Reaching back into the 19th Century the Conservatives and the Liberals - the forerunners of today's Liberal Democrats - are ...

British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, ...

Tory Democracy is a political ideology that emerged ... Support for the Reform Act 1867 was an opportunity to “dish the Whigs,” as was Lord Randolph Churchill’s opposition to the Liberal ...

Far from stable, constitutional government being wrung from reactionary Tories by victorious Whigs, it was a product of the tension between them, Tombs argues. “To the Whigs we owe the principle ...

Protesting in public is one of the staples of Left-wing culture. Whereas the phrase “Right-wing demonstrators” seems ...

Kemi Badenoch has won the Conservative leadership with a policy-light campaign, but if she’s really committed to radical ...

As I have said over the last few days, her failure is due to bad strategy, economic forces beyond her control, and a failure to understand the nature of the 2019 Tory coalition. An expedited ...

(The 'Peelite' faction of the Tories is widely recognised as the foundation of the modern Conservative.) Viscount Melbourne, Whig, 1835 - 1841 Sir Robert Peel, Tory, 1834 - 1835 Invited by William ...

Jeffrey Lord makes an unusual claim: Ron Paul is what might be called a “Neo-Liberal.” This is a silly argument in many, many ways, and by the end Lord’s article has devolved into the most ...

was mentally ill and had developed paranoid delusions about the Tory party. Fact or Fiction: The repeal of the Corn Laws caused Peel's downfall. Fact: When Peel joined with the Whigs to repeal ...

The stubborn Tories dare to die; As soon the rooted oaks would fly Before th' approaching fellers: The Whigs come on like ccean's roar, When all his wintry billows pour Against the Buchan bullers.