Conservative Party (UK) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-21

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00:02:54 1 History
00:03:02 1.1 Origins
00:04:37 1.2 Conservatives and Unionists (1867–1914)
00:08:10 1.3 First World War
00:09:42 1.4 1920–1945
00:11:02 1.5 1945–1963
00:11:13 1.5.1 Popular dissatisfaction
00:11:56 1.5.2 Modernising the party
00:17:55 1.6 Edward Heath (1965–1975)
00:19:32 1.7 Margaret Thatcher (1975–1990)
00:26:12 1.8 John Major (1990–1997)
00:31:05 1.9 Back in opposition (1997–2005)
00:31:17 1.9.1 William Hague
00:32:52 1.9.2 Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard
00:34:46 1.10 David Cameron (2005–2016)
00:39:42 1.11 Theresa May (2016–2019)
00:44:02 1.11.1 Islamophobia
00:46:51 2 Policies
00:47:01 2.1 Economic policy
00:49:20 2.2 Social policy
00:53:10 2.3 Foreign policy
00:56:18 2.4 Defence
00:56:27 2.4.1 Afghanistan
00:57:14 2.4.2 Strategic Defence and Security Review
00:59:22 2.4.3 Europe and NATO
01:01:10 2.4.4 Nuclear weapons
01:01:30 2.5 Health policy
01:02:44 2.6 Drug policies
01:03:33 2.7 Education and research
01:04:58 2.8 Family policy
01:06:38 2.9 Jobs and welfare policy
01:08:51 2.10 Energy and climate change policy
01:09:27 2.11 Justice and crime policy
01:10:08 2.12 European Union policy
01:13:21 2.13 Union policy
01:16:12 2.14 British constitution
01:17:16 3 Organisation
01:17:25 3.1 Party structure
01:19:42 3.2 Membership
01:20:52 3.3 Prospective parliamentary candidates
01:21:49 3.4 Young Conservatives
01:22:41 3.5 Conferences
01:23:03 3.6 Funding
01:24:04 3.7 International organisations
01:26:46 4 Party factions
01:27:17 4.1 Traditionalist Conservatives
01:29:03 4.2 One-nation Conservatives
01:30:54 4.3 Free-market Conservatives
01:33:37 4.4 Relationships between the factions
01:34:34 5 Electoral performance and campaigns
01:35:51 5.1 UK-wide elections
01:36:00 5.1.1 UK general elections
01:36:22 5.1.2 European Parliament elections
01:36:33 5.2 Devolved assembly elections
01:36:42 5.2.1 Scottish Parliament elections
01:36:52 5.2.2 Welsh Assembly elections
01:37:01 5.2.3 Northern Ireland devolved elections
01:37:10 5.2.4 London Assembly and mayoral elections
01:37:20 5.2.5 Combined authority elections
01:37:30 6 Associated groups
01:37:39 6.1 Ideological groups
01:37:49 6.2 Interest groups
01:37:57 6.3 Think tanks
01:38:06 6.4 Alliances
01:38:15 6.5 Party structures
01:38:24 7 See also
01:39:00 8 Notes
01:39:09 9 Bibliography
01:39:19 10 Further reading
01:39:28 10.1 Historiography
01:39:37 11 External links



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The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, sometimes informally called the Tories, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. The governing party since 2010, it is the largest in the House of Commons, with 312 Members of Parliament, and also has 249 members of the House of Lords, 4 members of the European Parliament, 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 11 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 8,916 local councillors.The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 from the Tory Party—the Conservatives' colloquial name is "Tories"—and was one of two dominant political parties in the nineteenth century, along with the Liberal Party. Under Benjamin Disraeli it played a preeminent role in politics at the height of the British Empire. In 1912, the Liberal Unionist Party merged with the party to form the Conservative and Unionist Party. In the 1920s, the Labour Party surpassed the Liberals as the Conservatives' main rivals. Conservative Prime Ministers — notably Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher — led governments for 57 years of the twentieth century.
Positioned on the centre-right of British politics, the Conservative Party is ideologically conservative. Different factions have dominated the party at different times, including  ...