I am not equating national elections with the times around the American Revolution and 1776. The Pilgrams landed in 1620; ...

The Corn Laws - Prime Minister Robert Peel was caught between the political pressures of the Whigs and the Tories. He ...

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

Badenoch’s elevation is a key turning point in the party’s own Bridgerton drama of loyalties, feuds and reversals of fortune ...

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

A gentry family long seated on the south coast could properly claim military and naval careers, as well as a parliamentary presence, but a ...

For most of the 19 th Century, British politics was dominated by two parties, the Whigs, composed mostly of aristocrats, wealthy merchants, and industrialists, and the Tories, who included the landed ...

I went door-to-door with a Tory candidate in Canada’s last election ... I am reminded of a remark by the great Whig historian G.M. Trevelyan about Charles I’s frequent appeals for foreign ...

Politically, The Tablet’s readers were mostly supportive of the Whigs because they had campaigned for the full emancipation of Catholics, even though, when it arrived the Tories were actually in ...

She was also engulfed in a political crisis when the Whig government fell and Lord Melbourne resigned. Tory politician Robert Peel agreed to become prime minister provided Victoria replaced some ...

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about socialist democracy, one-party systems and the need to adapt party forms to the realities of today's working class.