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Sentence Examples It all gets even more baroque, and, in the short term anyway, even worse for the tories. Indeed, the tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus. The Daily Express claimed that fewer than one in 10 tories supported her candidacy. In 1848, an old man came to the house of William Carleton, author of Redmond Count O'Hanlon and other popular novels and short stories involving tories and rapparees. The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. To essentially claim that he is no better than the Liberals or Tories is plain sectarianism. By 1987 the Tories were all-powerful, and people were speculating Labour would never hold power again. If they can't see that it's the lack of political yap yap that has done it for the Tories then there really is no hope. Council tax has gone up because of the appalling mess the Tories and Liberals are making of running the council. Red Tories are a slightly different breed of libertarians who usually support Canadian traditions like monarchism and anti-Americanism. The Tories are anxious not to upset anybody these days, even thugs and criminals. The Tories promise to build more prisons, which will have the likely side effect of creating more addicts and reoffenders. He was an extreme individualist who described himself as the last of the true Tories. At different times in Labour's history the party's left wing critics have been told they open the door to letting the Tories back in. The Tories are pinning their hopes on a May election and optimistically predict a hung parliament if today's poll findings continue to hold. The entity is now a Crown corporation in its own right, and it's going to be off-loaded by the Tories for no good reason that anybody can see. In the present crisis, the Tories should not be consulting spin doctors, but historians. That's just asking the Tories to send a continuous stream of unstamped junk mail to that address. As a group they are keen to move away from the moral censoriousness and free market zealotry which are typical of older Tories. The main points of the manifesto leave us in doubt that New Labour is at best a centre party and at worst, the Tories, except more organised. Show More Sentences At home, the government has pursued Tory policies every bit as ardently as the Tories would have done. He was once a Labour councillor in the city, but crossed the floor to join the Tories. At that time Swindon south Tories were against the development while the north Swindon Tories were for it. Even if the Tories could surmount their self-inflicted difficulties, their position on public spending differs little from Labour. The Tories don't try to wrap themselves in toe-curling churchiness as the prime minister does. Councillors voted along party lines, with seven Tories against the scheme and five Liberal Democrats in favour. The Tories were rather peeved, and the Liberal Democrats not very impressed. Experts agree that, with an election expected in less than a year's time, the Tories should be doing even better. In stripping farm workers of any union rights, the Tories claimed to be defending the traditional family farm. The Tories also announced their own commission to take an in-depth look at the future of Britain's asylum policy. Of the Tories, there was only one direct mention and one indirect reference as the Prime Minister seemed to have bigger things on his mind. I thought he would disorganise the Tories in many ways because they wouldn't know where exactly he was coming from. There are no prizes for guessing, of course, that the Tories dispute all this. They have somehow to stop briefing against one another, stop setting up new ginger groups designed to damage other Tories. The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown. They had been propping the Tories up and have now decided to chuck them away. The effect of his outburst is happily plain to see in the latest opinion poll showing Labour pulling ahead of the Tories. The move comes amid fears of possible housing and industrial development across the area if the Tories drop the plan at the vote tomorrow. I AM dismayed the Tories are again seeking to prevent the Eltham leisure centre from going ahead. For the record, it was the Tories who started this Gadarene stampede, although they at least have the grace to repent of it now. Show More Sentences If the Tories seem like the nasty party again, disaffected Labour folk could well slouch back home, albeit grudgingly. The Tories say the money is being blown on an army of pen pushers rather than front-line staff. The prospect of ministers sharing in the financial pain may help the Tories sell such a course of action. Labour's problem, like that of the Tories, is all about having the courage of your convictions. The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating. With the Tories flatlining at the same level as in 2001, the Liberal Democrats and smaller parties have been the beneficiaries. Last year the Tories won a convincing victory to take one of Labour's three seats, and will be hoping to take another this time round. And when it comes to looking normal, the Tories are not even in first gear yet. If this was intended as a defining speech, then the Tories still don't seem to have defined exactly what they are for. Even the Tories, desperate to pin the blame on the other lot, have been forced to admit that, yes, it was all their idea in the first place. Given political independence, Scottish Tories would be free to set their own radical agenda. Isn't there a strong case for saying that the Tories are just as likely to lose the election by keeping him? The Tories have unfairly omitted to mention that the government is treating refugees appallingly. However, there are also a number of shameless careerists who inhabit New Labour, often former Tories. The Tories seem to believe that they can harden up their core support through scapegoating. If enough Labour voters haemorrhage away, if the left is divided enough, the Tories can grab this election with a minority of the vote. For the Tories, the depressing news is that they are going nowhere when they need to be making progress. The Tories have little to say of interest or importance on most of the political issues of the day. Pledges to join the European Community and replace short prison sentences with fines would leave modern Tories spitting blood. A more novel sentiment is my lack of consuming gloom at the prospect of the Tories back in power. Show More Sentences We Tories have taste, sophistication and a profound understanding of the human condition. To charm wavering Tories, the Lib Dems have grabbed a nestful of shiny rightwing policies. Newcastle, Manchester and Gateshead remain areas where the Tories are utterly unrepresented. Another of the region's seats, with a narrowish 6,389 Labour majority over Tories last time, declares at about 3.30 am. The result was an unholy mess, with party nabobs muttering darkly about throwing the 71-year-old peer out of the Tories altogether. The Tories have rushed to distance themselves from these rather unfortunate remarks. It is barely even relevant that the Tories are unelectable, people will vote for them just to deliver a point. At the last election, I found the Tories won the campaign but voters concluded they were unelectable. And that is a little worrying, because, forget the Tories, Labour's record is far from unblemished. On Europe, the UK Independence Party has apparently sunk this strategy because it shows that only the Tories are the sensible pragmatists. He also accused Labour of privatising public services more than the Tories did. Like the sun in the morning and the moon at night, we expect the Tories to stick to their twinsets and pearls. We are clearly in the period of pre-election triangulation where New Labour again attempts to out Tory the Tories. Unlike the Tories who are a regional party of the English shires, we can truly say we speak for the wider community in Britain. The political marriage between the Tories and Alliance is all but complete, but there is still a vocal contingent that objects to the nuptials. The Scottish Tories have been very diligent sextons in the graveyard of their political hopes. Serving tea to the Dixon family in Mr Howard's sitting room showed a political touch which the Tories have lacked for the best part of a decade. The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign. Disraeli had resisted the attempts of some of his party faithful to make the Tories a solely Anglican party. These were not political parties in the sense of the Whigs or Tories, or Hats and Caps. Show More Sentences The committee comprises seven Labour MPs, three Tories and one Liberal Democrat. Where I live it's a straight race between the Tories and Liberal Democrats. The Tories and Liberal Democrats deny they are a coalition but we have noted they frequently vote together. But the Liberal Democrats and the Tories did not make the breakthrough in councils they hoped for. Any pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats leaves the Tories one down in the numbers game. Unlike the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, it has no centralised campaign for the student vote. The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues. The Labour councillors voted with the Tories in support of this motion, while the Lib Dems opposed it. Now a real Socialist alternative to New Labour, the Tories and the BNP is on offer. Let's be honest, who cares if the Tories accuse the Liberal Democrats of this or the Lib Dems accuse Labour of that? Yet New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all agree on maintaining the occupation. The Tories and the Liberal Democrats sought to score political points over the crisis. There are middle and upper class socialists, just as there are working class Tories. Undeservedly as it may appear, unless the Tories commit collective seppuku, they are finally heading back to government. It was, for Tories, unthinkable to have a national church with sectaries outside. She claimed the Tories could win all five Labour parliamentary seats in Merton and Wandsworth at the next general election. There's also an effort to put the boot in to the Tories while they're down. Plans to scrap laws which allow parents and patients to sue for billions of pounds worth of compensation were being unveiled by the Tories today. Tories are setting up a war unit to target three marginal General Election seats in Bradford, it was revealed today. Since none of the above are going to happen, it therefore falls to one of the four of us to lead the Tories on to victory. Show More Sentences But too few recognise that voting for the Liberals risks letting the Tories in through the back door. I think the people who voted Liberal Democrat or Green did let the Tories in by the back door on this occasion. The simple fact is that voting Lib Dem risks letting the Tories in by the back door. But in a newspaper poll earlier this week, only 28 per cent of voters questioned backed the Tories. This is best achieved by unashamedly making the Tories a party of low taxation. The Tories will continue to hack away at the British state, handing more and more to the private sector. The Tories will hit back by demanding to know if Labour will give a commitment not to increase national insurance and income tax. The reality is that, if everyone made that same move, the Tories would win an outright victory. They have called for tactical voting in north and south Swindon to prevent the Tories regaining the town. But he should have resisted the intense pressure he has been under from the tabloids and Tories. North Wiltshire, where the Tories are defending a 3,878 majority, also failed to make the pressure group's list of safe seats. We don't want him frightening the horses of middle England when the Tories finally have some momentum. In 1820 Scott, with other prominent Tories, secretly financed the new Tory journal the Beacon, whose aim was to assail radical Whiggism. Tories say the job losses would be achieved through natural wastage and voluntary redundancies. In a fierce attack on both Labour and the Tories, he urged all parties to reach a consensus on how the NHS should be managed. The Tories would scrap rules preventing employers sacking striking workers during the first eight weeks of action, he said. Tories had already suffered losses in the Irish general election of 1713, at a time when the party was still in the ascendant in England. On public sector privatisation and cuts in welfare benefits, Labour and the Tories are united. The Tories whooped and cheered, with Ryedale's John Greenway looking a particularly happy man. The accession of the Dutch prince to the throne had agonized the Tories because it set aside both the reigning king and the Prince of Wales. Show More Sentences He and his Adullamites worked with the Tories to prevent the bill and ultimately bring down the government. Asked to make the same comparison for the Tories, the floaters nominated a gin-and-tonic and cricket. For the next hundred years, the argument would be within the centre-left, with the Tories left out in the cold. But it won't stop fuelling the witch-hunt against refugees which the right wing press and Tories eagerly join. The result was some nice wins against Labour but too many losses against the Tories. The Tories have signed away more than anyone else in Europe so I find it a bit rich when they shout about a referendum. They argue that this is the only way in which the Tories can recover lost support. Tories and Liberal Democrats on the council are thought to want the closures. The Tories were keen to get rid of the National Dock Labour Scheme, which protected dockers from casual labour. This may be the key to why Labour is likely to hold Shipley but lose Finchley to the Tories. Okay, the Tories are gaining big from Labour and the Lib Dems in the South. Her victory means Labour now has 37 seats on Bradford Council, one more than the Tories. Downing Street has the option of going with Prescott and Labour, or with Cameron and the Tories. Critics also complained that Hague focused too much on asylum, making the Tories look intolerant and xenophobic. Thirty-three years ago, he even won a seat on the city corporation for one term at a time when the Tories were serious contenders for power in George Square. Steve Friend told the Comet he believes local Tories are trying to turn the issue into a vote winner by whitewashing over the facts regarding the development. Mostly such Tories were not big, paid-up Thatcherites, but they did enjoy that era very much. But even though he said the Tories had their best chance for 24 years to regain control, he stopped short of forecasting outright victory for his party. Lots of Tories hold a strange affection to the ageing leftie, and when I read the last volume of his diaries he came across as a very decent, generous fellow. Lady Thatcher dipped her toe into public service reform but that was never seen through because she fell from power and the Tories were then overtaken by events. Show More Sentences But the BBC is warning it will pull the plug on those referring directly to the by-election, to avoid disadvantaging the Tories and Liberal Democrats under electoral laws. New Labour, like the Tories, is reluctant to allow an inquiry into Gulf War syndrome, the mystery illness afflicting around 6,000 British soldiers who fought in the war. The Conservative majority was trimmed to a wafer-thin level with many members absent from last night's meeting and three Tories breaking ranks with the party line. In a matter of a few weeks, William Hague, once head of a struggling gathering of washed-up, latter-day Tories, has seen his fortunes miraculously transformed. The Tories were so keen to push ahead with the float that they failed to order a full inventory of the company's assets, fearing this would scare off investors. In the 1690s country Tories attacked the Whig Junto as corrupt. The Tories have really got their knickers in a twist over this. The Tories have reformist policies, but lack the electoral clout. Just as he should be celebrating a new poll that puts the Tories only a point behind Labour, the deputy chairman has resigned after letting the cat out of the bag. A vote for Plaid or the Liberals could let the Tories in by the back door. The Tories and Liberals were easily beaten into third and fourth places. We know that the nation's wealth is all made indoors, that power has passed from the Whigs of the land to the Tories and socialists of the smoke-filled room. There has been a move in this area to vote tactically for the Tories. Strong advocates of an Anglo-American axis, the Tories believe the US is at best lukewarm about what is an essentially European initiative in Macedonia. Leeds North West, which encompasses Otley, has been targeted by the Liberal Democrats and Tories as a key marginal seat in their election campaigns. Dissent may have challenged nationalism, but the presence of neutrals, the disaffected, and Tories never completely superseded the wider community of interests. Any attempt by the Tories to suggest repeal of the Act ratifying the Constitution will be shouted down as xenophobic or isolationist or some other such tommyrot. Even the Tories seem unable to snap out of a me-too approach to the credit crunch, approving each new bank bailout as if dancing on a Labour marionette. They have made obscene profits since they were privatised by the Tories. There is no great victory in this for the Tories or Liberal Democrats. Show More Sentences So the Tories are now simply mirroring what Labour did two decades ago. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems will take single-handed control of the council's all-powerful executive after Labour and Tories rejected a power-sharing offer. The Tories went into this election intellectually underprepared. He said his aim was to slim down the targets to the essential ones, but refused to follow the Liberal Democrats and Tories, who argue they should be abolished altogether. It is the only strategy in town, but you can almost hear the spluttering indignation from the many Tories who remain unreconciled five years after the party's U-turn. And when the Tories were wobbling just two months ago, it seemed that Brown's drudgery might just pay off. The Tories will smell blood and be an effective opposition again at last. The general public of New Zealand contains some who might be soft Tories. But, largely thanks to the Blairite project, the gap that separates the Tories and Labour has dramatically moved its position on the political spectrum. The Tories, most likely to have the main burden of opposition, look at least as unprepared for that responsibility as they appear to be for taking over government. In lieu of a political party, the Tories have splintered into think tanks. The runner-up spot would be an undreamed of triumph for the Tories, but probably her best hope is for a significantly increased share of the vote. The Tories denounced him as a crazed self-publicist seeking to usurp more senior figures to steamroller the country into signing up to the single currency. The new battleground is overwhelmingly a straight fight between Labour and Conservatives, with the Tories challenging in 35 of the 43 seats involved. True, the Tories lost ground significantly at the 1715 general election, but in pocket boroughs rather than in counties and popular urban constituencies. For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits. Finally, the various factions within the Lords which polarized into the Whigs and Tories, beginning in the 1670s, forms the final subject of this study. In colonial America loyalists to the crown were called Tories. As archbishop, he was close to William III and crowned Anne and George I, but, as a leading advocate of the Hanoverian succession, he was isolated by extreme Tories. But if the Tories are really serious about power they must win back seats like Cambridge, an island of Liberal Democrat yellow in a surrounding sea of East Anglian blue. Show More Sentences And he pledged that the Tories would bring back the right of all voters to use a polling booth, as opposed to some recent elections which have seen all-postal voting. The joint committee, which presents a preliminary report this autumn, comprises three Liberal Democrats, 12 Labour, seven Tories and two crossbenchers. The Tories usually have a laughably naff bunch of old duffers to support them and this time was no different with a couple of new kids on the block. Recent results and events disturbingly echo the fall of the Tories. As with the genome, the internet was going to transform our lives, remake society, abolish boom and bust, bring everlasting peace and make the Tories unelectable forever. But with few executive powers proposed for the assemblies, the Deputy PM has been accused by the Tories of offering little more than expensive talking shops. And, if he can do that, what else, what other promises will the Tories renege on? Despite the Liberals's massive majority in the House of Commons, the Tories had overwhelming support in the unelected upper chamber. I only wish that the Tories would apply a similar policy of immigrants having to learn English, to English monoglots moving into rural Wales. Most Tories were strongly opposed, and made dire predictions dangerous radical proposals. Since 2007, Labour have tended to prefer the term Justice Secretary, while the Tories continue to prefer Lord Chancellor. Looking back on Charles's reign, Tories tended to view it as a time of benevolent monarchy whereas Whigs perceived it as a terrible despotism. Both Whigs and Tories distrusted the creation of a large standing army not under civilian control. When the Tories were last in power they were keen on closing special schools to save money. Behind these political enemies were opposition Whigs, Tories and Jacobites. At their inception, the Whigs were protectionist in economic policy, with free trade policies being advocated by Tories. George I distrusted the Tories, whom he believed opposed his right to succeed to the Throne. Or is it Cameron's Tories, stuffed with Old Etonians who have little understanding of ordinary people's problems and even less sympathy? The great majority of Tories refused to support the Jacobites publicly, although there were numerous quiet supporters. The decision so confused Parliament, that Howe was accused by Tories on both sides of the Atlantic of treason. Show More Sentences Today it is still colloquially referred to as the Tory Party and its members as Tories. When the Tories were returned to power in 1834, Wellington declined to become Prime Minister and Peel was selected instead. Wellington was gradually superseded as leader of the Tories by Robert Peel, while the party evolved into the Conservatives. The Whigs introduced the first Reform Bill while Wellesley and the Tories worked to prevent its passage. The Tories manipulated images to show her husband in ads as fat and gormless and made unfounded claims about Labour policies. We're told Michael Gove was sacked because he was toxic and would have cost the Tories the next election. Many Tories voted against the Act, and it passed only with the help of the Whigs. Old Etonian Tories can reminisce about their school days in a language few can understand, using terms like Oppidan, Beak and Leggit. In the spring of 1710, Anne dismissed Godolphin and the Junto ministers, replacing them with Tories. I was of the view that there ought to be clear blue water between us and the Tories on this issue. Grafton's government disintegrated in 1770, allowing the Tories led by Lord North to return to power. However, he resisted aligning himself with either of Britain's two political parties, the Whigs and the Tories. After the Parliamentary elections of 1690, William began to favour the Tories, led by Danby and Nottingham. The poll is seen by many as a dummy run for a coalition pact at the next election when Tories may stand aside in some seats. The Tories tried that with GP fundholding, it didn't work, why will it with hospitals? Although the Whigs were William's strongest supporters, he initially favoured a policy of balance between the Whigs and Tories. The plan, a genuinely popular policy, has been pilloried by the Tories and free marketeers as you would expect. They are unironed and randomly coloured and get along together as well as the SNP and the Tories in the House of Commons. Francis Maude advising motorists to fill jerry cans with petrol was just another pratfall in a hapless week for the Tories. Many of the Queen's ladies of the bedchamber were wives of Whigs, and Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Show More Sentences Between the 1680s and 1850s, they contested power with their rivals, the Tories. Dissident Red Tories who were against the merger went on to form the Progressive Canadian Party. He tried to bring the Tories to his side by making concessions but failed because he still refused to endorse the Test Act. Mr Clegg has put these forward, along with high-profile Lib Dem Shirley Williams, apparently without consulting the Tories. Tories and Labour are arriving too late to convince floating voters that they have immigration policies. James was convinced by addresses from Dissenters that he had their support and so could dispense with relying on Tories and Anglicans. The Adullamites were supported by Tories and the liberal Whigs were supported by radicals and reformists. Labourites will jump on the bandwagon and blame the Tories, and vice-versa. A COMEBACK bid by Sir Malcolm Rifkind was scuppered by English Tories last week because Iain Duncan Smith feared a leadership challenge. But a coalition stabilised by unifying core beliefs is better than a marriage of convenience between the Tories and Lib Dems. He warned the party could be swallowed up by the Tories and feared it would wreck the chances of a future progressive centre-left alliance. That was the argument being pushed by the Tories and the civil servants when the Conservatives were rejigging local government in Wales. But despite his jubilance at the SNP surge, Cameron insisted the Tories were the party who would keep the UK together. He has given more than PS3million of his PS120million fortune to the Tories and helped bankroll Boris Johnson to be London mayor. Helped by massive tax increases piled on to the electorate by the Tories in their first post-election budget, we slowly began to win the battle. He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories. The Tories were yesterday accused of double standards for accepting donations from businessmen involved in a tax avoidance scheme. Many of the High Tories, who opposed British involvement in the land war against France, were removed from office. When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the 'Loyal Parliament', which was composed mostly of Tories. Anne supported the Occasional Conformity Bill of 1702, which was promoted by the Tories and opposed by the Whigs. Show More Sentences It's an issue which is too important to be party political but the chasm did start appearing the last time the Tories were tenuously in control. Our alternative, to vote for the SLP list, would help defeat both Tories and put paid to all possibility of an anti-Labour coalition government. Irish Nationalists, led by Charles Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party, voted against the Tories on a land Bill. Tories ridiculed stammerer Mr Balls as he mixed his words and began to stutter. Pigs not great but okay in the circs of Tories promising tax cuts and spending rises with the same money. Not so long ago the Tories wanted Jeremy Corbyn to win the Labour leadership as they assumed he was a total no-hoper. British Tories refused to compromise, while Whigs argued current policy would drive the colonists towards secession. The party is informally known as the Scottish Tories, due to the Conservative Party's historic links with the Tory Party. However, the newspaper reverted to the Tories for the next election five years later. Some disgruntled Tories claimed they would repeal the Bill once they regained a majority. After the general election of 2015, the nation returned to one party government after the Tories won an outright majority. Tories had always expected the switch from rates, paid by 18 million people, to a community charge, paid by 35 million, to be unpopular. The Tories pursued a Reform Bill in 1859, which would have resulted in a modest increase to the franchise. The Tories remained split and the Queen sent for Lord John Russell, the Whig leader. He did not defeat the incumbent Whig member, Henry Labouchere, but the Taunton constituency was regarded as unwinnable by the Tories. In the early 1830s the Tories and the interests they represented appeared to be a lost cause. Tories were not in favour of union and only one was represented among the commissioners. The Tories tended to support King and Church, and sought to thwart political change. The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. Kinnock was undoubtedly a compromiser but he was also the man to finally beat the Tories, wasn't he? Show More Sentences Many Whigs freely associated themselves with the American Patriot cause, which Tories thought were encouraging the Americans in their resistance. The Whigs generally favored lenient treatment of the colonists short of independence while the Tories staunchly upheld the rights of Parliament. The Tories became a minor, insignificant faction, and the Whigs became a dominant and largely unopposed party. Maybe the Tories did intend to close 75 mines but these mines were massively uneconomic and in a war you don't show all your hand. Number crunchers worked out that there are 49 Tories, 36 Labour councillors, 32 Liberal Democrats and three for the Respect party. When the Jacobite army marches south through the North of England, they are greeted with distrust rather than the anticipated support from English Jacobites or Tories. The Tories would not be so suicidal as to denationalise them. The Tories and Lib Dems have called on the government to consider at least mutualising the utility, which would save more than pounds 140million a year in public subsidy. Conversely, Loyalists were often emboldened when Patriots resorted to intimidating suspected Tories, such as destroying property or tarring and feathering. No matter how hard the Tories spin their Down With The Proles line, buffers like Sir Nicholas constantly pop up to reveal the party's true colours. Although only a minority of Tories gave their adhesion to the Jacobite risings, this was used by the Whigs to discredit the Tories and paint them as traitors. The humiliating climbdown left the Lib Dem leader with nothing to show from two years in cahoots with the Tories as his plans for an elected Upper House crumbled to dust. Neutral colonists were often driven into the ranks of the Patriots when brutal combat broke out between Tories and Whigs across the Carolinas in the later stages of the war. Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were executed or forced into exile. Later on, the Whigs drew support from the emerging industrial interests and wealthy merchants, while the Tories drew support from the landed interests and the royal family. Conroy, the Hastings family and the opposition Tories organised a press campaign implicating the Queen in the spreading of false rumours about Lady Flora. Revered by high Tories who considered him a saintly martyr, he was condemned by Whig historians, such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who thought him duplicitous and delusional. Tories generally advocate monarchism, are usually of a high church Anglican religious heritage, and are opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction. The Whigs thoroughly purged the Tories from all major positions in government, the army, the Church of England, the legal profession, and local offices. Labour Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jon Ashworth said the Tories were trying to shoot the messenger rather than admit their polices caused inequality. Show More Sentences The Governor General, Lord Elgin, had serious misgivings about the bill but nonetheless assented to it despite demands from the Tories that he refuse to do so. In Wales, Labour held 25 seats and gained Cardiff North, Gower and Vale of Clwyd from the Conservatives, leaving the Welsh Tories with eight seats. Associated initially with the Whigs, the Tories started to accept it. He supported the American colonists in seeking independence from the Crown and emphasized the importance of trade when the Tories still supported the antitrade Corn Laws. Legislation for quinquennial parliaments had nothing to do with democracy and everything to do with keeping the Tories and their Lib Dem lapdogs in power. Every Conservative MP who defects to UKIP drags the Tories Rightwards. The Tories and the Anglican establishment were hostile to the bill. Chancellor George Osborne will unveil new cuts in November and the Tories know curbing welfare, which the left-winger opposes, is backed by many Labour voters. The about-turns include his botched plan to sell off Britain's forests as well a list of policy switches forced on the Tories by George Osborne's bungled Budget. There are no votes to lose in England, plenty to garner in Scotland and the SNP wouldn't want to be accused of backscratching the Tories by abstaining. As a committed Anglican, Anne was inclined to favour the Tories. While the Tories favoured preserving the king's prerogatives, William found them unaccommodating when he asked Parliament to support his continuing war with France. Unfortunately for the Glibs, they are not the brave young Lougheed Tories of 1971, but rather, the same motley bleaters they've been for the last decade. Tories in the House of Lords agreed to the disfranchisement of the borough, but refused to accept the precedent of directly transferring its seats to an industrial city. The Tories tended to be in favour of these Acts and so the Nonconformist cause was linked closely to the Whigs, who advocated civil and religious liberty. Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. At the heart of the comment lay, however, one of the most important reasons for the Tories woes, as Thatcherism waxed and waned and Majorism lurched from crisis to crisis. Whether they be Trudeau Liberals, Mulroney Tories, or Bloquistes, runs this argument, Quebec MPs have used their ability to vote as a bloc to obtain too much federal largesse. The Whigs took full control of the government in 1715, and remained totally dominant until King George III, coming to the throne in 1760, allowed Tories back in. The Tories attack low-income families as being benefit scroungers. Find more words! 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