Even the Tories latched onto it: Ted Heath, the one nation Tories and so on.
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Just 40 Tories who are not on the government payroll voted in favour of the deal; 118 Tories voted against it.
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There were complaints from the Welsh Tories that they were not allowed to run their own campaign, unlike the more successful Tories in Scotland.
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Corbyn's humane reaction to the Grenfell Tower tragedy has only sharpened the distinctions between Labour and the Tories, to the detriment of the Tories.
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A racist brand of old Toryism is back, but it's not just those nasty old Tories being nasty old Tories that we should worry about.
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If he can unite Leavers behind him, the collapse of the Tories' "moderate" pillar at the expense of the Lib Dems, likely won't stop the Tories staying in government.
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Leading Tories think that she could do a lot to help win over working-class voters, whom they need to capture to make up for the exodus of liberal Tories over Brexit.
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Both Labour and the Tories have overhauled their cabinets in the past two years—the Tories after the Brexit vote, Labour following the rise of Mr Corbyn—casting experienced MPs to the backbenches.
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The bookmakers have the Tories down as favourites in Copeland.
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The Tories lost four seats by 30 votes or fewer.
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Brexit is widely identified with the Tories in any event.
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The Tories lost 13 seats, resulting in a hung parliament.
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The Tories are also divided over Europe too (see Bagehot).
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By contrast, the Tories are invading Labour turf (see Bagehot).
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The other, the Tories, supported his right to the throne.
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The Tories did so by 2,000 over the same period.
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Small wonder that its voters are returning to the Tories.
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The Tories are weak and strong at the same time.
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The Conservatives are an uneasy coalition of Whigs and Tories.
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Like the Corbynites, the Tories have numbers on their side.
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Yet the Tories still seem unsure how to attack him.
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However, the Tories lost a significant share of the vote.
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The DUP's pact with the Tories does not mention abortion.
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But they are holding their breath over the Tories' plans.
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There are plenty of Tories who've been on gap years.
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The Tories defied the polls and won a shocking majority.
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But we all know the Tories are all in Sytherin.
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All the while the Tories' battles over Europe rumbled on.
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The Tories were expecting Labour to be hit even harder.
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Polls put the Tories roughly 12 points ahead of Labour.
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The Tories have taken a similar approach to social issues.
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If it threw its votes behind the Tories backing Mrs.
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The Tories took control of the local council in May.
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The Tories were the stingiest, promising just an additional £3bn.
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The tension she stoked is now tearing the Tories apart.
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The Tories have also sought to break with Thatcherite orthodoxies.
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The Tories falsely recut a video of an opposition politician.
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With 11 MPs—and rumblings of more to come, from both Labour and the Tories—the centrist former Labour MPs and liberal ex-Tories already make up the joint-fourth largest group in Westminster.
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To win it, Mr Street must tack away from the Tories.
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The second is that the Tories' strategy is a bold one.
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Unlike Labour they would reverse the Tories' most regressive welfare cuts.
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Ten Ulster Unionists could be relied on vote with the Tories.
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Lastly, it would establish the Tories as a truly national party.
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On this question, the Tories have much less to crow about.
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Yet in the local election Lincolnshire swung over to the Tories.
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Local organisers are flocking to the Tories and funding is scarce.
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Labour is at best level with the Tories in most polls.
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The Tories will be pleased with their side of the bargain.
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The Tories can lay claim to some economic successes, as well.
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John Stuart Mill liked to mock Tories as "the stupid party".
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Fellow Tories dismissed him as the biggest Euro-bore in Parliament.
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If the DUP falls in line, many hardline Tories may follow.
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Both Labour and the Tories are deeply divided on the matter.
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Mr Boles thinks that could provide a model for the Tories.
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After the latest defeat, the Tories are under pressure to act.
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And why should members of ethnic minorities trust the Tories again?
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"The Tories will be destroyed and maybe Labour too," he wrote.
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Who better to reclaim wavering Tories from Mr Farage's Brexit army?
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In the north-east voters swapped the Tories for the SNP.
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Business as usual for Labour perhaps, but novel stuff for Tories.
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The DUP's partnership with the Tories is keeping May in power.
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Previously, the advantage would have gone to the more hawkish Tories.
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Tories, after trailing just weeks ago by as many as 20.
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But his party may still hurt the Tories in other races.
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Yet many Tories doubted Mr Johnson was up to the job.
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It fizzled out when the Tories rallied round their hapless leader.
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The first: there were more "Shy Tories" than had been anticipated.
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These Tories have a human face, but it's just a mask.
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BREAK: DUP has NOT yet reached any agreement with the Tories.
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The Tories may lose seats in Scotland, London and the south.
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Tories will take a lenient attitude to members ignoring leadership instructions.
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The Tories loosened the corset of socialism; they never removed it.
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In April, Labour moved ahead of the Tories in the polls.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Tories are favored to win the election.
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The result was an astonishing 22-point victory for the Tories.
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If she survives, Tories can't challenge her leadership for a year.
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Tories [conservative party members] say it's London Mayor Sadiq Khan's fault.
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These Tories are more open than the Thatcherites to giving the state a bigger role in helping the disadvantaged, but they are also more aware than the One Nation Tories of the creative power of capitalism.
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The Scottish Tories were therefore more able to focus on local issues.
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The Tories are almost certain to expand their gains among ethnic minorities.
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Labour led in the younger demographics, while Tories led with older voters.
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Unlike pro-European Tories, hardline Brexiteers have shown themselves willing to rebel.
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BIRMINGHAM was an obvious place for the Tories to hold their conference.
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So far the Tories have taken to this more easily than Labour.
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But some Tories are worried about the people who are joining up.
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In their different ways, both Labour and the Tories fail this test.
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More often than not they are also simply referred to as "Tories".
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Yet who can be trusted more on housing: Labour or the Tories?
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There are reasons to celebrate the Tories' willingness to sound these themes.
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Here are a few mores tories of my time at the table.
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The Tories also almost beat UKIP to second place in Stoke Central.
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It is that their presence deprives more sensible Tories of their judgment.
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The Tories overturned his majority of over 3.43,000 with a 16% swing.
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It is likely to reverse the Tories' cuts to capital-gains tax.
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A growing number of Tories are contemplating replacing Mrs May as leader.
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Only among pensioners did the Tories enjoy a healthy majority of votes.
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The Tories have also expanded so-called sin taxes on unhealthy behaviour.
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This protest vote masquerading as an election will undoubtedly humiliate the Tories.
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Both served in the coalition government with the Tories in 2010-15.
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The Tories' electoral fortunes have consistently depended on support from the old.
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Luckily for Mrs May's critics, the Tories have the most to lose.
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The Tories will not have caught them up by the next election.
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It still lost seats, though not as many as the ruling Tories.
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Mr. Farage won't run candidates in seats held by Mr. Johnson's Tories.
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Only a few months ago the Tories were briefly in third place.
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Headlines Tories pledge 500 million pounds towards reversing Beeching rail cuts on.ft.
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The Tories would win 364 seats and Labour would win just 189.
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Tories are very likely to form the backbone of the next government.
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But on Brexit the Labour party is, like the Tories, hopelessly paralyzed.
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In six years of government, the Tories have failed to dismantle them.
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The Trumpkins sacked the G.O.P. The Brexiters humiliated the Tories over Europe.
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The latest polls give the Tories a ten-point lead over Labour.
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The Tories' list of target voters also includes socially conservative ethnic minorities.
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He is the darling of rank-and-file Tories hellbent on Brexit.
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Johnson's popularity might outweigh the unpopularity of the Tories in Labour's heartland.
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The main contest is between Labour, the Tories and the Ashfield Independents.
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Ms Fairbairn's term is up next year, which the Tories might welcome.
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The Tories seem to have few ideas on any subject beyond Brexit.
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Labour insists the Tories are planning to privatise the National Health Service.
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Yet the Tories' mighty new coalition is sure to come under strain.
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But experience shows that, unlike Tories, Northern Irish rebels are not easily turned.
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Would the Tories run against both the Mail and the Archbishop of Canterbury?
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After five years in coalition with the Tories, people no longer liked them.
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It is tempting to see this primarily as a blow for the Tories.
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In the long term that will affect the Tories as much as Labour.
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The Tories had accepted this idea but put the ceiling up to £72,000.
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But on the last, the Tories' manifesto may prove disappointing in one respect.
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When they won seats, it was typically at the expense of the Tories.
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Jeremy Corbyn's far-left Labour revolution was always going to boost the Tories.
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In 1974, when the Tories lost the election, he considered leaving yet again.
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Even Michael Gove, the environment secretary, has pushed environmentalism onto the Tories' agenda.
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The Tories are making sure that they praise the good version of capitalism.
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The very least the Tories can do is to address the housing problem.
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The split led the Tories into a crushing defeat in the 1906 election.
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The Tories' long civil war over Europe has entered an almost surreal phase.
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A certain degree of ideological flexibility from the Tories is to be expected.
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A growing number of Tories are suggesting she should quit as prime minister.
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Is there really a possibility that moderate Tories will defeat their own government?
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Since 2017 the Tories have lacked a majority in the House of Commons.
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Net migration is falling and the Tories have promised to cut it further.
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Labour audiences love this as much as the Tories relish parading Labour's incompetence.
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Mr Javid has to "get a grip", as Tories love to put it.
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Her June manifesto proclaimed that Tories "do not believe in untrammelled free markets".
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So it is easy to see why Tories are contemplating taking a punt.
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Headlines Tories demand May departure date in return for passing Brexit deal on.ft.
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The Tories are right to argue that this "changey-hopey" stuff is nonsense.
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Tories, meanwhile, have been more concerned with snatching the votes of Leave supporters.
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Earlier, May promised to put the Tories "at the service" of working people.
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Prior to the conference, two former senior party officials defected to the Tories.
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Eurosceptic Tories had wanted a straight veto for Britain, a deliberately implausible demand.
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People getting into debt was essential for the Tories to be re-elected?
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In opinion polls the Tories now consistently post double-digit leads over Labour.
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Leaflets are circulated, which cheer on Labour's leader and attack Tories and Blairites.
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Post-election polls show Labour with a five-point lead over the Tories.
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Labour should have had few of the problems the Tories have with Europe.
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Headlines Tories join demand for Theresa May to deliver on energy pledge on.ft.
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UKIP's rise forced Britain's Tories to call the referendum that led to Brexit.
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I was taught in my American elementary school that they were called Tories.
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The Tories have also won the mayoralty of the West of England region.
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In this scenario, the Tories run the government without majority support in Parliament.
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"It depends whether the Tories are found out or not," Mr. Kibasi said.
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He would not succumb to the jingoistic anti-immigration talk of the Tories.
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The odds implied a 69% probability of the Tories winning an overall majority.
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In Wrexham we underestimated Labour's performance, though we got the Tories about right.
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Its plans to replace universal credit, the Tories' unpopular welfare system, are vague.
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Tories 'paid the price'The Tories "unfortunately paid the price for the chaos that's going on at Westminster — the fact that we've not yet sorted out Brexit," the leader of the Elmbridge Conservatives, James Browne, told SurreyLive after the May vote outcome.
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Her speech in Parliament was addressed as much to Labour MPs as to Tories.
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Even if Mr Corbyn never becomes prime minister, the Tories' weakness is a worry.
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The first group to break substantially for the Tories was people aged over 55.
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The Tories have spent years trying to shed their image as the "nasty party".
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The chances of good government are reduced by the Tories' civil war over Brexit.
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Many factors were to blame for the Tories' failure, not least an insipid campaign.
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" As for the "descriptive or conclusive" part, they tagged the song, "#Fuck The Tories.
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The Tories have been slower to regroup, but they too are teeming with ideas.
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So there was much to say about the Tories and the rise of conservatism.
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The Tories and Labour are too gripped by ideological battles to focus on competence.
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The Tories have long disliked the HRA, passed by a Labour government in 1998.
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The fiasco contributed to the evaporation of Labour's big polling lead over the Tories.
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Hardline Tories threaten to rebel and even unseat Theresa May for conceding too much.
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If Mrs May polls badly or messes up Brexit, the Tories may split, too.
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The Tories' emphasis is on controlling immigration and escaping the European Court of Justice.
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To the south, the Tories won Richmond Park by a healthy majority in 2015.
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The UK Independence Party will not run in some seats held by Brexiteer Tories.
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The shift of the elderly towards the Tories has been turbocharged under Mrs May.
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In the case of Scottish nationalism, Tories and Westminster serve as the existential threat.
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Younger voters, who mostly backed Remain, see the Tories as the party of Leave.
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The Tories are invisible on the campaign trail, failing even to produce a manifesto.
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Yet, given the Tories' calamitous meltdown over Brexit, this would not be so extraordinary.
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But a few dozen more Tories have made unhappy noises about the Brexit deal.
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The first is that moderate Tories are beginning to push back against the Brexiteers.
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Fewer than one in four under-30s backed the Tories in the June election.
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The Tories will still be irreparably split on the most important issue facing Britain.
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"The north hates the Tories more than it hates the EU," he says bullishly.
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The under-25s now back Labour over the Tories by nearly three to one.
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Labour now has just seven Scottish seats, behind both the SNP and the Tories.
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This time the Tories expect to be hammered by Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party.
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It benefits from having a clear message, something both Labour and the Tories lack.
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If she refuses to resign, plotting Tories will have to resort to unorthodox means.
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But yeah, her stock has completely fallen and the Tories think she's an idiot.
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At this writing, May's Tories (Conservatives) have lost 12 seats and kept only 318.
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Thus the Tories are still the party most likely to win the next election.
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Free market Tories generally abhor government meddling in the affairs of the private sector.
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This marked the point when the Tories replaced Labour as the party of Euroscepticism.
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The Tories have a double-digit poll lead over Labour (see our poll tracker).
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Labour's approach seems to be to spend more than whatever the Tories are promising.
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The Tories are quickly splitting into two parties with rival power structures and agendas.
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They hate the Tories fundamentally and it will take generations for that to change.
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During the 2012 Olympics, he was greeted with cheers while other Tories were booed.
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If the Tories win, they'll shrug off critics; the demos has approved their tactics.
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After the Tories fell, Swift returned to Ireland as dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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What's more, fielding outsiders reinforces the stereotype that Tories are out-of-touch snobs.
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Lib Dems are tainted by having gone into government with the Tories in 2010.
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The Tories, whose Scottish fortunes revived in 2017, have lost many of those gains.
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This signalled to many hard Brexiteers that they could vote for the Tories instead.
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Meanwhile, the Tories have attracted more non-graduates and working-class voters than ever.
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Both the Tories and the SNP are presenting the election as a binary choice.
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Tories talked excitedly of pushing into traditional Labour territory, even of winning the most seats.
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But the Tories might gain even more from the collapse of the UK Independence Party.
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Labour's emollient approach means that the Tories no longer need to be macho about welfare.
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She cannot govern, and either the Tories tell her that or Parliament will, soon enough.
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Even among Tories, apparently, the campaign has diminished Theresa May's standing rather than enhanced it.
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The Tories' election campaign has lost its sense of inevitability to mixed polls and backbiting.
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It is helping to lure working-class voters from Labour to the Tories (see Bagehot).
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The Lib Dems are in the middle: more spending than the Tories, less than Labour.
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Another group, the Progressive Alliance, is aiming to unite left-leaning parties to topple Tories.
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Tories are the most willing to canvass voters on their doorsteps and like delivering leaflets.
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The weightiest opposition could come from senior Tories worried about seeing their seats swallowed up.
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Labour slid further, behind even the Tories, in the Scottish parliamentary election the following year.
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Headlines Tories at odds over how long to allow Theresa May remain as PM on.ft.
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Freshening up the party's gene pool is the first task of the Tories' new managers.
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But the Tories have decided to shift responsibility to the BBC from June next year.
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It is easy to forget how much hope the Tories once placed in Mrs May.
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Anne presided over a fiercely divided Parliament, with Whigs and Tories vying for her support.
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And everyone is angry with the Tories for making such a mega-mess of everything.
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Many Tories regard the defence of capitalism as part of a broader defence of freedom.
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The stronger Mr Corbyn becomes, the more desperately the Tories cling to the status quo.
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Others argued more simply that their former colleagues would merely keep the Tories in power.
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Party membership is drifting down and polls show Labour failing to overtake the floundering Tories.
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The Brexit Party's success has strengthened the case for courting cultural conservatives for many Tories.
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The profusion of independents also owes something to the animosity towards the Tories in Wales.
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There the Lib Dems enjoyed a 19 point swing from the Tories, to finish second.
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Mr Corbyn fell 60 seats short of winning a majority, despite the Tories' disastrous campaign.
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Labour is creeping towards a softer position, giving the Tories space to do the same.
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The Tories are likely to end up being the most surprising losers of this election.
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I don't see any defensible position in this election except voting tactically against the Tories.
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They banged on about the Tories' failure to take Bury, an arbitrary and unrealistic yardstick.
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Yet the party has drifted left in recent years, shedding their reputation as "Tartan Tories".
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There are even individual voices of support from within mainstream conservative parties, like Britain's Tories.
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But obstacles similar to those that have tripped up the Tories now face the GOP.
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"The Tories have demonstrated once again that for them Scottish interests are expendable," Ewing said.
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Moreover, Labour is a much more impressive electoral machine than most Tories seem to think.
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So for ambitious Tories, the question was not whether to criticize Europe, but how much.
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Twenty-one Tories voted with the opposition to outlaw leaving the EU without a deal.
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But so far, according to reports, these pro-Brexit Tories appear willing to support May.
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In this scenario, the DUP only commits to supporting the Tories' basic control of government.
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Both the Tories and the DUP don't want that, so the agreement will probably hold.
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His victory — still improbable — would constitute punishment of the Tories for the disaster of Brexit.
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More than 70 percent of Leave voters are backing the Tories, according to one poll.
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It won't just be the Tories that lose; Brexit will also be firmly on ice.
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If the Tories were clear and simplistic, then Labour's message got lost in the fog.
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And the Tories are not the only ones to find fault with the BBC's coverage.
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"A vote for the Lib Dems risks putting Corbyn in Downing Street," claim the Tories.
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The Tories will almost certainly still be the largest party when the results come in.
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The Tories, by contrast, figured out a way to win on a simple Leave message.
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This is not to say that Tories have never been interested in fighting social injustice.
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That may be sound politics according to the Tories' ideological catechism, but it's bad economics.
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After a few months this positivity diminished and it became increasingly clear that that the enemy was not just the Tories, but those in our own party—the Blairites, the Red Tories, those who doubted that our leader was up to the task of power.
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But after a shock exit poll predicted the Tories on just 314 seats, they reacted savagely.
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Even as local Tories sensed that the campaign was turning against them, CCHQ remained blithely optimistic.
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Post-election polls put Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party six or more points ahead of the Tories.
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The main obstacle is Labour, which sees no reason to make life easier for the Tories.
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And you don't need to go around photoshopping anything to find embarrassing pictures of the Tories.
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"They want the Tories to sit on this and die," Newman, the Georgetown professor, told me.
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Tories of all description are furious that their leader has been treated so shabbily by Eurocrats.
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Joining the Tories costs a lot more than joining Labour did when Mr Corbyn was elected.
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For the Tories and Labour, used to the simple left-right spectrum, this makes life harder.
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But that would surely have cost the Tories the votes of many of their strongest supporters.
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Since 2015, however, the Tories have turned a hard-nosed welfare policy into a punitive one.
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On Brexit, Labour sounds softer than the Tories but its policy comes to much the same.
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Mr Timothy in particular is obsessed with refashioning the Tories as a more blue-collar party.
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Labour aides are confident that the Tories' "Diet Corbynism" is no match for the real thing.
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The Tories gained control of 83 councils, including Norfolk, Warwickshire and, most unexpectedly, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
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Yet the Tories look like hounds baying for blood and the Labour Party like frightened foxes.
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Hitherto the Tories have been soft on Labour's leader because they regard him as an asset.
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The NHS, in particular, is an area where it is still more trusted than the Tories.
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Its poll numbers, which at around 40% are slightly ahead of the Tories', have held up.
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But its terms exclude the possibility of introducing a statute of limitations, which many Tories want.
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The Tories and the DUP would resist one, but public pressure for a poll could rise.
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Tories of different factions continue to socialise with each other despite their profound differences over Brexit.
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Likewise, more young activists would bring instinctive savvy to the Tories' haphazard efforts on social media.
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She should also speed up the promotion of the next generation of rising Tories (see article).
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Boris part-Kenyan Obama comment is yet another example of dog whistle racism from senior Tories.
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He wanted the Tories to stop "banging on about Europe," as Cameron once famously put it.
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Were she to be succeeded by a hardline Brexiteer, tensions within the Tories could become unbearable.
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Other polls give Labour only a slim lead or put the party level with the Tories.
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He argues that the Tories need to rediscover their historical role as the party of realism.
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Many Brexiteers spent decades in the wilderness, being dismissed as "swivel-eyed loons" by senior Tories.
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Yet the Tories have survived as one of Britain's two big parties longer than any other.
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Labour is in crisis and the Tories have no plans to simply sit there and watch.
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Mr Messina predicted that the Tories would win 470 seats, giving them a majority of 290.
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Better-off young people, who might otherwise lean towards the Tories, are most aggrieved about housing.
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The Tories had a whopping 10-point over Labour in an ICM poll published on Sunday.
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The Tories will surely oust her at that point if they do not do so now.
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He is right that the Tories were, along with the DUP, the most intransigent of all.
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Townhouses that once contained middle-class Tories have been converted into flats rented by Labour voters.
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A challenge could come from prominent Tories such as Foreign Minister Boris Johnson or David Davies.
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While younger voters tend to line up behind Labour, those over 65 overwhelmingly back the Tories.
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So you have working-class Tories, social-democratic working class people and you have the Left.
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Yet just 52% of Labour supporters say that they will vote, compared with 69% of Tories.
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For other progressive parties, the bot would send ideas on "tactical" votes to beat the Tories.
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After years of austerity, the Tories, the party of sound money, want to borrow and spend.
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The Tories may end up focusing on Leave voters, and on putting UKIP out of business.
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Even so, his decision not to fight the Tories directly is a boost for Mr Johnson.
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That's why, even while the Tories are in power, something like equal marriage can happen. How?
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I'm not just complaining about that regarding the Tories; that's how Blair got in as well.
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It's elementary goodies and baddies stuff, conceptually, with the Tories exclusively cast in the antagonist roles.
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The next prime minister will also come from the Conservatives (or Tories, as they're also called).
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It predicted that the Tories would take 38 seats from Labour if Farage's candidates dropped out.
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A YouGov poll published on Tuesday night gave Labour a four-point lead over the Tories.
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His decision to retire not only deprives the Tories of the pleasure of taking his scalp.
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"What is devastating is the Tories willing to sacrifice the country for the party," she said.
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Labour attacks the prime minister over his trustworthiness; the Tories monster Labour over its spending plans.
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In 2015, David Cameron and the Tories won an outright majority in the House of Commons.
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Normally, she and the Tories could count on scoring high for law and order, but Mrs.
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Chosen by the Tories to become prime minister when her most obvious rivals fell away, Mrs.
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Labour has also done more than the Tories to select candidates who look like their constituents.
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The Tories have done their best to play it safe with their short and undetailed manifesto.
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Labour-supporting Leavers who cannot countenance backing the Tories have an option in the Brexit Party.
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And the constituency's demography is changing in the Tories' favour as Wrexham becomes a dormitory town.
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Current exit polls show the Tories losing 16 seats, while the Labour Party picks up 37.
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Any vulnerabilities in the Tories' new coalition will be ruthlessly found out by the trials ahead.
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So say the hard-line Tories in May's party, their appetite for destruction not yet sated.
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At present, we put the Tories on 320 seats—a few seats shy of an overall majority.
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The Tories have a deserved reputation for being ruthless with leaders who fail to bring home victory.
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If the Tories cannot form a government, Mr Corbyn will have to be given a chance instead.
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Even in its current parlous state the Labour Party leads the Tories among those under about 35.
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The prominence of Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Tories, who wants an "open Brexit", is another.
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Many Tories, however, believe the war-chest is a pot of money squirrelled away in the Treasury.
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People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it.
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The document states that the Tories will not increase national insurance contributions (NICs), the tax in question.
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Too many Tories doubt that plans as drastic as Mr McDonnell's could ever be enacted in Britain.
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Labour (in red) is in what seems like terminal decline — currently down 16 points to the Tories.
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The country's nationalist direction since June 23rd has unified a new, younger band of continentally minded Tories.
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The Tories used to be reliably business-friendly, yet under Mrs May things could be rather different.
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Mr Johnson still wants an early election, not least because the Tories are ahead in the polls.
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When Labour first proposed a similar scheme in 2010, the Tories dismissed it as a "death tax".
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LABOUR and the Tories do not agree on much, but they both recognise that Britons feel squeezed.
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Yet even if the going is tougher than the Tories imagined, the strategy may still yield results.
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This commitment, and the party's ongoing failure to fulfil it, has hurt the Tories in the past.
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Scottish Tories have managed to distinguish themselves from the Westminster lot under their star leader, Ruth Davidson.
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In 2015 Labour won the seat with 42% of the vote, eight points ahead of the Tories.
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Conservatism is a less toxic brand than it was, but Scots still care little for the Tories.
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But if you think the Richmond Park result was a straightforward blow to the Tories, think again.
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In Scotland, where feelings run strongly against leaving the Union, for example, the Tories may lose seats.
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A similar swing against the government would see UKIP take nearly as many seats from the Tories.
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The Tories have also, to some extent, begun to look like the country they seek to govern.
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The Treasury dislikes hypothecated taxes, and the Tories once condemned the very notion of a "death tax".
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The Tories dismissed the notion, touted by the tabloids, that Britain was turning into "Singapore-on-Thames".
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Overall, in Scotland the Tories have already gained ten seats, and there may be more to come.
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Messrs Johnson and Gove did more than any other Tories to win the Brexit vote for leavers.
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Neither the Tories nor the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that props up her government want an election.
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The Tories lost support among intellectuals and working-class voters fearful that tariffs would mean dearer food.
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They claimed that he is prejudiced against the Tories in general, and against this government in particular.
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In the election last year the Tories won 42% of the vote, their highest share since 1983.
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Both Labour and the Tories had claimed to know how to harness globalisation for the common good.
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Hard-core Brexiteers in the Tories and Mr Corbyn's keenest supporters in Labour merrily stoke these feelings.
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The Tories should be focused on an orderly Brexit while confronting economic questions that predate the referendum.
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Moderate Tories, meanwhile, point out that their party embraced cultural conservatism in the 2017 election, and flopped.
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Brexiteers are Tories who are furious that reality has proved to be more stubborn than they imagined.
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Joining a coalition with the Tories in 2010 was a matter of patriotic duty, it still insists.
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Among the Tories, there is a growing clamour for more spending, if not yet for higher taxes.
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But their core issue was Brexit, which the Tories had now embraced, causing them to seem irrelevant.
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Many Britons are repulsed by both Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left Labour Party and Theresa May's Brexified Tories.
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Mr Houchen's surprise win a few weeks before, in May, suggested that the Tories' time had come.
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Everyone's reporting that the Tories lost, which is true in the sense that they fucked up massively.
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Boris part-Kenyan Obama comment is yet another example of dog-whistle racism from senior Tories (Conservatives).
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This would result in a loss of the Tories' overall majority at parliament, The Times newspaper reported.
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This newspaper cheers politicians who reduce dependency and sharpen the incentives to work, as the Tories have.
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The Tories are going for working-class seats with a promise of hard Brexit and social conservatism.
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Crime was once solid ground for Tories, who mocked liberal opponents for their soft treatment of hoodlums.
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Although Sir Lindsay is a Labour MP, lots of Tories want him to rein in their colleagues.
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His supporters counter that he's trying to outmaneuver the Tories in preparation for the next general election.
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If she hangs on, it will be because the Tories are chary of a bruising leadership contest.
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When I see older people voting for the Tories (Conservatives) or Brexit I see completely different values.
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The Tories have lied about how much money has gone in and there is a big shortfall.
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You drew parallels between the neoliberalism of the Tories and the Sharia law of the Islamic fundamentalists.
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"With support for independence growing, the Tories are holding democracy in contempt by opposing a fresh vote."
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Lamb is skeptical; The Sun's working-class readership is not exactly a natural fit for the Tories.
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Senior Tories hope that the next phase of the contest will not expose too many internal divisions.
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The Tories may try to throw out May in favor of a hard-liner like Boris Johnson.
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Usually this would be bad for Labour, which is traditionally seen as being softer than the Tories.
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The Tories have already promised the NHS another £20bn ($26bn) per year in real terms by 2024.
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"Labour is not showing much signs of being a credible contender to the Tories," Professor Curtice said.
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The Tories operate from a broom cupboard of an office, smaller even than the Brexit Party's headquarters.
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Go deeper: Corbyn accuses Tories of putting NHS "up for sale" in post-Brexit U.S. trade deal
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"Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats&apos interim leader, told Business Insider: "The Tories are crashing our economy.
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Sterling nudged up to $1.2926 as more polls showed the Tories well ahead in the election race.
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It is a fight the Tories are winning, according to a poll for The Economist by Survation.
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Thus, when the Tories ousted Thatcher and replaced her with John Major, they unwittingly made Thatcherism possible.
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By way of damage control, the Tories sent Health Secretary Matt Hancock to visit the Leeds hospital.
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It was also tactically astute, as it enabled Mr Johnson to unite Leave voters behind the Tories.
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Economic models vary on the impact of Labour's statism and the Tories' intention to "get Brexit done".
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As a result, they have harbored fierce resentment against upper class Tories from down south -- like Johnson.
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Her Conservative Party (also called the "Tories") got the most votes and the most seats in Parliament.
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But do we ever expect the Tories to do anything other than making the worst possible decisions?
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Parliamentary constituencies that overwhelmingly voted Leave in last year's referendum largely ditched UKIP candidates in favour of Tories.
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An average of polls showed the Tories up a healthy 8.3 percentage points in the national vote share.
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The Tories remain the biggest party, but their leader is a busted flush and has no obvious successor.
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The Tories need policies for the frustrated middle class, particularly building new homes, including on the green belt.
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Some hope that the Tories will embrace a more expansionary fiscal policy, which could pep up economic growth.
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This is because Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Greens and SNP have ruled out working in with the Tories.
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Labour tore itself apart in the Thatcher era and the Tories did the same during the Blair years.
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Looking only at the more urban mayoral elections, he finds almost no swing to the Tories since 2015.
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On the eve of the election, the Tories' edge over Labour has shrunk to a mere six points.
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His Tories won 258 seats at the general election in December 1923, the Liberals 158 and Labour 191.
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More importantly for the Tories, they might just have found their "under the bus" replacement for party leader.
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Plenty of issues are emerging, with the agenda often, perhaps surprisingly, being set by Labour, not the Tories.
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The Tories' lead among working class "C2DE" voters is almost as great as among rich ABC1s (see chart).
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The Tories worried about overriding the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, which requires a two-thirds majority of MPs.
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Support for the Tories is strong among virtually all demographic groups save the youngest voters, aged 18-24.
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However, voters are still punishing the Lib Dems for sharing power with the Tories between 2010 and 2015.
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The Tories made striking gains in Scotland, including in such previously hostile territory as east Glasgow and Renfrewshire.
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Although the elderly have long leant Conservative, in recent years their support for the Tories has become entrenched.
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The document clearly states that the Tories will not increase national insurance contributions (NICs), the tax in question.
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Not a ringing endorsement, but on a terrible night for the Tories at least she has hung on.
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He regained the Twickenham seat that he lost in 28, mopping up 2000,22 votes to the Tories' 2500,201.54.
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For all their divisions, Tories are united in their determination to keep Mr Corbyn out of Downing Street.
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It may even be in Labour's interests to let the Tories drive Britain over the no-deal cliff.
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Mrs May has no more chance of leading the Tories into the next election than Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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After calling the 2017 election she frittered away a 20-point lead and cost the Tories their majority.
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Labour led the Tories by nearly 50 points among 18- to 24-year-olds, according to the study.
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When the Tories won power in 1710, they negotiated an end to the War for the Spanish Succession.
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Some pinstriped Tories boast that Brexit Britain will be a free-market, low-regulation Singapore of the north.
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This time, Labour and the Tories have ended up on the same side of a brewing culture war.
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Upstart parties on both the Leave and Remain sides are tugging Labour and the Tories towards the extremes.
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In the local elections it did badly where it will be vulnerable to the Tories on June 8th.
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The second was a revolt by Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tories' leader, and David Mundell, the Scottish secretary.
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That is something that the Tories (whose leader, Theresa May, is the Prime Minister) have also been contemplating.
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The Tories are in turmoil not just because they are divided, but because the various candidates are inadequate.
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Many MPs expect the Tories to do badly in local elections in May, especially in anti-Brexit London.
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"The Tories simply aren't allowing the police to protect the public," Labour's home affairs spokeswoman Diane Abbott said.
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I'm a little bit sad that he's leaving, because he's the best option when it comes to Tories.
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What opposition there is will come from the Tories' eccentric fringes and from the undemocratic House of Lords.
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"The Tories (Conservatives) are overtly split and that is never a good look," ICM director Martin Boon said.
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Tories are steadily whittling the U.K. welfare state down to nothing, bleeding the poor while bloating the rich.
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Interestingly, UKIP voters, who many cast as disaffected tories, were expected to mainly return to the Conservative Party.
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But women aged over 55 (a much bigger group) backed the Tories over Labour, by 45% to 27%.
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But when the Tories won a small overall majority in May 75, he found himself on the spot.
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Mr. Johnson and his Conservatives need to appeal to working-class voters, who have traditionally spurned the Tories.
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Tories craned their necks in premature devotion towards a spick-and-span Theresa May, Mr Cameron's spry successor.
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But most pollsters reckon it draws at least twice as many votes from the Tories as from Labour.
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The Tories backed off, but the damage was done, and British voters made them pay at the polls.
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The Tories go into this election facing big losses in Scotland and the Remain-voting south of England.
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Its model assumed that 70% of the parties backers would switch to the Tories and 30% to Labour.
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Farage also said last week his party will not contest the seats Tories won in the 2017 election.
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At the announcement, the Tories jumped up and erupted into applause, but it was hardly a real success.
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We have not passed a steady drumbeat of pragmatic reforms the way the Whigs and the Tories did.
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Public displays of unity won't change the fact that Labour is just as split as the Tories are.
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In 1995-97 she left the Tories to work for James Goldsmith's Referendum Party as chief press officer.
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Yet the Tories are enjoying a Boris bounce in opinion polls—although recent surveys have been unusually variable.
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It seemed a joyless victory, which was only ever, at its root, about keeping the Tories in power.
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Survation, a rival outfit, gives the Tories a lead of just three points, within the margin of error.
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Nor is it certain that the Tories' spending plans, hardly extensive, will survive any economic impacts from Brexit.
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Nor is it certain that the Tories' spending plans, hardly extensive, will survive any economic impacts from Brexit.
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His half-hour-long program is popular among older viewers, many of whom naturally vote for the Tories.
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But for all his enthusiasm the most important battle across the country is between Labour and the Tories.
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Yet the twin tailwinds of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn will not always be there to help the Tories.
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But the Tories' triumph also shows something else: that a profound realignment in British politics has taken place.
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With most of the seats counted, the Tories were set to have a majority of well over 21.
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Meanwhile, in a move that has absolutely no horrifying historical precedents, the Tories promise to "tackle" Gypsy camps.
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David Cameron, who had led the Tories to their 2202 win, resigned as prime minister in the aftermath.
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The Tories' once-huge polling lead has eroded to a startling extent since the beginning of the campaign.
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It even proposes a "right to food", perhaps to match the Tories' promise to fill the nation's potholes.
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These eternal schoolboys whose "weight is out of all proportion" to their numbers are certainly overrepresented among Tories.
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But her influence was lasting: After Thatcher, the Euroskeptic wing of the Tories has grown in strength considerably.
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The dominant parties in Westminster, the Tories and Labour, have a grand total of two of Scotland's 53 MPs.
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Alone the Tories (on 316) are seven seats short of a working majority, as 323 MPs could oppose them.
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This would be a big disappointment for Theresa May, the prime minister; in 2015 the Tories won 330 seats.
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In the event the Tories did as badly in Wales as they did in England, if not more so.
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As we went to press the Tories looked as if they could fall just short of an overall majority.
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It is not fielding a candidate in Ealing, to give her the best chance of fending off the Tories.
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Yet the Tories have gambled, choosing a populist leader who is nobody's idea of a safe pair of hands.
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Tories however have a habit of rejecting frontrunners so the former London mayor still has several hurdles to overcome.
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Plenty of journalists and several politicians, including fellow Tories, wondered how a sitting MP could run a newspaper impartially.
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Yet some Tories acknowledge that Labour's failings provide lessons for the Conservatives on tackling prejudice in their own ranks.
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Tories at this week's conference might have contemplated the scene outside, as swathes of central Birmingham are being demolished.
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At UKIP's conference last month in Bournemouth, speaker after speaker cheered that Theresa May's Tories were adopting UKIP policies.
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Yet it will resonate with the public and may propel the Tories to a landslide at the next election.
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Should Mr Corbyn surge on this metric on election day, that will provide fresh cause for Tories to panic.
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The Tories won the battle, and James became the Stuart King James II. Both terms were originally used pejoratively.
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In the election last year, Labour and the Tories won 82% of the vote, their highest share since 1970.
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And soft Tories may prefer Norway or even a second referendum to anything that Mrs May puts before them.
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The Tories had won the new metro mayoralties for the West of England and, more surprisingly, for Tees Valley.
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Health care is one of the few policy areas where the public still trusts Labour more than the Tories.
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The competition between Labour and the Tories over minimum-wage levels ignores a better way to help the poor.
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The Tories were never in danger of losing a seat they won with a majority of 24,115 last year.
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The Tories, by contrast, promise mere tinkering around the edges—grammar schools, a "proper industrial strategy" and the like.
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Leading Tories were quick to express their admiration for Mrs May—particularly for her determination and sense of duty.
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Many hardline Tories would follow the DUP on the basis that they cannot be more royalist than the king.
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And booting out the Tories would mean electing an opposition that has been captured by a neo-Marxist clique.
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"The Tories have no mandate to pursue the hardest of hard Brexits," Mackay said in a statement on Sunday.
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Sam Gyimah, one of its few black MPs, urged Tories to concentrate on values, such as enterprise and freedom.
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But this time the Tories need to make sure they subject all candidates to the most gruelling examination possible.
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Disaffected Labour voters "hate the Tories far, far more than they might distrust Corbyn," says one former Labour staffer.
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Meanwhile, in the West Midlands, the Tories made advances in the suburbs and towns that tend to swing elections.
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The combined vote-share of Labour and the Tories may fall to its lowest since the second world war.
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But whereas voting intention is tricky to measure, other metrics are clearer—and they are moving against the Tories.
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Social care for the elderly, the Tories' main issue during the election in June, received no mention at all.
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That will be of little comfort to Mr Corbyn, however, as the Tories still enjoy a 16-point lead.
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" He added, "This might be the right decision for the Tories, but it's the wrong decision for the country.
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Less than a decade later, Roy Jenkins split from the party, leaving the Tories in power for 18 years.
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But the Tories have since come to own not just austerity but the very system that created the crisis.
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Even before these leading Tories had come out, opinion polls suggested the outcome of the referendum would be close.
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Europe is the issue that has divided the Tories more bitterly than any other over the past 50 years.
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"It feels like it's just about squabbling Tories," said Dan Vevers, a 26-year-old student at Stirling's university.
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"There was this race between the Tories and Labour to build more housing as quickly as possible," says Grindrod.
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Miller said that her intention was to "narrow (a) Conservative victory," as she could not see the Tories losing.
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When I was a young man the dominant theme was pretty social democratic (even the Tories had accepted it).
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In practice, as is often forgotten, the splinter took more votes from the Tories than it did from Labour.
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Even in 2005, after the Iraq war, Labour secured a solid win over the Tories (and 44% in Nuneaton).
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In both 123 and 2015 the Tories said they would cut annual net immigration to the tens of thousands.
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Here are a bunch of largely free-market Tories arguing that governments should decide which workers companies should employ.
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Second, there are several parts of the country where the Tories are likely to lose rather than gain seats.
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Activists cheered as she pledged the Tories would take their "rightful place" as the party of law and order.
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Many Tories blame Mr Bercow for obstructing Brexit, but the real culprit was their lack of a reliable majority.
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In the last election, they had Labor and Conservatives tied, only to find that the Tories won by 85033.
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Jeremy Corbyn, the embattled Labour leader, says the Tories cannot be trusted with any negotiations with the European Union.
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How does he see Britain outside Europe -- other than as a convenient vehicle to remove the Tories from power?
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Even worse for May's optics, Rudd held it down for the Tories even though her father died Monday night.
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The reason this is all happening is that the Tories want to break up and sell off the NHS.
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May's Tories lost 12 seats in Parliament, when just two months ago they reasonably hoped to gain nearly 100.
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"Their strategy has been to have a clean-hands Brexit, the Tories will mess it all up," she said.
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The Tories in London argued that austerity was the responsible solution to balance public accounts and encourage future growth.
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Politics is usually sharply divided in the county, with Labour on the left and the Tories on the right.
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" The Tories, on Sunday, dismissed the Labour proposal as "a weak attempt to kick the can down the road.
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But under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Labour whittled away the Tories' lead among women until it barely existed.
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Su renuncia es, por tanto, una ruptura familiar y también un evento simbólico de la fractura entre los tories.
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The Conservatives, or Tories, had already copied Labour's plans from the 2015 general election to cap energy costs. Mrs.
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Although the Tories used to vie for control of the city, the party lost its grip in the 1970s.
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This is an arrogant fallacy, of course: Everyone who worked to defeat the Tories will still be around tomorrow.
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A December election is testing the commitment of SNP canvassers in Gordon, which the Tories also took last time.
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May's Tories finished fifth, with just 9 percent of the vote, one the worst performances in their long history.
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The Guardian, a stalwart of the left-wing media (and hence no friend of the ruling Tories) headlined its morning edition with "May suffers historic defeat as Tories turn against her," with the paper noting that Tory ministers and MPs appeared split on whether to continue backing their leader and prime minister.
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After promising more fiscal austerity in the run-up to the general election in 2015, the Tories won a majority.
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They've got ten seats in Parliament — enough to swing a majority in a vote to the Tories — and despise Corbyn.
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Polls suggest UKIP will come first in the 2030 election, narrowly followed by the Tories and, just behind them, OTM!.
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If the Tories want to shake off the "nasty party" image for good, they should avoid making the same mistake.
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Tories elected Mr Johnson as their leader not because he dutifully climbed the ranks but because of his star power.
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It is a pattern repeated across the country: UKIP is giving the Tories votes and the Lib Dems are stalling.
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Mrs May plans to leave the EU's single market, once cherished by Tories as one of Margaret Thatcher's greatest achievements.
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UKIP's collapse could also hand the Tories a majority in Wales for the first time in more than a century.
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It was carried by the five Tories on the committee and one Scottish Nationalist, but opposed by the Labour members.
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And some Tories fret that the Lib Dems could cost the party support in EU-friendly parts of the country.
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Apart from the punchy Ruth Davidson, leader of the rising but still marginal Scottish Tories, she faces little external opposition.
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Whether Labour and the Tories survive the earthquake will depend on how well they can adjust to the shifting ground.
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Yet other Tories remain fearful of the consequences of crashing out of the European Union without a deal in October.
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But pro-EU Tories say that, with solid Labour support, there is a clear Commons majority for a customs union.
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Thus, however the Tories respond to the Brexit Party's success, a Labour victory in a future election seems more likely.
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Among many Brexiteers and Tories in Britain a "fair Brexit" means Britain staying in the Single Market without free movement.
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BRITISH HEADLINES are dominated by the contest to become the next Conservative prime minister, and the Tories' divisions over Brexit.
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In his conference speech Mr Johnson reminded the Tories of Winston Churchill's great line about giving the lion its roar.
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Labour need win only seven seats from the Tories to give Mr Corbyn the chance to form a ruling coalition.
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An assumption that the Tories would be the sole beneficiaries of UKIP's implosion proved wrong in last year's general election.
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The Tories' lead on economic confidence has also fallen by half, from 18 points to nine, according to Ipsos-MORI.
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Labour aims to spend £1m ($1.3m) on it in this year's election, having been outspent by the Tories last time.
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But it goes down well with liberal-minded Remainers who are desperately looking for an excuse to dump the Tories.
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From a political perspective, the Tories' unwillingness to boost the supply of homes for people to buy seems increasingly imprudent.
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Having survived a confidence vote among Tories at the end of last year, she cannot be challenged again until December.
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Young Tories (an admittedly limited group) embrace him with the same cooing enthusiasm that young Labourites have for Jeremy Corbyn.
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A growing number of Tories believe that a new leader with a new mandate could break the logjam (see article).
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The Tories are still right to suspect that another leader might make a better job of Brexit than Mrs May.
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The reason is that, so long as Mr Corbyn remains leader, Labour seems sure to go on trailing the Tories.
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It encompasses Republicans and Democrats, New Labourites and Tories, a Socialist like Francois Hollande and a conservative like Nicolas Sarkozy.
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There's been far worse Tories than him, but I believe that he did some really good stuff for the country.
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"May stares into the abyss," said The Times' Saturday edition while the Daily Mail led with "Tories Turn On Theresa".
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But the vote was actually more fragmented—in some seats, both Labour and Tories benefited equally from former UKIP voters.
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The Tories also plan to reduce the small business corporate income tax rate to 220% from 240.7%, beginning on Jan.
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Both Swinson and Davey have ruled out forming a Coalition with both the Tories or Labour in their current state.
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The Tories precipitated the Brexit vote for internal reasons and in doing so split their members and decapitated their leadership.
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Brexiteers demanded that he go further by standing down in Leave-voting Labour marginals which the Tories need to win.
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The American "shy Tories" are regular mainstream voters unwilling to be branded racists due to their support of smaller government.
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Even Tories in the area know it — for Boris, every move, every step has been a calculation to Number 10.
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At least 140 of the 330 Tories in the House of Commons, including six cabinet ministers, favor leaving the bloc.
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If there were no other reason for the Tories to go, their self-interested Brexit bungling would be reason enough.
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Tories comfort themselves with the fact that, in spite of their shocking week, they remain well ahead in the polls.
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But, given the dire state of the Tories in the polls, few Conservative lawmakers will want to face the voters.
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But the Tories are hoping that years of straitened spending have lowered expectations when it comes to funding health care.
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I see little sign that senior Tories have grasped how radically the rules of the game are changing around them.
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Only worse than her voting record is the fact that the Tories are able to utilize her to great effect.
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So while the Tories have purged dissenting MPs and coalesced around Brexit, Labour radiates ambivalence on the election's central question.
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In terms of winning seats in England for themselves, the Lib Dems pose a serious threat only to the Tories.
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If the swing is uniform, the Tories will lose out most, with perhaps 25 seats going from blue to yellow.
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Churchill earned distrust and enmity from the Tories as he actually switched parties and then switched back, depending upon circumstances.
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The poll, taken at the start of the campaign, gave Labour a small lead of 42% to the Tories' 37%.
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One Labour stronghold after another fell to the Tories, who are set to win a majority of around 80 seats.
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This early analysis suggests that Labour was simply unprepared to fight the battle on the terms the Tories were waging.
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This week the Muslim Council of Britain issued a statement accusing the Tories of allowing Islamophobia to "fester in society".
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A silent pact between the SNP and the Tories to crush it is not the only reason for its travails.
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In the past, Republicans typically saw center-right parties, like the British Tories or French Republicans, as their international peers.
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In 2013, Cameron gave a speech promising to hold just such a referendum if the Tories won Britain's 2015 election.
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It's cronyism, pure and simple and proof the Tories will always put their own interests before those of the country.
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At the Tories' annual conference in Birmingham October 2, May said her government would begin negotiating Britain's exit next March.
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The best case for the Tories today is a wafer-thin majority under a prime minister whose authority may never recover.
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As the Tories ponder a new leader to replace the tragic Mrs May, that liberal future is once more in play.
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Some Tories became Euroskeptics in a belated pledge of loyalty to her, others because they feared losing their seats to UKIP.
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And as Tories south of the border reflect on the future of their party they will look to Ms Davidson's achievements.
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Tories involved in the Brentford and Isleworth campaign have spoken to The Economist to describe how it went so badly wrong.
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By our seat-by-seat analysis, Brexit was responsible for about half of the national swing from the Tories to Labour.
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The DUP may now focus on its relationship with the Tories, rather than contemplating the compromises necessary for a devolution breakthrough.
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Have you seen that photo of Theresa May and her fellow Tories in front of the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream?
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The Tories' position is complicated by the fact that Boris Johnson is conducting a leadership bid under cover of "chucking Chequers".
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If the Tories could win their loyalty, more seats like Mr Shelbrooke's middle-class Yorkshire constituency might be up for grabs.
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Ambitious Tories, from Mr Cameron to prospective parliamentary candidates, have long had to convince the party of their Eurosceptic bona fides.
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And everyone is offering free school meals of some sort: lunch from Labour and the Lib Dems, breakfast from the Tories.
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In the days after the 2010 election, the Tories and Labour were talking to the Liberal Democrats simultaneously for a time.
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The Tories launched their manifesto in Halifax, a Yorkshire town with a long history as a bastion of the Labour Party.
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But rather than his fairy tale, the polls tell a sorry tale for Labour, showing it lagging far behind the Tories.
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According to YouGov's analysis, any constituency where Labour has a lead of less than 14% over the Tories would turn blue.
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Even many Tories who, unlike Mr Cameron, campaigned for Brexit stressed regaining sovereignty, not reducing the numbers coming into the country.
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Can second- and third-generation Labour voters, who have a congenital dislike for the Tories, be persuaded to vote for UKIP?
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The Tories are polling above 40%, and the latest ICM survey gives them a near-record 18-point lead over Labour.
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Yet Britons are fed up with the Tories' austere fiscal policy, as the large vote for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party suggested.
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It's the Tories the pollsters will be keeping their eyes on in the coming months, not the newest generation of voters.
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The Tories are in the unusual position of being unable to tell voters who their candidate will work under in Westminster.
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Moreover, when it comes to squeezing the rich there is less to separate the two main parties than the Tories admit.
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She squandered her patronage by handing knighthoods to the unbiddable (like Sir John Redwood) while failing to promote talented younger Tories.
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Sir Ivan Rogers, a former ambassador to the EU, likens the Tories to the Bourbons, who learnt nothing and forgot nothing.
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The Whigs are mostly young and urban—David Cameron's Notting Hill set writ large—while the Tories are older and rural.
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Some 45% of people who voted for the UK Independence Party in 2015 backed the Tories in 2017, according to YouGov.
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The Tories went to war over the most important problem facing the country—one that is largely of their own making.
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She had a knack for working across political divides, both within the Labour Party and across the aisle with the Tories.
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Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader in Westminster, calls this an absolute red line, as he says it is for most Tories.
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The DUP could pose as a party that is going down fighting, while keeping its deal with the Tories in place.
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Today, both Labour and the Tories recruit their MPs from think-tanks and ministers keep up their guard at all times.
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Labour still lags behind the Tories in voters' perception of economic competence, notes Ben Page of Ipsos-MORI, a polling company.
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Yet voters who might be tempted back to the Tories by softer, more liberal policies also tend to be keen Remainers.
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And from a political perspective, the Tories' unwillingness to boost the supply of homes for people to buy seems increasingly imprudent.
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Many Britons despair that they face a choice between Brexit and chaos under the Tories and socialism and chaos under Labour.
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He called for dialogue with Russia and then veered into an attack on the Tories for taking money from Russian billionaires.
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Mr Clarke's breakthrough was offset by the Tories' loss to Labour of Stockton South, a seat they had held since 2010.
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We have free public healthcare system here that we like, and the Tories are very intent on getting rid of it.
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And OK, Cameron can't bind his successors, but it looks like the Tories will be in power for quite a while.
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Right now we're seeing the Tories go into overdrive, privatizing schools, shackling the unions, and letting refugees die in the sea.
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Karl: Also, because they didn't vote for the conservatives at the general election, and they're trying to get the Tories out.
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"UKIP voters are likely to go to the Tories, insofar as Brexit is an issue, working to their disadvantage," he said.
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For today the air is thick with insults and lurid claims flying between Tories on opposite sides of the EU debate.
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But the biggest push-back will come from backbench Tories; Labour is on its third shadow education secretary of the summer.
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It's no surprise that the entertainment industry would want the Tories out, since they don't value cultural capital in the slightest.
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Shortly after May announced the election six weeks ago, shock polls suggested the Tories had made major inroads with such voters.
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Two years ago the Tories won the seat for the first time in 109 years, by 27 votes after two recounts.
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The bank also didn't expect that any pound rally would be long-lived, even if the Tories pull off a sweep.
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Worst of all, the Tories did not live up to their promise; Britain did not leave the EU by October 31st.
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That should make life easier still for Mr Sharma, as most Brexit Party backers are expected to switch to the Tories.
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Beseiged on the right by the anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP), the ruling Tories are deeply split on the question.
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And while one can understand why GBP would be lower on the Tories' lack of a majority, this move seems extreme.
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The Tories lost three seats in a May local election in Elmbridge, in Surrey, including one to Liberal Democrat Ashley Tilling.
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The Business Insider / GfK poll shows that the Tories lead Labour by 20 points, with 48% saying they will vote Conservative.
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While the Corbynites see New Labour as sellouts, Rowling and her ilk see them as a better alternative to the Tories.
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When members of the Tories' hard-right European Research Group decided to lean on Home Secretary Sajid Javid, the ban on .
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Under her eight-year leadership, driven by her distinctive energy, forthrightness and wit, the Scottish Tories returned from the electoral dead.
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Labour wants a customs union with Europe as part of a soft Brexit, an idea that's anathema to hard-line Tories.
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The Parliamentary Labour Party, seeing an opportunity with the Tories divided, has decided to gather itself into a circular firing squad.
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The traditional third party, the Liberal Democrats, were hurt badly by being in coalition with the Tories between 2010 and 2015.
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Rebel Tories had called a no-confidence vote, forcing her to plead with her own lawmakers to give her more time.
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The Tories were jubilant as their candidate Trudy Harrison was announced as the winner in the early hours of Friday morning.
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Back in the Revolution, most of Long Island was Tories, but this town seceded nine months before the Declaration of Independence.
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But about 15 percent are 65 or older, a population that votes in higher numbers and tends to favor the Tories.
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Recent polls put the Tories in a broad four-way split between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the new Brexit party.
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Fourteen candidates have joined the race, though, and the Tories are sifting through them to choose a leader on May 1503.
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The Tories got into trouble with the Electoral Commission in 2017 because they paid to bus in supporters to target constituencies.
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And yet, even with that simple, straightforward, popular-enough proposition, Johnson's Tories have not been able to put the election away.
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Unless Prime Minister Theresa May pushes back with resolve, the consequences for Tories and for the United Kingdom can be dire.
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Blyth Valley, an ex-mining community in the north-east where Tories have for generations been the enemy, fell before midnight.
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Even at the last election, in 2017, working-class voters were almost as likely as professional ones to back the Tories.
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Since he was one of the few Tories to have clung on to their seats, his views may carry some weight.
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The poll suggests the Tories will win 339 seats, Labour 231, the Scottish National party 41, and the Liberal Democrats 15.
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Without the gains the Tories made in Scotland in 2017, Theresa May would not have been able to form a government.
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The SNP wants to scoop up remaining left-wing voters by crushing Labour; the Tories want to corner the unionist vote.
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It remains split, and though some Tories and the opposition united to pass this amendment, that alliance is shaky at best.
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Theresa May is embarking on a project to completely destroy the Labour Party and keep the Tories in government for decades.
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In January 250, Cameron gave a speech promising to hold just such a referendum if the Tories won Britain's 250 election.
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The Tories also benefited because they have in Ms Davidson a leader who, unlike Mrs May, comes across as a human being.
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Mrs May has led the Tories in a more statist, illiberal direction, with heavier regulations on firms and strict limits on immigration.
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The Tories still have fewer minority MPs than Labour (17 compared with 23 in the 2015 intake) but the party is changing.
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It has nearly 100 MPs, defectors from Labour and the Liberal Democrats—plus a few Tories, whose defection has triggered an election.
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His government discreetly mooted the idea of an electoral pact between the Tories, the moderate Ulster Unionists and the harder-line DUP.
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The Tories, who came to power in 2010 on a promise to balance the fiscal books, have long been tough on benefits.
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Peter Rubin: I'm a card-carrying member of the Tormund Tories, Andrea, but his not dying felt like a total cop-out.
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So if they've underestimated the Tories by 12 seats, which is possible, the country may be able to avoid a hung Parliament.
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The chart below, from the poll aggregator Britain Elects, shows that May's Tories, in blue, have a massive and seemingly growing lead.
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Mrs Thornberry resigned and her party, now on 43 seats, became the fifth-largest in the Commons after the Tories, UKIP, OTM!
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He backed Remain this time to preserve shadow cabinet unity, though he also talked of preserving EU employment rights from rapacious Tories.
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A different constituency-level model by Chris Hanretty of the University of East Anglia projects a much brighter outcome for the Tories.
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According to The Economist's poll tracker, Labour has reduced the Tories' lead among over-65s by 8 points, from 50 to 255.
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It was that it revealed the clash of interests between the people the Tories already represent and those they want to convert.
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Labour's most controversial policy was a plan to cap energy prices, denounced as "Marxist" by the Tories, who went on to win.
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The Tories mainly coalesced under the leadership of William Pitt the Younger, prime minister from 1783-1801, and again from 1804-06.
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The survey, carried out by YouGov for the Times, suggests that the Tories' lead over Labour has narrowed to only five points.
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It follows several polls that had shown the Tories' lead dropping to around the ten-point mark, even before the U-turn.
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Mr McDonnell faced grumbles from Labour MPs (including those usually well to the right of him) for supporting the Tories' tax break.
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For instance, Labour won Brentford and Isleworth off the Tories at the last election in 2015 with a majority of just 465.
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The Tories now have a very similar policy For rolling coverage of the election campaign, check out our new British politics blog
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As well as applying to the Tories' traditionally strong areas of security and the economy, this is clearly the case with Brexit.
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Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Oxford, reckons the Tories are in a good position when it comes to those sorts.
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The idea would be that a veteran such as the Tories' Ken Clarke or Labour's Margaret Beckett might be its nominal leader.
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Some senior Tories worry that the Lib Dems will deprive them of victory in many parts of London and the south-west.
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If true, that could swing more than two dozen seats in the Tories' favour, mainly in the north and midlands (see chart).
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The most prominent unionist is Ruth Davidson, under whose leadership the Tories became the main opposition in the Scottish Parliament last year.
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Opposition from Labour and Tories whose seats would be at risk means that the proposed changes are unlikely to be implemented soon.
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In fact, if conservatives had had their way, there wouldn't even be a United States: The Tories vigorously opposed breaking from Britain.
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Even then, Labour and the Tories still had 65% of the vote in the election—25 percentage points higher than today's share.
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His argument was that trying to force it through could lead to a general election in which the Tories would be annihilated.
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Since 2010 faith groups have benefited from the Tories' "free schools" programme, which lets a wide variety of organisations set them up.
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"We just know Labour is red, Tories are blue, and Liberal Democrats are yellow," as my 14-year-old sister put it.
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The Lib Dems, who were in government with the Tories only four years ago, putter along at barely 10% in the polls.
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She reinforced the sense that the Tories care more about presentation than problem-solving by changing the name of two Whitehall departments.
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She should instead have used her powers of patronage to remake the upper echelons of her party by promoting talented younger Tories.
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Anne personally leaned toward supporting the Tories, but her friend Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, tried to cajole her to support Whig policies.
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The Tories are trying to use a combination of Brexit and hostility to Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left views to attract patriotic voters.
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The Tories and Labour face competition from a crowd of little parties, some established, others brand new, motivated by Europhobia or -philia.
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It is now one of Britain's tightest constituencies, a three-way marginal between Labour, the Tories and the SNP, which holds it.
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Ipsos MORI, a pollster, estimates that the Tories' share of the minority vote fell from 23% in 2015 to 19% this summer.
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But the town's 70:30 vote for Leave was enough to persuade it to switch to the Brexit-backing Tories in 2017.
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But judging by the response to this draft, Mr Corbyn looks no more likely to defeat Theresa May's Tories on June 8th.
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Mr Crosby relied on robotic messages ("Strong and stable") and relentless micro-targeting (the Tories delivered 4,000 different messages to Facebook users).
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Tories furious about her decision to call an election that lost seats might rebel and vote her out of the party leadership.
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Nick Boles, who sponsored Common Market 2.0, accused fellow Tories of refusing to compromise and announced his resignation from the party whip.
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Topics range from bins to Brexit via anti-Semitism, housing and austerity, creating problems and opportunities for Labour and the Tories alike.
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In January 2013, Cameron formally committed to holding a Brexit referendum if the Tories won a full majority in the 2015 elections.
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After years of being taunted by the Tories for the spendthrift antics of loony-left councils, it is payback time for Labour.
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"The way the Tories (Conservatives) are handling Brexit tells you a lot about their competence - or should I say incompetence," Starmer said.
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The resulting governments have distanced themselves from English Labour and the Tories alike, without coming up with many innovations of their own.
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May's Tories, in contrast, went into this election with divided views over a hard versus a soft Brexit, and they remain divided.
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HAMMOND TO TELL CABINET TUESDAY TORIES MAY HAVE TO CONSIDER REFERENDUM SINCE NEITHER PARTY, COUNTRY COULD AFFORD ELECTION - THE TIMES' POLITICAL EDITOR
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There's no telling how many would be left if the Tories get another term to give the industry another five-year hammering.
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"I think the Tories (Conservatives) really have some big questions to answer about the conduct of some of their candidates," she said.
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Aficionados may recall that polls for the United Kingdom predicted a tie, when in fact the Tories won by 6900 percentage points.
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Our poll on November 7th-9th found the Tories way out in front, with fully half the vote--nearly double Labour's share.
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There is speculation that the Lib Dems will soon fire warning shots to the Tories by unveiling up to three new MPs.
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Party sources say the the number of seats they can take from the Tories at the next election is in double figures.
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Mr. Johnson likened the proposal to "polishing a turd" and is seen as a potential successor should the Tories dump Mrs. May.
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With an election looming, and the Labour opposition captured by an equally radical hard-left, the Tories' sinister metamorphosis is terrible news.
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"The Tories are the British equivalent to Trump," said Melissa Merlan, as she marched to Whitehall with her 5-year-old daughter.
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If this seems an odd way to produce a new prime minister, it is, by historical standards, pretty open for the Tories.
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The first is that the Tories and DUP can form a formal coalition, in which they would share control over the government.
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After more than two decades attending these events, I have rarely seen the Tories so intellectually exhausted and drained of fighting spirit.
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Every single person on our team wanted to beat the Tories, but we never discussed where exactly on the left we stood.
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That a higher proportion of ethnic-minority voters voted for Brexit than for the Tories in 2017 only adds to her appeal.
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Sin embargo, el auncio de que Jo Johnsson dimitirá evidencia el desaliento de los tories moderados ante las tácticas de Boris Johnson.
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The British working class, concentrated in the Midlands and the North, abandoned Labour and Corbyn's socialism for the Tories and Johnson's nationalism.
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Today, Johnson has renegotiated Brexit, the Tories have their largest majority since 1987, and Labour has sustained its worst defeat since 1935.
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However, the Lib Dems could still hurt Labour, by taking votes from the left-wing party and letting the Tories sneak through.
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The Tories' new prospectus is calculated to take advantage of a long-term shift in voters' behaviour which predates the Brexit referendum.
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It whips up enthusiasm by demonising opponents (the stinking rich, the heartless Tories) and organising supporters into euphoria- or rage-fuelled rallies.
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May's defense like gallant knights are fellow Tories, among them many who have spent the last few months plotting to remove her.
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And it was well distributed between the major parties, with the Tories mobilising the forces of property and Labour the workers and intellectuals.
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As we went to press, the Tories were losing seats in London and other urban areas, especially where voters opposed Brexit last June.
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Now the Welsh Political Barometer, an opinion poll, puts the Tories on 40% and on course to win 21 seats to Labour's 15.
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Excluding Scotland, there is a strong correlation between swings from the Tories to Labour and the vote in the EU referendum (see chart).
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As this turmoil makes painfully clear, the Tories are fractured, so finding a replacement who would have majority support is its own challenge.
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Chris Davies, who won the last election, in 2017, for the Tories with a majority of 8,000, spends much of his time apologising.
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Unlike the Tories, Labour will insist on a Brexit that works not just for City interests but in the interests of us all.
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In response, hardline, anti-European Tories met Thursday night to hammer out a tactical response to what some perceive as a Brexit betrayal.
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Tories mock him as a professional protester who wants to take Britain back to the era of three-day weeks and wildcat strikes.
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The other alternative is something called a minority government, where the Tories maintain control but don't have enough votes to pass major legislation.
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If she cannot then UKIP will probably come first and be invited by King William to form a government, supported by the Tories.
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Labour says it is offering a radical alternative, but the distributional impact of its tax-and-benefits policy is similar to the Tories'.
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A slimmer majority would embolden Tories who disagree with her brand of Conservatism—and there are plenty of them—to grumble more loudly.
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The next election will depend on whether voters find Labour's full-fat politics more tempting than the Tories' offering of Corbynism without calories.
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The Ealing Central and Acton Tories have selected a local councillor, Joy Morrisey, who used to work for the former MP Angie Bray.
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The key swing seat of Vale of Clwyd, won by the Tories in 2015 by just 237 votes, has been regained by Labour.
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Like the Tories, the Labour Party took a pounding in the recent European elections; it is also beset by allegations of anti-Semitism.
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The fear among senior Tories is that Mrs May's campaign to sell her deal will be a repeat of the 2017 general election.
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During the general election of 2015, 100,000 people signed up as volunteers, which helped the Tories to win an unexpected majority, he argues.
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Some Tories are itching to topple Mrs May; if they did, her replacement might turn out to be even harder to deal with.
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All Britain's main political parties have suffered a decline in membership in recent decades, but none more so than the Tories (see chart).
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He estimates that, at the moment, a percentage-point increase in support for the Tories would yield a change of 20-25 seats.
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The charge of a "coalition of chaos", lobbed by the Tories at Labour was sent squarely back towards the prime minister's squabbling cabinet.
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"It's hard to overstate what a disaster that would be for the Conservative Party or 'Tories,'" TIME's Mark Leftly wrote late last month.
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The two major parties are dicing with disaster, the Tories by tying their fate to Brexit and the Labour Party by embracing Corbynism.
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At the moment the Tories are leaving the big thinking on economics to Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left leader of the Labour Party.
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Fed up, a group of local Tories contacted a Labour councillor, Emma Dent Coad, and said they would back her if she ran.
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Now opponents of independence are coming together, in a few places to the benefit of the Lib Dems, but mostly around the Tories.
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Many Labour MPs want a second referendum on whatever Brexit deal is agreed; Mrs May, and most Tories, are firmly opposed to this.
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Several Tories have openly floated the idea of replacing her as prime minister, preferably with a more fervent believer in Brexit (see article).
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One can imagine the Tories winning a majority of 40 seats or so, and the whole exercise being judged something of a failure.
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With its grassroots withering, the Tories have relied on highly paid advisers such as Lynton Crosby, an Australian, and Jim Messina, an American.
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The Tories have taken a harsh anti-immigration position, calling for no more than 250,213 people to be admitted to Britain per year.
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He invited businesses worried about Brexit to ditch the Tories and switch to his own truly "free market, free-trade, pro-business" party.
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The Tories had held precisely such an event before the election, but Iain Duncan Smith, their new leader, reckoned it worth another shot.
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Then, the argument within the Tories was between Eurosceptics and those, such as the then-chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, who were fiercely pro-European.
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I don't have any reason to think Oliver Wood was either evil or stupid, so I guess he'd vote tactically against the Tories.
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Similarly when business leaders pronounce for Remain, their views are dismissed by Tories who normally treat the needs of business as pretty sacrosanct.
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Unfortunately for the Tories, her hard line drove Remain-supporting Conservatives away, and her party lost its majority in the House of Commons.
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But almost no one holds a middling position on Brexit, so both Labour and the Tories are pitching to the extremes (see article).
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The Tories are more split than ever: around 185 of their MPs backed Remain, and they will not welcome a Brexiteer as leader.
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Yet as a noisy Remainer, Mr Bercow upset fellow Tories with his choices of when to allow debates and what amendments to call.
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At that time, the cause of European integration was strongly favored by the Foreign Office, indeed most of the establishment, including many Tories.
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Since the vote for Brexit and the rise of Mrs May last year, relations with the Tories, normally dependable allies, have been strained.
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Before last year's election, some on the left suggested that the Liberal and New Democratic Parties should merge and fight the Tories together.
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Both her and Olney said former Tories in their constituencies were not just repeatedly bringing up Brexit, but climate change and crime too.
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Almost all polls suggested Labour and the Conservatives were level in the final days of campaigning before the Tories won an unexpected majority.
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The Tories are projected to win, but if the 2016 election in the US taught us anything, it's that nothing is a guarantee.
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The Tories have taken a harsh anti-immigration position, calling for no more than 100,000 people to be admitted to Britain per year.
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He's reluctant to back anything that the Tories propose because he calculates that doing so will implicate him in Brexit's inevitable economic damage.
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Many moderate Tories, even those who oppose no-deal, would like to give their new prime minister a chance to prove his mettle.
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Voters barely knew her, and when they had a closer look during the Tories' abysmal election campaign, they didn't like what they saw.
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Polls have closed in the UK general election, and exit polls suggest the Tories will win 368 seats, compared to Labour&aposs 191.
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The plan was welcomed by Tory Brexiteers and, more importantly, by the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, which supports the Tories in Parliament.
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The Tories are using Brexit to win over Labour voters, while Labour is reasserting its identity as the party of the working class.
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In the latest contest, Mr. Goldsmith stood as an independent but was not opposed by the Tories, who did not field a candidate.
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The main polling result is that the Tories are leading Labour by some 22016 points, very much in line with the poll trackers.
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There was a direct relationship between the size of the swing to the Tories and the number of people in blue-collar jobs.
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Victory for Boris Johnson's all-new Tories, why not to expect the Labour Party to move back to the centre quickly [08:50].
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In any case, Nicole Martin, also of Manchester, points out that many Muslims have long perceived the Tories to be prejudiced against them.
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Shortly after Mrs May declared the election Tory journalists debated whether the Tories would have a majority of 100 or 150 or even more.
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As we went to press in the early hours of June 9th, the Tories were on course to lose seats, and perhaps their majority.
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Today both major parties are fielding their second elevens—Labour because of the rise of the far-left and the Tories because of Brexit.
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"Attempts by the Tories to block Scotland's right to choose our own future are undemocratic and unsustainable," Sturgeon said in response to the poll.
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At that point, the polls showed a virtual four-way tie between the Tories, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the newly-formed Brexit Party.
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Tories hope that, in a place where locals cherish generations-old family ties, voters will judge Mr Davies on more than his recent conviction.
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That&aposs what the British Tories said about Jeremy Corbin when he took over the Labour Party, and he almost won the last election.
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Tories crowing this week over Labour disunity on Brexit only have to wait for their party conference next week to reveal more gaping splits.
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The Labour Party is as much an unwieldy alliance as the Tories: this time between the middle-class intelligentsia and the manual working-class.
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Brexit has pushed the sort of red-trousered UK Independence Party (UKIP) supporters who quit the Tories under David Cameron back into the fold.
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In most other post-war elections, Tories won the seat, which was renamed Finchley and Golders Green when its boundaries were redrawn in 1997.
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The Tories' loss of the Brecon by-election on August 313st confirmed that, even under Mr Johnson, they are still vulnerable to Mr Farage.
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The Tories are clearly on the offensive in this election—taking advantage of Mr Corbyn's incompetence to advance their tanks deep into Labour territory.
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An election before Britain exits would keep Nigel Farage's hard-line Brexit Party in play, allowing it to siphon vital votes from the Tories.
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An election before Britain exits would keep Nigel Farage's hard-line Brexit Party in play, allowing it to siphon vital votes from the Tories.
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UKIP will have to challenge the Tories as well as Labour if it is to win more than a handful of seats (see chart).
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With Labour in steep decline under an unpopular leader—Mr Hammond aptly compared the party to a driverless vehicle—the Tories enjoy unusual freedom.
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For despite losing young voters, the Tories did better with the old Labour base of working-class and aspirational voters, in particular the C2s.
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First, speculation that Britain might seek a "softer" Brexit, after an inconclusive election in which the Tories lost their majority, was squashed—for now.
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Before becoming an MP, Mr Hancock was chief of staff to the then-shadow chancellor George Osborne, a leader of the Tories' liberal wing.
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The Tories' Brexit wing, convinced that it had the "will of the people" on its side, kept demanding an ever-purer version of Brexit.
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But there was something of a ritualistic quality to this: most Tories have been desperate to see the back of Mrs May for weeks.
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The Tories took away some of their privileges in 2016, but the non-doms are still handled fairly generously for up to 15 years.
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The Tories prevailed in all three because they won the female vote by a margin wider than the tasselled hem of a flapper's skirt.
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Four parties are polling at around 20%, as Labour and the Tories jostle with the Liberal Democrats and the new Brexit Party (see chart).
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The Tories think that Theresa May's strategy of advancing into culturally conservative working-class areas in the north was a brilliant idea badly executed.
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Off the record, Tories from all sides of the party, including some Brexiteers, were happy to tell journalists that Mr Johnson's time was up.
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In the Tories, Charlie Elphicke and Chris Pincher are under police investigation; Daniel Kawczynski and Dan Poulter are among those subject to disciplinary inquiries.
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But the hope of booting the Tories out of Downing Street is enough to keep them loyal, despite misgivings about, say, his foreign policy.
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Gaining 563 seats and taking control of 11 councils, the Tories romped home at the expense of the opposition Labour Party and Liberal Democrats.
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Now that it has achieved its aim of Brexit the UK Independence Party was almost wiped out, as its supporters switched to the Tories.
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In this month's local elections the Tories won 25% of first-preference votes, up from 13% in 2012; Labour dropped from 20193% to 21%.
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Corbyn's policy platform hasn't stemmed the spread of anti-immigrant populism, and the Tories have made restricting immigration a central part of their agenda.
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He can expect much bashing from the Eurosceptic press and from backbench Tories for watering down what they already saw as pretty thin gruel.
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If the party lend its support to the Tories, it would be despite, not because of, the issue on which this election was held.
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They showed the Tories beating Labour across Wales, which they haven't done since 49.93; they have not won the most seats here since 1851.
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The tactics may not work—Mrs May tried something similar in 2017, and found that working-class northerners were still allergic to the Tories.
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The Leave campaign was always an odd coalition between slightly eccentric back-bench Tories (who were also climate-change sceptics) and UKIP's nativist instincts.
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Labour's leaflets remind wavering voters that it came within 3,000 votes of displacing the Tories last time, whereas the Lib Dems were 22,000 behind.
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In October, 2002, in a blunt speech at the Tories' annual conference, she urged the Party to reform, in order to broaden its appeal.
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Farage has said he does not trust the Tories enough to help by Johnson by standing down Brexit Party candidates in a snap election.
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And the Tories are hardly the only center-right party in Europe trying to coopt nationalism theses to stanch defections by working-class voters.
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The pro-Remain party made over 700 gains in local elections before leap-frogging Labour and the Tories to finish second in European elections.
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"In common parlance, people would call what the Tories (Conservatives) have published today lies, absolute lies," Labour's economic spokesman John McDonnell told BBC Radio.
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The election also highlighted the need for collaboration between the Tories and Brexit Party, compounding the risk of a no-deal Brexit, analysts say.
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Yet he won crucial support by promising to pull the Tories out of a center-right alliance in the European Parliament criticized by euroskeptics.
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In defiance of their persistent opposition to LBGT rights legislation, the Tories have a track record of trumpeting themselves as Macklemore-level queer allies.
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The number of people applying to study nursing in England has decreased by nearly a third since the Tories removed the bursary for trainees.
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If Mr Corbyn wins the next election—which is more likely than most Tories realise—he will be emboldened by the Conservatives' recent behaviour.
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"Only nine Tories are among the more than 100 M.P.s who have publicly backed the idea," Mr. Rahman wrote, referring to members of Parliament.
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In 1931 the Tories joined a national government under the Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, but he was then disowned by his own party.
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The YouGov MRP poll showed the Tories could win 22016 seats (22017 more than they took in 3673) and a vote share of 2367%.
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His main opposition is the Conservative candidate, Meg Powell-Chandler, a former adviser to former Prime Minister David Cameron, and the Tories smell victory.
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The Tories are ahead in the polls and apparently heading for a majority, though the race is tightening and the polls could be wrong.
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Mr. Chong, the son of immigrants from Hong Kong and the Netherlands, could help the Tories appeal to foreign-born Canadians, a significant constituency.
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In the last election, though the Tories outspent Labour online, they badly underperformed, getting half as many Facebook engagements at three times the cost.
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The party has far more members than the Conservatives—perhaps some 540,000 (though the figure is disputed at the margins) to the Tories' 160,000.
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The Tories now hold Leave-voting seats in the north and the Midlands that had voted Labour for the best part of a century.
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Gedling was a tipping point for the Tories, we argued: if the Conservatives could take Gedling, they were on track for a big majority.
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The Scottish National Party won a landslide this week, taking seats from the Tories, and expects to do well in Scottish elections in 2021.
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First, the anti-EU Brexit Party was standing for the first time, but only in seats that were not already held by the Tories.
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Left-wing parties like Labour dominated among the industrial working class, while right-wing parties like the Tories did well among society's upper crust.
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However, both main parties, but particularly the Tories, know they will face a dire threat from Mr. Farage as long as Brexit goes unresolved.
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"It is frankly ridiculous that even on something this small the Tories have refused to act over the last few years," Farron told the BBC.
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In Scotland, by contrast, the local Tories ran their own campaign and did much better, helped by the dynamic and charismatic leadership of Ruth Davidson.
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Another is that some voters failed to pick up on the fact that Labour had, in effect, joined the Tories in proposing a "hard" Brexit.
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At the same time, the collapse of the UK Independence Party made the job of overhauling Tories more difficult, especially in the south of England.
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As The Economist went to press, the Tories were on course to win the largest number of seats—but perhaps not enough for a majority.
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Since Benjamin Disraeli pronounced that his Conservatives were a national party or else "nothing", the Tories have tried to appeal to every class and region.
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Parties that now contain elements of both will have internal conflicts, as is happening with Britain's Tories and the Republican Party in the United States.
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The Tories did best in constituencies that voted heavily for Brexit: in six of their eight new English seats the Leave vote was over 60%.
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"It didn't seem to be a document that was going to get the support of the Tory Brexiteers nor the pro-Europe Tories," he said.
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Wales has been fucked over by the Tories and Westminster for decades, and the decision to leave the EU is definitely not going to help.
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Until the DUP and the Tories come up with some kind of mutually agreeable concession, the latter can't count on the former in the vote.
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In 2013 the Tories promised that if they won a majority at the next election, they would hold an in-out referendum on EU membership.
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Standing as an independent (even if the Tories did not run a candidate against him) Mr Goldsmith did not have a party machine behind him.
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If the Tories back Brexit, want tighter controls on immigration and support the creation of new selective grammar schools, what is the point of UKIP?
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The party lacks money, is losing members to the Tories and could soon lose politicians, too, says Matthew Goodwin, a UKIP expert at Kent University.
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His Tories had lost seats in the election and trailed Labour by four, but he still tried to form a new government with the Liberals.
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Enthusiasm halted when a poll by Sir Lynton Crosby, the Tories' election guru, showed the party losing seats in the south to the Lib Dems.
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Garry Heath, a member of the Wycombe Conservative Association, wrote on the ConservativeHome blog that the Tories should "purge our party and deselect the Remainers".
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Europhile Tories like Ken Clarke are few these days; although the former Chancellor is standing again for Parliament, having previously announced he would step down.
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But with the Tories riding high on 44% in national opinion polls, Mr Corbyn's Labour Party could be the bigger loser in the longer term.
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Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Tories and a self-described "shovel-faced lesbian", is married, pregnant and one of the party's genuine stars.
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Rather than congratulate him, some fellow Tories subjected him to ridicule, suggesting that the title was an inducement to back the government's unpopular Brexit deal.
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It did its best to snatch the Tories' law and order mantle at last year's general election, promising to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers.
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Had Mrs May lost, the Tories' 124,000 party members would have chosen a new leader—and thus a new prime minister—to see Brexit through.
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But the brighter Tories recognise that this is a leadership election with a difference: this time they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.
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He recently compared Tories waiting for the perfect Brexit to "mid-50s swingers" waiting for Scarlett Johansson to turn up to one of their parties.
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Labour's revival in England also weakens the SNP's argument that independence is the only way that Scots can avoid being governed by Tories in Westminster.
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In 18th-century Britain, the aristocrats divided into Tories and Whigs, depending on their attitude towards issues such as constitutional monarchy and the established church.
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You can still divide business elites into Tories who emphasise low taxes and reduced regulation and Whigs who focus on social liberalism and the environment.
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Any sins of the coalition are overshadowed by the far bigger cock-ups made by the Tories when they governed alone, as Ms Swinson argues.
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Britain's first referendum on membership, in 1975, was all about economics, with the free-market Tories piling in behind Remain while protectionist Labour backed Leave.
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Although Brexit was a "huge, huge factor" in his election, he says long-term changes have made places like Mansfield more winnable for the Tories.
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Labour is only neck-and-neck with the Conservatives despite the government's innumerable problems: indeed, one poll this week had the Tories four points ahead.
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It is worth noting that ICM online polls tend to have a 1-point bias in favour of the Tories, according to UK Polling Report.
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While, by the numbers, the Tories might just be able to hold on, both political logic and historical precedent dictate that May should step down.
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