested to a friend that " this person generally called the first minister " was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.

Throughout the course of Canadian history, the Conservative Party was generally controlled by MacDonaldian Tory elements, which in Canada meant an adherence to the English-Canadian traditions of Monarchy, Empire-Commonwealth, parliamentary government, nationalism, protectionism, social reform, and eventually, acceptance of the necessity of the welfare state.

The 1986 creation of the Reform Party of Canada attracted some of the neo-liberals and social conservatives away from the Tory party, and as some of the neoconservative policies of the Mulroney government proved unpopular, some of the provincial-rights elements moved towards Reform as well.

Moreover, the Whig ministry that had lent its support to the war fell, and the new Tory government that replaced it sought peace.

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

* England's Tory government reduces the standing army to 7, 000 men who must all be British by birth.

His early ministry was largely Tory, but gradually the government came to be dominated by the so-called Junto Whigs, a group of younger Whig politicians who led a tightly organised political grouping.

Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.

The Jacobite Uprising of 1715 discredited much of the Tory party as traitorous Jacobites, and Whig control of the levers of power ( e. g., through the Septennial Act ) ensured that the Whigs became the dominant party of government.

The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.

As Foreign Secretary, Owen was identified with the Anglo-American plan for then-Rhodesia, which formed the basis for the Lancaster House Agreement, negotiated by his Tory successor, Lord Carrington in December 1979.

The cantata celebrates Queen Anne's birthday, and the accomplishment of the Treaty of Utrecht ( negotiated by the Tory ministry of Anne in 1712 ) to end the War of the Spanish Succession.

They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

Bute was a Tory who wished to bring the war to an end, which he did with the Treaty of Paris.

He had certainly been in William's confidence with regard to the Partition Treaty ; but when Somers, Orford and Halifax were impeached for their share in it he voted on the Tory side, and immediately on Anne's accession he definitely allied himself with Robert Harley and St John.

He was opposed to ceding greater power to Brussels, in 1993 he was the only Tory who refused to vote for the Maastricht Treaty when it was made into a motion of confidence.

Queen Anne had created 12 Tory peers to vote through the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.

The War ended following the Tory political victory in 1710 in Britain which led to the Peace of Utrecht — the peace with France which granted Spain's crown to the French candidate but divided Spain's external territories.

By 1713 – 14, however, the Tory government had fallen, and Swift was " rewarded " with the Deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin — a reward he considered an exile.

Immediately on the expiration of his sentence ( 13 April 1713 ) he was instituted to the valuable rectory of St Andrew's, Holborn, by the new Tory ministry, who despised the author of the sermons, although they dreaded his influence over the mob.

His first poetry publication came in 1713, the year of the height of the Tory ministry under Queen Anne with Poems on Several Occasions.

Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered parliament in 1710 and became Secretary at War in the Tory ministry in 1712 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1713.

After their father's death in 1687, the girls became wards of their cousin, John Manley ( 1654 – 1713 ), a Tory MP.

And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

In July 1852, a general election of Parliament was held which resulted in the election of 325 Tory / Conservative party members to Parliament.

The main opposition to the Tory / Conservative Party was the Whig Party, which elected 292 members of the party to the Parliament in July 1852.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

As a political conservative and advocate of the Union with England, Scott helped to found the Tory Quarterly Review, a review journal to which he made several anonymous contributions.

Tory sympathy for the Stuarts ran deep however and some supported Jacobitism, which saw them isolated by the Hanoverians until Lord Bute's ministry under George III.

Conservatism emerged by the end of the 18th century — which synthesised moderate Whig positions and some of the old Tory values to create a new political ideology, in opposition to the French Revolution.

Titus Oates applied the term " Tory ," which then signified an Irish robber, to those who would not believe in his Popish plot, and the name gradually became extended to all who were supposed to have sympathy with the Catholic Duke of York.

English Tories from the time of the Glorious Revolution up until the Reform Bill of 1832 were characterized by strong monarchist tendencies, support for the Church of England, and hostility to reform, while the Tory Party was an actual organization which held power intermittently throughout the same period.

The modern Conservative Party was founded in 1834 and is an outgrowth of the Tory movement or party, which began in 1678.

The modern Liberal Party had been founded in 1859 as an outgrowth of the Whig movement or party ( which began at the same time as the Tory party and was its historical rival ) as well as the Radical and Peelite tendencies.

Like his father, Robert Walpole was a zealous member of the Whig Party which was then more powerful than the opposing Tory Party.