Mrs May's campaign team all but abolished the Tory party.
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The rump of the Tory party insists Brexit means Brexit.
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It is the Europhobic wing of her own Tory party.
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Bagehot lamented the "berks" who now control the Tory party.
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Now the contagion has spread far beyond the Tory Party.
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He started life on the nationalist right of the Tory party.
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The Tory party was supposed to the party of business, wasn't it?
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A fourth factor is divisions within parties, especially the ruling Tory party.
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As such he is the most interesting person in the Tory party.
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So the Tory Party conference made me think something needs to happen.
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Yet today's shrill debate over Brexit reflects mainly internal Tory party politics.
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The Tory party has held onto its wealthy heartlands in the rural shires.
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On the opposite side of the Tory party, Remainer MPs are making trouble.
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The Brexit wing of the Tory party is intertwined with Mr Trump's Washington.
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Because it is so out of touch, the Tory party can seem frivolous.
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And it has strong political backers besides UKIP, especially in the Tory party.
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Now, it's the Tory Party that might come apart along its Brexit axis.
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A good chunk of the Tory party had campaigned for the losing side.
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If he clings to power, a more radicalized Tory party could yet emerge.
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If he clings to power, a more radicalized Tory party could yet emerge.
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It will also add more heat to the pressure-cooker of the Tory party.
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Campaign managers calculated that the number of active Tory party members was about 50,000.
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Several leaders suggested that Mr Cameron's agenda was driven largely by Tory party politics.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized to his Tory party for missing the Oct.
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You'll still have divide in the Tory party and questions about the Irish border.
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Yet with the Tory party in its current state, Britain will have to wait.■
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It is hard to see how it will burnish his reputation among Tory party members.
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The European Research Group of hardline Brexiteers acts as a party within the Tory party.
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The mood of the Tory party conference, which begins on October 1st, could be decisive.
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Labour has no interest in rescuing a Tory party on the edge of total meltdown.
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The official Tory party put up a record 628 candidates in Wales on May 4th.
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A rather leisurely timeline was proposed for the Tory party leadership race to replace him.
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The Tory Party will surely pay a heavy cost for protecting incompetents like Mr Grayling.
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The Sunday Times' front page on the morning of Boris Johnson's first Tory Party conference.
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"You will see a limited appetite for populism in the Tory party," Mr. Bannon said.
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May's Conservative, or Tory, Party have been making trouble, as they increasingly fear that Mrs.
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Any control she once had over MPs, even from her own Tory party, has long gone.
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Then, as now, a divided Tory party had to choose between vested interests and cheaper food.
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As home-ownership falls, such a gap could become an existential problem for the Tory party.
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Young people in particular are already furious with the Tory party for dividing the country over Brexit.
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As Mr Rees-Mogg found out, word and deed do not always match in the Tory party.
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Eyes are on British Prime Minister Theresa May's final speech at her Tory Party conference on Wednesday.
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Mr Cameron revived the Tory party by promising, in effect, to put them back in the asylum.
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It is symptomatic of the division within the Tory Party, not within the country, yet at least.
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The main debate now is between different factions of the Tory Party (and they are both wrong).
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Nine recent Russian donors to the Tory party were named in the report, it emerged last weekend.
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The big event risks are in October, when we have the Tory party conference and Brexit talks.
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However, it is a triumph of Tory party unity, not a successful product of cross-party negotiation.
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The Tory party is now gearing up to do what it likes best: engaging in a leadership struggle.
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The policy is a shameless bribe to the elderly and prosperous Tory party members who choose the leader.
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The Tory party is heading for a substantial victory in large part because Labour's leaders are so unreconstructed.
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Nobody beyond the Tory party fringes seriously backed the alternative of Britain crashing out now with no-deal.
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Does the Tory party really want to test the populist gods and run the risk of Mr Johnson?
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Now the conservative Tory party is likely to make historic gains in the national elections on December 12.
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Both are vying to persuade the 20,000 members of the Tory party to pick them as their next leader.
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The Tory party conference, which begins in Birmingham on September 30th, will be an unusually angry and bitter affair.
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This is a problem that David Cameron, with all his attempts to modernise the Tory party, failed to solve.
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The younger generation includes several leading lights who challenge the idea that the Tory party is a white one.
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What began as a gambit to hold together his divided Tory party is turning into an alarmingly close contest.
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But it did not cleanse the Tory Party itself of its unappealing image as a club for the greedy.
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IF THE Church of England is the Tory Party at prayer, garden parties are where it lets its hair down.
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Even abroad, I mean, Maggie Thatcher was attacked by the establishment of the Tory Party, the conservative party in England.
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Anna Soubry, a former business minister, said the battle for the Tory party was over as the extremists had won.
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Most Labour members disagree with their party's official support for leaving, whereas most Tory party members support their party's position.
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This dusty response contrasted with the praise for Mrs May's speech from all sides of her Tory party in Westminster.
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With no major gaffes in quite some time, the idea of his leading the Tory Party has become increasingly realistic.
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This time next year, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn will be prime minister and Boris Johnson will head the Tory party.
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With a white tick logo on a purple background, the branding obscured the account&aposs links to the Tory party.
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His constant bang, bang, banging of the drums about Hitler and Germany's rise was unwelcome even within the Tory Party.
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Yes, the foreign secretary remains popular among Tory party members and has a theatrical flair that appeals to many voters.
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He is not likely to do that, but his own Tory party conference next week may now not take place.
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All three were booted out of the Tory party earlier this year for voting to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
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He detoxified the Tory Party by his "hug a husky" strategy of embracing gay rights and promoting ethnic minorities and gays.
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The Facebook pages for Theresa May and her Tory party are dwarfed in size by those of Jeremy Corbyn and Labour.
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His successor as leader will be elected by Tory party members and the results are set to be announced Sept. 22016.
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The numbers are even more lopsided in the constituencies: more than 70% of Tory party members support a no-deal Brexit.
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This would do wonders for Mrs May's reputation (remember she's promised not to lead the Tory Party into the next election).
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Ms Patel represents the beating heart of the new populist Tory party that is growing up alongside the old conservative version.
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The Tory party is far more worried about Jeremy Corbyn than it was when he won Labour's leadership election three years ago.
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Under fire at home and abroad, May's position has looked more vulnerable than ever as she entered this year's Tory party conference.
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They will now go head-to-head in a series of 11 hustings before Tory party members vote in a postal ballot.
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Mrs May has also argued strongly against excessive immigration, for instance in a jarringly rabid speech to the 2015 Tory party conference.
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The Tory party is so demented that some members are rallying behind Jacob Rees-Mogg, a pantomime toff, to succeed Theresa May.
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Four opinion polls found that support for Johnson's Tory party had bounced since he took over from Theresa May earlier this week.
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Mr. Johnson is overwhelmingly likely to be chosen in a ballot of Tory party members next month, despite his chaotic personal life.
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He was greeted there, wonderingly, as a latter-day Lawrence of Arabia, an odd fit in a Tory party sliding toward populism.
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It is also a scene-setter to portray him, to the Tory party in Birmingham this week, as a leader-in-waiting.
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It reflects years of bitter infighting within the Tory party that even the Mayor of London won't campaign to stay in Europe.
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He's taken on a more sinister persona as he backed the Leave campaign seemingly so he could take over the Tory Party.
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On the second, Tory party members like Mr Johnson more than Tory MPs do—and are getting keener with every suicide-vest jibe.
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The Tory Party needs to double down on Tory values such as patriotism and social conservatism rather than apologising to the liberal elites.
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In Tory party constituency associations Mrs May, a vicar's daughter who does her homework and shows up to village fetes, is still popular.
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That ambivalence curdled into hatred in some sections of the Tory party as the EU acquired more of the trappings of a state.
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Following the Irish referendum, senior figures in the Tory party, as well as the opposition, are pushing for abortion reform in Northern Ireland.
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Boris decided he will not throw his hat into the Tory-party-leadership ring, whereas Farage resigned as head of the Independence Party.
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A Tory party leadership election is expected as soon as the Brexit deal, in whatever form it takes, is out of the way.
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What happened at the Tory Party conference was pretty much the worst and most toxic manifestation of xenophobia I think I've ever seen.
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She won a scholarship to Oxford and then wended her way to Tory party leader in 1975 and finally prime minister in 85033.
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The second speech in her trilogy was delivered to the Tory party conference in October 1988, a month after the Royal Society talk.
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She hit back the following day with a defiant speech that cheered the Tory party faithful and eurosceptic elements of the UK media.
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A contested leadership vote could take up to 8 weeks to complete and likely exacerbate the already deep divisions within the Tory party.
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Now one of the few things keeping the Tory party from tearing itself apart is fear that Mr Corbyn will win the next election.
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The Tory party not only gave them the opportunity to do so; unlike any other party, it boasted many MPs who shared their views.
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Fully 71% of Tory party members are men and 44% are over 65 years old, compared with 18% of the population as a whole.
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And although most Tory party members like the sound of a no-deal Brexit, a majority of MPs and voters are firmly against it.
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He delivered a cautious budget that is unlikely to give his enemies in the Tory party an excuse to call for him to go.
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The assumption is that an establishment (reformed Remainer) candidate will face off against an insurgent (Brexiteer) in the final ballot of Tory party activists.
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The final choice will be made by a postal ballot of the 150,000-odd Tory party members, with the result coming on September 9th.
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And third was talk of a big prime-ministerial speech on Britain's Brexit objectives to be given next month, before the Tory party conference.
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The candidates for the two major parties are incumbent Theresa May, leader of the Tory party, and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour party.
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Lord Lexden, the Tory party historian, said leaders should cultivate wide-ranging friendships in Parliament, in part to insulate themselves from such a danger.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that Sajid Javid will remain chancellor of the exchequer if the Tory Party wins upcoming general election.
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With Brexit lurching from disaster to disaster and the Tory Party increasingly associated with the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, she may rue her decision.
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But against a backward-looking Labour Party and an inward-looking Tory party about to compound its historic mistake over Brexit, they get our vote.
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About 60% of those over 65 voted to leave the EU in the referendum of 2016, as did about two-thirds of Tory party members.
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The British, with two big parties, may have to pick between Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's hard-left leader, and a radicalised Tory party under Mr Johnson.
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In 1950 the Tory Party leadership was forced to commit itself to building 300,000 new houses after a series of rebellions on the conference floor.
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And time is extremely short, since nothing serious will be done before the Tory party conference in early October, just four weeks before the deadline.
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Theresa May, whose Tory party manifesto criticised untrammelled free markets and promised to keep and even improve workers' rights, is unlikely to adopt either course.
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She became Prime Minister by being underestimated by her opponents inside the Tory Party, such as her predecessor David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne.
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Michael Gove thought he could lead the Tory party for about three days before unelected Theresa May strode into Number 10 as PM on Wednesday.
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There has never been a better opportunity for a profound realignment of politics: the centre has crumbled and the Tory party is tearing itself to pieces.
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Theresa May's grip on power looked increasingly shaky, as even her erstwhile supporters abandoned her and her rivals in the Tory party sought to oust her.
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If this is an illustration of the kind of diplomacy that we might expect from a Johnson leadership of the Tory Party then heaven help us.
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He had backed Brexit, probably opportunistically: Tory party members are Eurosceptic and will choose the next leader of the party from two candidates shortlisted by MPs.
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Philip Hammond, a former chancellor, accused Mr Johnson of "blocking Brexit" in order to pursue a wider objective of shifting the Tory party to the right.
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David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister at the time, sought to present a more sympathetic Tory party, distinct from the sharp edges of the Thatcher years.
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Indeed the Tory party has controlled Workington for just three of its 100 year history with the Labour Party holding the seat for the other 97.
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The Tory party quickly replaced Eden with a much better prime minister, Harold Macmillan, and went on to win the next general election with an enhanced majority.
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That has left Labour on the sidelines of the debate over the terms of Brexit, which often seems to be taking place chiefly inside the Tory party.
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"Theresa May plays down predictions of a landslide for her Tory party Four days' less labour"After seven years of painful austerity, our workers deserve a break.
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"Just about the only thing less popular than the euro is the Tory party," he later observed, in the typically direct manner that infuriates right-wing Conservatives.
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"Then she went into a shell and we heard nothing from her until she came out with her red lines at the Tory party conference," Rutter said.
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The field is so crowded that the Tory party modified its rules to try to whittle the contenders down to a shortlist of two by June 20.
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As ITV News journalist Paul Brand reported from his conversations with northern Labour voters, they view "Boris" as different from the Tory party they have long despised.
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The poll of 235,215 Tory Party members, carried out in late December as part of a continuing academic study, found them in no mood for compromise. Mrs.
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Cross-party efforts to protect the Speaker from an attempted overthrow are already underway and MPs from Duddridge's own Tory party have publicly declared support for him.
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She became prime minister only because the Tory party was desperate for somebody who could unite pro- and anti-Brexit factions after Mr Cameron's resignation following the referendum.
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Mr Heseltine kept this creed going at a time when the Tory Party threatened to retreat from Disraeli's vision of a national party into a Southern-English party.
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So far this does not seem to be working, partly because hardline Brexiteers, like most Tory party members, favour what they like to call a "managed" no deal.
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Conservative leadership candidates have vociferously defended the right of well-off OAPs to watch TV for nothing (unsurprisingly, since they make up so much of the Tory party).
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The Queen dutifully complied with the prorogation, but in early September the opposition — joined by 21 defectors from the Tory party, voted strongly against a no-deal exit.
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In his speech, Johnson noted that the next Conservative leader and prime minister will have the hefty responsibilities of unifying the Tory party and maintaining Britain's powerful global status.
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David Cameron carefully tempered his drive to modernise the Tory Party with minority- and gay-friendly policies with a promise to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands annually.
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But under Mr Johnson and his Svengali-like adviser, Dominic Cummings, who masterminded the Leave campaign, the Tory party has become not just pro-Brexit but pro-no-deal.
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A THUMPING WIN for Boris Johnson's Tory party is more complex than it seems; the returns cast a light on changes bubbling under the surface of the country's politics.
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Defeat is likely because a group of hardline Eurosceptics in the Tory party loathe the deal—as does the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that props up the government.
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Whatever happens, his group is likely to prove a thorn in Mr Corbyn's side—just as the right-wing European Research Group within the Tory party is for Mrs May.
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After a weekend when the Tory party has appeared to be tearing itself apart over Brexit, those people who have sterling to sell will be doing so anywhere around 1.30.
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He made the gamble only in order to see off a challenge from the Europhobic wing of his Tory party and the defection of voters to the UK Independence Party.
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Since becoming chancellor in July 2016 Mr Hammond has resisted growing calls, including from within his own Tory party, to ramp up spending on things like local government and welfare.
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They want a "soft" Brexit and they're now in bed with the Tory party that's trying to push Brexit through, which ran a really strong, tough, Brexit throughout the campaign.
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The arguments over facts in these areas are as nothing compared with the differences on migration and sovereignty—nor compared with the bitter rows within the Tory party (see article).
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"As long as the opposition parties can maintain unity and coordinate with his opponents within the Tory party, I don't think he has any alternative but to resign," Ferguson said.
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"I just wonder if the spin doctors in the Tory party thought that would be a card that wouldn&apost look too great in Boris Johnson&aposs hands," Grant said.
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On February 1st a poll of Tory party members conducted by ConservativeHome, an activists' website, found that he was the top choice to succeed Theresa May, with 21% of the vote.
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Yes, the chances are that when the next general election is called (most likely in 2022), Mr. Corbyn's Labour will defeat a raggle-taggle Tory Party, decimated by Europe yet again.
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"I find it incredibly self indulgent for the Tory party to be going for this sort of stuff," he said on ITV television, using an alternative name for the Conservative Party.
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Crispin Blunt, a lawmaker from the conservative Tory party, protested that Mr. Bercow could no longer claim to be a neutral arbiter on the issue of Brexit and should step down.
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" In a 2006 Telegraph column attacking Tony Blair, Johnson wrote: "For 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing.
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The Tory party touts itself as the party of business, boasting of its record of low taxes, job creation and light-touch regulation, and the business community responds by strongly backing it.
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She also has in mind her lack of a direct mandate: she has never won a general election, having succeeded Mr Cameron as prime minister only via a Tory party leadership contest.
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The Tory Party wants to eat into Labour's solid lead among ethnic minorities by attracting groups such as Sikhs and Gujarati Hindus and leaving Labour with a (largely Muslim) inner-city machine.
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The Tory party has succeeded in recruiting impressive former soldiers such as Tom Tugendhat, as well as members of ethnic minorities such as Mr Javid, the son of an immigrant bus driver.
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As he steered through narrow country lanes, past haystacks and swelling hillsides dotted with sheep, he denied any ambition to become leader of the Tory Party, or for that matter, prime minister.
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"With only a week to go until the UK election, the Tory party still hold a sizeable lead of around 10 percentage points over Labour," MUFG analysts told clients in a note.
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The aristocratic wing of the Tory Party also boasted deep Scottish connections: Alec Douglas-Home had an estate up there and even David Cameron could boast a Scottish name and Scottish shooting buddies.
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One of the biggest problems facing the Tory Party (presuming that it can avoid being torn apart by the madness of Brexit, a big assumption) is the hollowing out of the middle class.
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"The moments that stand out are the first Sunday at Tory Party Conference in 2016 when she hinted at her red lines and said we're leaving the customs union," he told Business Insider.
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Clapton's words could just have easily been overheard last week in your local pub, muttered under someone's breath at the 2016 Tory Party Conference, or shouted loud and proud by a UKIP supporter.
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Meanwhile a Muslim businessman, Mohammad Amin, responded to Mr Johnson's elevation by resigning from the Tory party in protest at the politician's record of inflammatory references to Islamic face-veils (such as "letter-boxes").
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The shocking announcement came shortly before the Thursday morning deadline for nominations for a new leader of the conservative Tory party, during a speech that was intended to mark the launch of Johnson's campaign.
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" Speaking at a fringe event at the Tory party conference earlier this week, O'Neill added: "It seems to be a particular honor of whoever happens to be foreign secretary to say evidently silly things.
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But the winner of such contests in the Tory party is rarely the one who wields the knife, and while Mr. Johnson would seem to lead the race, his success is far from assured.
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There was little opposition when Mrs May announced at the Tory party conference last month that she would freeze the cap on tuition fees and would set up a review of the funding regime.
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Dorries is an active member of the hard-line anti-EU ERG grouping within the Tory Party, which last month met with Trump adviser John Bolton to plan tactics ahead of the Trump visit.
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Public opinion is shifting both against Brexit and in favor of a people's vote -- not least because they think the talks are going so badly and the Tory party is tearing itself to bits.
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THE CLOSEST thing the Tory party has had to an in-house philosopher is Edmund Burke, and the closest thing it has to an intellectual bête noire is Burke's French contemporary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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It is typically one of the most important issues for voters during elections and often regarded as a weakness for May's Conservative, or Tory, Party, whose opponents accuse the government of inadequately investing in it.
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To burnish their "party within a party" credentials Brexit Central provided attendees with a purple ribbon to replace the regular blue ribbon issued by the Tory Party to hang the all-important conference passes on.
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Anna Soubry, an anti-Brexit MP, frets that former members of the UK Independence Party may be infiltrating the Conservatives, and has called on the Tory party chairman, Brandon Lewis, to pause his membership drive.
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Over the past few months the Tory party has been so convulsed by internal leadership struggles—by briefings and counter-briefings, rhetorical acid-attacks and counter-attacks—that it has sometimes seemed incapable of governing.
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It would do wonders for the Tory Party, which would then be able to choose between a collection of perfectly competent successors, such as Sajid Javid, the home secretary, and Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary.
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Johnson's hardline approach may lead to early elections; his selection by Tory party members alone gives him a mandate from less than 85033 percent of the country, with 58 percent of voters viewing him negatively.
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The Tory party can martial two rising female stars with military backgrounds: Penny Mordaunt, the development secretary, is a Royal Navy reservist, and Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, was in the Territorial Army.
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While there will be no immediate challenge to her leadership as members of Parliament prepare to start their summer break next week, the Tory party conference in the autumn will renew focus on her weakened authority.
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In an interview, he said the Tory party must win a "battle of ideas" between the forces of the free market and socialism, and that its message to voters, especially young ones, had been too timorous.
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While Hamilton could remain confident that the Federalists would ultimately stand behind his compromise, May's Tory Party is so plagued by division that a grand compromise that sidelined the hard Brexiteers would risk an irrevocable breach.
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Mrs May's insistence that immigration can be reduced to the tens of thousands and that no deal is better than a bad deal threatens to drive a wedge between the Tory party and its most loyal constituency.
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With the likes of Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, and Michael Gove, the environment secretary, bound by collective cabinet responsibility, Mr Rees-Mogg has emerged as the leader of the ultra-Brexiteer faction of the Tory party.
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A time will come for reflection on the good in Mr Cameron's leadership of the Conservative Party and his premiership, on his fundamentally correct vision for a one-nation Tory party in possession of the centre ground.
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The Tory party is now everything I dreamed of all those years ago in Notting Hill—a national party with MPs in every corner of the country, from Scotland to inner-London, and a thoroughly modern programme.
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"The [Tory] party is in denial of the fundamental issue, which is that a large number of British Muslims think the party is anti-Muslim," says Mohammed Amin, the chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, a members' group.
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While Johnson and the Tory Party claim they would win seats from Labour, the consensus seems to be that they would also lose seats to the Liberal Democrats and in Scotland, where voters are demanding a second referendum.
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Robert Peel destroyed his career and split his party in order to do the right thing—abolish the Corn Laws that subsidised the agricultural interests (the backbone of the old Tory Party) at the expense of everybody else.
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The older membership cannot match the Labour Party's ground game; the Mile End Institute notes that Tory Party members were responsible for just 262,150 "campaign activities" during the election of 19563 compared with 1,385,520 for the Labour Party.
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The Tory party is naturally better protected from the spirit of millenarianism than Labour: Toryism is surely a philosophy based on the notion of the imperfectability of man, the necessity of messy compromises and the danger of fanaticism.
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So I nip over the road to the local Tesco (another Tory party donor, I'm afraid) and stock up on a £1 Ginsters Sausage Roll, a £2.10 chicken slice, and a reduced price (lucky me) 89p Cornish pasty.
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And one of the many shocking results of Brexit is the rupture it has created between the Tory Party and its unionist allies in Northern Ireland, the defense of whom has been a defining feature of British conservatism.
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"None of this guarantees Britain won't bumble out of the EU sans deal, especially given the frothing fury May's cross-party olive branch has caused among the hard right of her Tory party," said Spreadex Analyst Connor Campbell.
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However, his opponents point to the role he played as a whip in trying to force Johnson's Brexit deal through Parliament, particularly the booting out of 21 self-described one nation MPs from the Tory party in September.
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The prime minister bounced back from last month's humiliating rejection of her "Chequers" plan for Brexit by European Union leaders in Salzburg, to what felt like a relative triumph at the Tory party conference in Birmingham a fortnight later.
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"It is certainly hard to justify buying GBP in front of the Tory Party conference starting 30 September, which is going to be highly polarised and likely reinforce the lack of consensus," wrote analysts at ANZ in a note.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron, who resigned on Friday over the results of the referendum, said Britain would probably make such a notification only in October, once a new leader of the Tory party is chosen to succeed him.
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This was one of many sops to the minority of swivel-eyed hard Brexiteers who have dictated the terms of negotiations ever since the referendum by threatening to blow the Tory Party apart if they don't get their way.
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He was recently compared to a protagonist from political-drama House Of Cards after declaring "I don't very much believe in the stick, but it's amazing what can be achieved with a sharpened carrot" in his Tory party conference speech.
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The Brexit wing of the Tory Party still believes that the Tory Party's future lies in extending its support in working-class regions in the Midlands and the North even if it means losing middle-class regions in the South.
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He is also a pillar of "progressive" Europhile Toryism: he is one of the most Europhile members of the Tory party and a leading member of Bright Blue, a reforming Tory pressure group in which Ms Maltby was also active.
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In the end, May's Tory party failed to win a majority in parliament, prompting calls for her plan to leave the EU's single market to be watered down and leading some rival lawmakers to demand the Brexit process be delayed.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the ringmaster of the Conservative Brexiteers, has warned Mrs May not to follow in the footsteps of Robert Peel, who split the Tory party for a generation in the 19th century by repealing the protectionist Corn Laws.
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Some had predicted that the Tory party would split over Europe in the same way it did over agricultural protectionism in the 19th century; in fact there are signs the ruling party could come back together more quickly than thought.
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"We need to avoid a long period of uncertainty and the European continent cannot be occupied by an internal Tory battle about who will be the next leader of the Tory party and the prime ministers of Great Britain," Weber said.
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That would be a hard sell to those who bought the leave campaign's slogan in the 2016 Brexit referendum — "Take back control" — and is positively anathema to most of the Tory Party membership and its more enthusiastically pro-Brexit lawmakers.
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In London, Prime Minister Theresa May was fighting to save the withdrawal agreement she agreed on with the EU earlier this week, after resignations in her cabinet and with a potential challenge to her Tory party leadership hanging over her.
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Johnson's "do or die" effort to get Brexit done by the Halloween deadline was one of the main reasons he was elected as Tory party leader over the summer, and until late last week he continued to claim a departure on Oct.
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It will now be up to Boris Johnson, the likely new British prime minster, and the Tory party, perhaps with bipartisan help, to negotiate a good trade deal and move more aggressively on the pro-growth path of free-market supply-side policies.
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"We've always been concerned the market is probably buying too much the large majority scenario for the Tory party and sterling is vulnerable in the near term to headwinds," said Kamal Sharma, currency strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London.
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A new survey by Queen Mary University of London and YouGov reveals that only 14% of Tory party members want a second referendum and only 25% support continued membership of the single market (the figures for Labour members are 78% and 87%).
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Theresa May has repeatedly given in to the Brexiteers despite her realisation, as a rising politician, that a Tory party keen to recruit new members needed to shed its image as "the nasty party", rather than becoming a rest home for elderly cranks.
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Now, in his bid for the votes of right-wing Tory party members, he talks up the prospect of leaving the EU with no deal—"fuck business" if it gets in the way—and joking that women in burkas "look like letterboxes".
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His Eurosceptic critics, many of them in his own Tory party, dismiss his reforms as trivial changes that deliver neither the fundamental change in Britain's relationship with the EU he once promised nor the full-on treaty change he said he would achieve.
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Suggestions that Michael Gove, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, the three big undecided beasts of the Tory Party, might be swayed by the precise details of the final renegotiation is, to borrow a term from the latter, an inverted pyramid of piffle.
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"We need to avoid a long period of uncertainty and the European continent cannot be occupied by an internal Tory (Conservative) battle about who will be the next leader of the Tory party and the prime minister of Great Britain," he said.
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That measure is anathema to the right wing of the Tory party, which regards it as a ruse to permanently render Britain a "vassal state," beholden to the bloc's rules and regulations with no say in them and no plausible way to escape.
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Robert Ford, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, recalled Margaret Thatcher's thesis about homeownership: By allowing low-income Britons to buy the state housing they rented, she could make them into stakeholders in market capitalism, enlarging the Tory Party.
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And in the particular case of Theresa May, the DUP has a position on Brexit, broadly in favour of a softer version, that must be at odds with the bulk of the Tory party, let alone fanatics such as John Redwood and Liam Fox.
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Remainers in Parliament said it offered worse terms than the current full membership while pro-Brexit lawmakers said it kept the U.K. too close to the EU. Whoever becomes the next Tory party and prime minister will still have to confront a divided Parliament.
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In Britain, meanwhile, many Muslims are expressing horror at the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming Tory Party leader and prime minister: not because of any regulation he plans to introduce but because of the tone he has set in comments about Muslim female dress.
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"Although November was cited as a potential date for a deal the reality is there is still a lot more to be discussed and there is a huge gap between the warring factions of the Tory party," said Jane Foley, an FX strategist at Rabobank.
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"(Blaming the EU for a no-deal) would be an abdication of responsibility of huge and historic proportions and an approach for which Theresa May and the Tory party would pay a very heavy political price, especially in Scotland, which overwhelmingly rejected Brexit," she added.
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Now the final list of 10 candidates are known, a series of votes will take place to whittle the number down to two candidates who will face the wider Tory party membership who then pick their preferred candidate and decide on the party's – and country's – next leader.
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An advocate of a "hard" Brexit with benefits -- or what he calls a "Super Canada" deal, referring to the free trade deal Canada has with the EU which allows for zero tariff trade – Johnson is seen as the most likely contender for the Tory party leadership.
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Tory party members, who have the final say, may favour one of the victorious Leave campaigners, a mediocre bunch who have disgraced themselves during the campaign: lying about inflated budget payments and phantom Turkish migrants, before vanishing after the vote when the Brexit hit the fan.
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The irony was that the Tory Party itself is deeply divided over the forthcoming E.U. referendum, and for a few seconds it seemed as though every M.P. in the chamber was hollering and waving his or her hands, as if hailing the disintegration of the world.
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Johnson's belief that the story would quickly blow over were dashed the following weekend when, on the eve of the Tory Party conference, the Sunday Times carried a follow-up story with multiple sources backing up the claim Boris had been having an extramarital affair with Arcuri.
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" Surprisingly, given the name, most members of Toryblr are American, and aren't specifically focused on supporting the British monarchy: "We don't have any affiliation or affection to/for the modern Tory party of the UK, but traditionally the Tories have been the monarchists, so that's where it comes from.
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Alarm bells were ringing among the Cameroons at the announcement by the new home secretary, Amber Rudd, at last week's Tory party conference that businesses would have to declare the proportion of foreign workers among their staff, as a means of shaming them into taking on more British ones.
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The Tory party is thus in a more peculiar position than most people imagine: it not only has a caretaker prime minister but also a collection of caretaker cabinet members (such as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Liam Fox) who are only being held in place by factional hatred.
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Boris Johnson, who could be next in line to form a Tory-led government, has come out against the copyright rules as an example of why the U.K. needs to leave the EU. But right now, it's Johnson's Tory party that has positioned the U.K. behind the bill.
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"As soon as this conference is over I hope we will get back to the kind of professional negotiations that had been going on before the Tory party conference to get what needs to be done in the next couple of months over the line," Coveney told reporters.
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Guy Verhofstadt, a prominent European federalist who leads the third biggest bloc in the European Parliament, said he had no patience for "an internal cat-fight of the Tory party" and said the departure of eurosceptic Britain made it easier for the rest of the EU to unite.
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Still keen to disabuse anyone (least of all pro-Brexit Tory party members) of the notion that she will renege on the result of the referendum, May has reiterated so far that "Brexit means Brexit" and she will strike a hard bargain with EU leaders over the terms of withdrawal.
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NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The sterling fell to session lows against the euro and dollar on Wednesday following a BBC report that Brexit proponents in the Tory party in the U.K. parliament might call for a no confidence vote on their leader and Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday.
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Brexit -- a cause confected almost entirely within the collective psyche of the Tory party -- has left British politics mudbound, Irish politics teetering on the edge of the most serious crisis since the Troubles of the 1970s and relations with our closest and most important trading partner, the EU, in the toilet.
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"If we come out of conference with her hoping to get Chequers through on the back of Labour votes, I think the EU negotiators would probably understand that if that were done, the Tory party would suffer the catastrophic split which thus far we have managed to avoid," Baker was quoted as saying.
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"I think a new leader would not really resolve the current stalemate because it is likely that he or she will come from the more intransigent, euroskeptic side of the Tory party while the parliamentary arithmetic has not really changed," Silvia Dall'Angelo, senior economist at Hermes Investment Management, told CNBC Friday morning.
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Both are trying to appeal to the majority of the Tory party members who are keen to make a clean break with the EU. The contest between Johnson and Hunt "has transformed into an arms race of who is a bigger Brexiter," said Vasileios Gkionakis, global head of forex strategy at Lombard Odier.
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In 2015, at the conference of a triumphant Tory Party briefly keen to present itself as the one of sensible liberal moderation, she ruined the party by grimly announcing a new assault on some of the most vulnerable people on the planet, promising to close borders to refugees and ramp up deportations.
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Boris Johnson, who is widely expected to become Tory party leader according to polls, has said that he would try to renegotiate the Brexit deal that May hammered out with Brussels, claiming that he would withhold paying a £39 billion divorce bill that was previously agreed would be paid when the U.K. leaves the bloc.
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Electoral Commission records show Temerko, and UK companies linked to him, have made donations to 11 individual MPs, including Lewis, the chairman of the Tory Party, while helping fund as many as 27 local branches of the Conservative Party in areas where Tory MPs won election in the north of England, Wales and London.
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And I think there is a sense maybe that if Theresa May shows her hand too early, in terms of real pragmatism in resolving this, that that pragmatism gets undermined by various camps within the Tory party that are pushing for hard Brexit, and in the midst of that you have all the leadership issues.
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The new study, commissioned by Volteface—a think-tank with links to the Cameronite faction of the Tory party [the UK's conservative party]—also suggested that more than 6 million people will ask their doctor about accessing cannabis medicines, a substantial rise on the estimated 1 million people who currently use cannabis to treat their conditions.
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"Questions that remain to be settled include whether May will stay in place while the Tory Party chooses her successor; some ministers want David Lidington, her de-facto deputy, to act as caretaker prime minister, but May is expected to stay in place until her successor takes over," Mujtaba Rahman, managing director of Europe at Eurasia Group, said in a note Thursday.
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If he steps down and a Brexiteer takes over as leader of the Tory party and as prime minister, he or she is likely to argue that Article 50 is biased against the interests of a country leaving the EU. Under Article 50, the terms of Britain's departure would be agreed by the other 27 EU countries, without a British vote.
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A Tory party that is deeply divided over the most important issue facing the country; an establishment that thinks that Brexit is a Tory-made disaster; a generational divide that has left people under 40 struggling to get their feet on the property ladder; and a widespread sense that the country's infrastructure, from the NHS to the transport system, is on the verge of collapse.
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Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, believes we need more police on our streets (thanks to budget cuts, we now have less bobbies on the beat in England and Wales than we did ten years ago), while home secretary Amber Rudd, member of the austerity-loving Tory party, believes otherwise, ignoring a leaked report that suggests budget cuts are to blame for the rise in crime.
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Support for such a move is increasing: A survey published in late May by the Republic of Ireland's national public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, found that 65 percent of people supported reunification; while a YouGov poll of the Tory party undertaken in June found that 59 percent of members are willing to see Northern Ireland leave the UK if it means the delivery of Brexit.
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"I can't see them coming back with a deal that is going to meet our six tests and I can't see them coming back with a deal that will unite the Tory party, for Heaven's sake ," Thornberry told the FT. Thornberry said there would need to be a national election within months given the likelihood that the prime minister would be defeated on the crucial vote on any Brexit deal.
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Almost five months after he stepped down from his role as Prime Minister, you might for a second forget that David Cameron isn't still running the UK. He's come to define the last few years of austerity Britain, of a Tory party that champions spending cuts and slashed benefits for the young, while making jokes about how the leader of the opposition does up his tie and sings the national anthem.
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He not only claimed that the Labour Party was responsible for delivering almost every progressive political reform possible—votes for women, the welfare state, the National Health Service—he also insisted that the Tory party was plotting to take all these things away Much of this was self-evident nonsense: the Conservative Party is being led by its second female leader while the Labour Party has both a male leader and a male deputy-leader (Tom Watson).
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In essence, Article 50 — a version of which has only ever been invoked once, by Greenland in 1985 when they were part of the EU's predecessor, the European Economic Area (EEA) — determines the process of a member country leaving the EU. Prime Minister David Cameron said in his resignation speech that he expects the new PM to be appointed next October at the Tory Party Conference, and that that PM will issue the Article 50 notice to the EU. However, there was news that EU bureaucrats expect the British to invoke Article 50 sooner.
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" "During the election campaign for the new leadership of the Tory party, it seems the positions have shifted so much, so it is difficult for me to assess where exactly all the positions are at the moment and as you know it's my opinion that if the political declaration has to be changed, that we need movement from the UK side ... (On limiting the Irish backstop) Why would the UK agree with a time limit to the backstop, because it would mean the end of the Good Friday agreement in three, four or five years time?
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But the middle ranks of the party are full of highly talented people from a wide variety of social and ethnic backgrounds: Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond, Yorkshire, and a successful entrepreneur who also happens to be married to the daughter of one of the richest men in India; Kwasi Kwarteng, MP for Spelthorne and a talented historian; Rory Stewart, MP for Penrith and the Border, and a man who has already enjoyed successful careers in the army, intelligence services and academia; and Ruth Davidson, head of the Scottish Tory party and the great hope in the north.
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