Conservative Party 🪄

4 min readNov 19, 2022

Introduction

The Conservative Party is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. It is the largest political party in the UK, with 316 members of parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and 12 in the House of Lords. The Conservatives are committed to maintaining high levels of public spending to create a “truly federal United Kingdom”. They also support greater devolution for many areas of government and policy, including health, education, welfare and transport infrastructure. As well as forming the main governing coalition since 2010 with Liberal Democrats, they are part of an informal group comprising Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs from Northern Ireland who generally share their socially conservative views on social issues like abortion rights, LGBT rights — see DUP entry for more information[1]

Ideologies

The Conservative Party is a centre-right political party, which means that it is more moderate than either the left or right. It’s also part of an alliance between parties on both sides of the political spectrum:

The Conservative Party (UK)
New Zealand National Party

History

The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 as the Conservative Party by Sir Robert Peel. In 1912, the party merged with the Liberal Unionist Party to form the current Conservative and Unionist Party.

It has been a dominant force in UK politics since 1834 when it first won power under Benjamin Disraeli (who became Prime Minister). Since then it has usually won one out of two elections held every five years; this has been achieved despite its often divided nature, with many different factions within both Houses of Parliament who disagree on policy issues such as welfare reform or whether Britain should remain part of Europe after Brexit (although most members support remaining part of Europe).

Policies

The Conservative Party is a centre-right political party. It believes in the principles of conservatism, liberalism, socialism and capitalism.

The Conservatives are also known for their support for British nationalism and national identity (although it is important to note that there are many different types of nationalism). The party wants Britain to remain part of the European Union but has said that if it cannot stay then it will leave anyway.

Organisation

The Conservative Party is organised into Constituency Associations, Area Associations and Regional Associations. Each of these bodies has its own constitution that outlines how they will operate.

The party’s headquarters are in Westminster, London. The Conservative Party has its own youth wing called Future Leaders Programme (FLP).

The parliamentary party meets in the Palace of Westminster where you can find them at room 2.1 on floor 3rd main entrance next to the Members Entrance where you will be checked by security before being allowed into this room for meetings or events organised by the Parliamentary Party Committee on Central Office Staffing Issues

Leadership and support

The Conservative Party is a political party in the United Kingdom.
It is currently led by Prime Minister Theresa May, who was elected on 16 July 2016 following David Cameron’s resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.
Under its current rules, the party selects its leader through an open primary process involving all members of Parliament; only members who are eligible to vote can participate in this process.
The current Leader of the Conservative Party is Boris Johnson (who has been an MP since 2001), who was elected by his colleagues on 14 October 2005 after Michael Howard stood down from his post due to poor polling performance during previous elections leading up until 2010 where he was replaced by David Cameron who went on to win easily against Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister for another five years after Gordon Brown resigned following riots across England caused solely due to austerity cuts made during recession times gone bad…

Electoral performance

The Conservative Party has been in government for more than half of the time since 1945. It has won the most seats in every general election since 1922 and has also won the most votes in every general election since 1931.

The party is currently led by Theresa May, who took over from David Cameron following his resignation as Prime Minister after losing a vote on Brexit during 2016’s General Election campaign (which saw May win).

References

The Conservative Party of Great Britain is the primary British political party currently representing the centre-right in Parliament.

The Conservative Party was founded in 1834 by a group of aristocratic Whig politicians who had opposed the Reform Act 1832, which increased the suffrage to include many working-class men. They were known as ‘ Tories’ because they supported keeping some aspects of the previous Tory government’s policies, but wanted to reform them further. They were called Conservatives because they rejected socialism and communism (as well as liberalism).

In recent years there has been significant growth in support for UKIP/TUSC/Greens etc., with many people looking for alternatives outside mainstream politics.

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

It was founded in 1857 and has been one of two major British political parties since the 1920s. It currently leads government with a majority in the House of Commons; it is also the largest single party in Scotland by votes won and seats held (since 1999).

Conclusion

The Conservative Party is the largest in the House of Commons and, at 38.5%, the second-largest party in the United Kingdom. The party has a long history dating back to 1834, but was not formally founded as a political organisation until 1859 under its first leader William Ewart Gladstone. However, it played little role in politics until 1886 when it won 12 out of 28 seats in the House of Commons at the general election by taking advantage of strong Liberal opposition after another disastrous defeat for Gladstone’s Liberal Party. The party was left with just two MPs after this debacle but recovered ground steadily until 1910 when it won 244 seats — more than any other party except Labour’s 230 seats — and became Britain’s main opposition party again under its new leader Sir Edward Grey (later Lord Grey of Fallodon).