| The Tory vote might hold, but the Lib Dem vote would fall as people switched back to Labour. |
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| The Tory peer fully backed up his comments, thus risking being summoned by the Tory whips' office. |
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| Tory pretended disgust and turned away to avoid staring at the strawberry blonde actress. |
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| And then William Hague made Michael Portillo, the Tory Party's supreme Eurosceptic, his right-hand man. |
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| Its politics are essentially those of people like Norman Tebbit on the right wing of the Tory party. |
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| It was the era when William Pitt, prime minister and head of the Tory Party, clashed with Charles Fox and his more liberal Whigs. |
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| In 1783, with Tory Prime Minister Shelbourne's government in ruin, George III was appalled at the idea of accepting a Whig as prime minister. |
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| The inquiry's powers are entirely advisory and its purview has been defined by the Tory government itself. |
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| After the 1991 Gulf War a Tory MP said that the country owed British soldiers a debt of honour. |
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| The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate. |
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| The people of Tory Island and their King were treated to a royal welcome in Monasterevin last weekend. |
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| Tory wets will enthuse about social justice and inclusivity like simpering liberals. |
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| The Tory leader hopes to see off his critics by unveiling a raft of policies this week on pensions, health, education and policing. |
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| Great to see he stayed close to his roots and didn't make the transition to Chelsea to hobnob with the celebrities, luvvies and Tory adulterers. |
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| The party benefited from the sharp fall in the Tory vote and from tactical voting to win 46 seats in 1997, 10 of them in Scotland. |
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| These are Tory Trotskyites who are quite happy that things should get worse, because they barmily think they will then get better. |
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| Local Democracy week has been branded a sham by Tory councillors after their deputy leader was barred from speaking at a high-level meeting. |
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| Fingers are being pointed at the top banana in the Tory campaign, who is an Aussie. |
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| The Tory leader had a go at scratching and mixing on record decks when he visited the Fusion Project to talk to young people. |
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| William Hague laid down a marker for the election this week, when he made a speech promising that a Tory government would introduce tax cuts. |
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| The Labour MP was defending an already tight 2,138 majority in a seat targeted as a key marginal by Tory chiefs. |
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| Yet when one thinks of the famed Tory backwoodsmen of the House of Lords, it is hard to regard the aristocracy as a hotbed of dissent. |
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| I can see that being popular with the Tory backwoodsmen in the House of Commons. |
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| Labour's hall these days is full of normal-looking types, but the Tory fightback to normality has barely begun. |
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| Pensioners and workers are hammered by this Tory tax while the wealthy pay a pittance. |
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| It is a pity that it could not set itself up as a ginger group within the Tory Party. |
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| Although Johnson himself was a fervent Tory, it is interesting to note that he was on friendly and intimate terms with several well-known Whigs. |
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| Bradford's Tory council let them book a public room to spread their racist poison. |
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| He cites both the 1970 and 1992 elections, when the polls suggested a clear Labour lead, and the elections delivered surprise Tory victories. |
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| The Tory member could face a battle to deselect him as the party's candidate at the general election. |
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| John Major's Tory government introduced the council tax in 1993 to replace the hated poll tax. |
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| Lots of perfectly nice people vote Tory, I am sure, alongside the ranks of the pop-eyed complainers and mouldy-dough patriots. |
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| According to Wellington's way of thinking, Tory MPs had no business trying to dictate to him what his policies should be. |
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| As in 2005, we must consider voters actively put off voting Tory by a knock on the door from the green welly brigade. |
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| Every year, probably another 50,000 ethnic minority voters join the electoral rolls and hardly any of them will ever vote Tory. |
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| In 1979 some 61 percent of the entire potential electorate voted for either the Labour or the Tory party. |
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| A Tory government again invoked emergency powers, against striking rail workers. |
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| The noble Lord's emollient talents were therefore deployed to save the stalled bill by cutting a deal with the Tory leader in the lords. |
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| As the Tory leader delivered his stump speech from the steps of the Guildhall, a police officer filmed the crowd. |
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| Charging for waste disposal was one idea he threw out before hastily saying that that was not Tory policy. |
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| This means a hardened Euro-sceptical rhetoric from him, but also heightened tensions with the real Tory Euro-sceptics over withdrawal. |
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| At home, the government has pursued Tory policies every bit as ardently as the Tories would have done. |
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| Under New Labour, Tory policies have been dusted down and briskly put into effect without any real opposition. |
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| Yet he loves to expose those in the public eye, especially Tory politicians, for sleaze. |
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| So on with the green eyeshade this morning to try and make sense of and comment on the Tory reshuffle. |
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| In 1820 Scott, with other prominent Tories, secretly financed the new Tory journal the Beacon, whose aim was to assail radical Whiggism. |
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| The pupil passports, so far restricted to inner-city areas under existing Tory plans, will be extended nationwide. |
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| All those former Tory MPs caught in the bushes of St James Park with one of those fine upstanding men must be crying into their pink gins. |
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| Labour also believes that fervent Tory supporters were among the team counting the votes, and believes it to be unjust. |
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| But electoral logic dictates he appeal to younger voters and suddenly the Tory leader is coming over all tolerant and inclusive. |
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| He said the UK, despite Tory claims that he had been incautious, had met his forecasts for growth which was 2.3 per cent last year. |
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| Definitions of words like pension, oats, politics, Whig and Tory were coloured by personal prejudice. |
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| The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result. |
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| On some Tory blog's comment section this is a cue for speculating about personal hygiene of and body hair on greenies. |
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| In a personal letter to voters, the Tory leader has asked them to send application forms to a national party centre in Dartford, Kent. |
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| For another, it entirely ignores the question of how many people who voted Tory last time are going Lib Dem this time. |
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| Lord Dundee, a hereditary peer and former Tory whip in the upper chamber, is also Hereditary Royal Banner Bearer for Scotland. |
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| As it turned out he wasn't a closet Bolshevik at all, rather a secret Tory with a clever eye for career advancement. |
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| Does anyone think he is beginning to sound a bit like a swivel-eyed old-school Tory zealot? |
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| Desmond's behaviour has embarrassed the Tory party, to whom he has sworn allegiance. |
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| As Tory opened the front door, the sweet sound of Greta's piano floated through the house. |
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| I don't know who the new Tory leader will be but education will figure highly with him. |
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| Yesterday, with his critics closing in on him, the Tory leader threw that good work overboard. |
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| The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles. |
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| The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members. |
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| Tory co-chairman Liam Fox said the Attorney General had ultimately given clear and categorical advice. |
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| Though politically an old school Tory, Howard Senior came to believe the British had got it wrong. |
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| Some of what she writes might not fit the stereotyped image of a Tory MP but that is because that image is out of date. |
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| He stepped down from office in May this year, ending his second spell as Tory group leader on Doncaster Council. |
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| By the way, in case anyone is wondering, I am not happy about the Tory taking the seat. |
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| Almost the first act of the Tory council that took office in May was to stop the rebuilding of Barnet football ground. |
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| They did so as a shock election result in Spain removed from office the Tory Popular Party of Aznar. |
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| Tory found it was harder to keep calm if she was looking at Nell, and pretended to study a hangnail on her ring finger. |
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| But, with the legislation finally on the statute book yesterday, the Labour machine swiftly moved into gear to vent their anger at Tory tactics. |
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| The Tory idea stands a chance of success depending on which councillors turn up for the meeting. |
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| The outspoken Tory, a veteran of 40 years in Parliament, will stand down at the next general election. |
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| Won't we simply replace Labour numpties with more Nationalist, Liberal and Tory numpties? |
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| Any Tory or Labour leader with a poll rating of 20 per cent would be dead meat. |
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| I have come to the conclusion that the Conservative who is best placed to offer a new Tory idealism is David. |
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| It reached its height in 1710 when the Whigs impeached the Tory divine, Dr Sacheverell, for preaching the old doctrine of non-resistance. |
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| He has a star quality which is rare among politicians and almost non-existent in recent years in the Tory party. |
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| So the war of Romney Marsh is not just between Labour and Tory, or between Nimbys and people with a sense of global responsibility. |
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| The Tory party have gone from being a one nation party to being a one-issue party. |
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| In the bustle of the capital, the Tory leader's visit goes largely unnoticed. |
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| Tory shrugged into the soft green tank top and slipped quickly into her pajamas pants. |
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| Under his leadership, the Tory Party sank to unfathomed levels of unpopularity and contempt. |
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| Under the previous Tory government, it became accepted that politics was all about hypocrisy and corruption, otherwise known as sleaze. |
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| He also said that not all parents would get their first choice school, even under a Tory administration. |
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| It was a close election until the final days, when a majority of the undecideds voted Tory. |
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| Here's why, because the local right wing Tory is a shoo-in for this area of the country, voted for en-masse by the blue rinse and grey vote. |
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| One anecdote from last week neatly sums up Labour's uncertainty over how to deal with the new Tory leader. |
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| It's a nice, short word Tory, unlike Conservative, which is a bit of a mouthful. |
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| A Tory poster parodied his defence policy by showing an unarmed British soldier with his hands raised in surrender. |
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| This is a typically cowardly Tory decision and just proves what we have said all along. |
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| His oldest brother, Tory, would give him an hour's head start before following in his car. |
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| William and Ffion enter Downing Street to tumultuous Tory applause and waving of union flags. |
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| Until then, the danger is not Tory shroud-waving or Lib Dem posturing but Labour doubt. |
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| As it was, the true blue constituency was a Conservative walkover with three Tory candidates winning the three seats up for grabs. |
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| His younger brother Paul, however, has transmuted from true-blue Tory to one of Labour's boys. |
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| How long before we see him, suited and booted, addressing the Tory conference on the dangers of low-interest rates? |
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| We are clearly in the period of pre-election triangulation where New Labour again attempts to out Tory the Tories. |
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| This, to my mind, was exactly what was needed in the Tory party if they were to stand a realistic chance of being elected. |
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| The 50 per cent increase was moved by Tory group leader Coun Chris Humphries. |
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| He could be ousted from the Tory leadership within days as MPs finally prepare to move against him. |
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| The leader's long goodbye has left too many idle hands on the Tory benches and in the party at large. |
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| I guess that now they've completed their own make-over into Low Tory tosspots they obviously feel that the rest of the population should follow. |
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| Nevertheless, as has been well documented, the Tory government was very critical of the BBC's coverage of the war. |
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| The Tory philosophy of government is healthy and it is also healthy in terms of the quality of people it attracts. |
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| The poll found that the embattled Tory leader's personal rating is on the slide as his party is convulsed by fresh in-fighting. |
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| It is, after all, easy to forget that guitar-groups reached their apogee during the last years of Tory rule. |
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| Our only chance was somehow to win the support of sufficient numbers of Tory councillors. |
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| Given the Tory divisions over Europe, it is likely that a strong pro or anti thrust would split the party. |
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| Yet the media and the blogosphere have been ablaze with Tory talk of the unacceptable politicisation of the police under Labour. |
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| He signalled that tax cuts will have to come second to public service reform after he was finally confirmed as Tory leader yesterday. |
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| And the Foreign Secretary turned his fire on Tory calls for a referendum on the constitution. |
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| Tory tried to see her reflection, but the moon was waning, the stars obscured by clouds. |
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| While this has not attracted many MPs it has lured Stuart Wheeler, Tory donor, who declares for Fox today. |
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| By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides. |
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| Conversely, the monarchical tradition in Europe and Canada fostered Tory statism. |
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| Basically, the Tory MP approached the Liberals because he and his wife, Nina wanted to cross the floor and join the government. |
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| By backing a Tory amendment, the Government will split any opposition to its stance. |
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| Next week we've got the rabble that is the Tory fascists party gathering for their annual jolly. |
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| If a Tory prime minister died in office the country could not wait for months while candidates were cross-examined in village halls. |
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| They were the prototype for most Tory election addresses for the next century. |
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| This got us going and we both said that we'd rather they voted Tory than not at all, people had died to get the vote etc. |
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| The proposal comes several years after the former Tory council went back on promises to create a new youth centre in the area. |
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| Alongside the need for patriotic resistance, the preoccupations of contemporary politics are calculated to reanimate Tory instincts. |
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| Worse still, according to Phillip Johnston, is the prospect of a Tory front-bench spokesman clashing with a speaker representing a Scottish seat. |
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| A Tory life peer died recently, full of years, and there was a four-column piece about his achievements which, however, noted that. |
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| But apart from a few xenophobes on the Tory benches and a handful of 'me-too' Labour MPs in the north of England, I never found it. |
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| The Tory leader has taken out a personalised full-page newspaper advertisement to make his point. |
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| There are two main wings within the Tory Party and regardless of who wins the election contest the battle between them will continue. |
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| People here just want to get on with their lives and not bother with a toffee-nosed Tory from the south-east. |
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| Though the Tory move shows boldness of a kind, it is not the only party that is rethinking. |
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| It may however fall to Clarke to begin uniting the Tory left under Portillo. |
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| It will mean the withering on the vine of Tory opposition to UK membership of the euro. |
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| His use of novels and historical narrative were essential to his reinvention of the Tory party. |
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| The code of conduct governing ministers' behaviour was drawn up after a series of scandals involving Tory ministers. |
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| Those of us who live in the provinces wonder at the obsessive efforts of some Tory politicians to ingratiate themselves with that lobby. |
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| Endless recounts saw power shift back and forth between the Tory and Labour groups. |
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| The constituency is currently a Tory seat with a majority of 11, 238 in the last election. |
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| The guy gets heckled by a few Tory women, and it's curtains for New Labour. |
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| Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps the Tory party alive is continuing to write its suicide note. |
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| It is not the first time Tory James Gray and Labour's Tony Banks have clashed. |
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| The Tory group has stressed that the allegations do not concern any illegal activities. |
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| His speech when launching his campaign for the Tory leadership was a powerful anti-war polemic. |
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| So it could be an important part of a Tory manifesto, but not the all-important issue. |
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| The majority of Britain's traditionally Tory newspapers have fallen behind the younger and more rightist candidate. |
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| The Tory party, of course, have moaned about the expense and hinted that they might abolish Sure Start altogether. |
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| It has now become so much harder for a Tory leader to persuade a dubious electorate that his policies are practicable and viable. |
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| Thousands of homes across York are to receive a pre-election video from the city's Tory candidate in the May poll. |
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| One of the few fascinations of present-day politics is the stark contrast between the Tory and Labour leaders. |
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| With previous Tory leaders, there was at least a rhetorical commitment to a return on the investment through tax cuts. |
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| The Tory government was legally bound to refer the bid to the monopolies and Mergers Commission. |
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| We are more used to his peevish criticism of Tory successes. |
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| It is the taint of Eton that makes him ineligible to lead the Tory Party, in the view of some who believe that counterfeiting Blairism is the road to power. |
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| Tory Euro-MPs say over-prescriptive details will make it more expensive for manufacturers to comply with the worthy goal of improving bus conditions for disabled people. |
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| Others decided to spill the beans about the 25 Tory tea-room plotters. |
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| During our interview, Tory rode the middle on most issues, qualifying his policy statements with casualness and indifference when questioned point-blank. |
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| Yet their attitude to the poor, if condescending, was generous, and echoes of Young England survived as elements in Disraeli's later vision of Tory democracy. |
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| He was the first Tory leader to be elected as party head, rather than emerge from a mysterious process of selection by the circle of aristocratic grandees. |
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| On a walkabout in Brent East, he accused Mr Blair of insulting the intelligence of electors by warning that voting Lib Dem would produce a Tory government. |
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| Some may or may not agree with his right-wing views, but they will wince at serious London politics treated by the Tory leadership as a celebrity Eton wall game. |
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| If Mr Horam's fate does not hinge on Tory abstainers coming out to vote this time, it could depend on how much more the Lib Dems can squeeze the 5,500-strong Labour vote. |
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| He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end. |
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| The speed of his decision to withdraw the whip reflects the determination of the Tory leader that the party should not be affected by any taint of racism. |
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| According to reports just in all of the crew have been airlifted off the Cabin Fever ship after it went aground on the rugged rocks of Tory island. |
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| The humble-sounding Tory leader, in his keynote speech to the party conference in Bournemouth, pledged to make accountability his watchword and said they could deliver. |
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| The Liberal Democrats held them off in Torbay, which had been the most marginal seat in the country, and Labour retained Putney, in south west London, another key Tory target. |
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| He supported William of Orange, though, as a Tory, he favoured a regency. |
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| Labour's most memorable poster during its campaign was one of Tory leader William Hague, with his normally bald head sporting Margaret Thatcher's stiffly lacquered hairdo. |
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| It made me realise I'm living in a nest of privileged Tory vipers! |
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| What the devolutionists failed to acknowledge was that, on almost as many occasions, England voted Tory but had a Labour government forced on it by the Scots. |
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| Yet it might provide the foundation for a revival in Tory fortunes. |
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| However, it was probably his religious credentials that led to him becoming the only Tory MP to have been both knighted and created a life peer by Labour. |
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| Boris Johnson, the Tory MP for Henley, last night paid tribute to Mr Langford, whom he knew through his work for the town's Round Table fundraisers. |
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| In 1945 he won the safe Tory parliamentary seat of Chislehurst for Labour. |
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| Her principles, her prejudices, her confrontational style divided British society and still splits parts of the Tory Party. |
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| Hague and Portillo were the young Turks of the latter Tory years. |
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| His natural gift for writing led him to enjoy hurling savage personal abuse at his Tory opponents, but he was not pleased when his attacks were returned with interest. |
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| Curwen's Act of 1809 making it illegal to sell seats in parliament was passed at a time of so-called Tory dislike of anything savouring of reform. |
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| And on the back of his authority's top-rating, East Riding Tory leader Stephen Parnaby last night tore into Mr Clarke for misrepresenting the authority. |
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| Well, I don't think we should aggravate the woes of the NHS with thousands of Tory thrusters queueing up for speech therapy and gender reassignment. |
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| Mr Maude was tieless, as all Tory hopefuls have to be these days. |
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| It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole. |
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| The debate on the Maastricht Treaty tore apart the last Tory government. |
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| There is a grain of truth here, but we are all now too conscious of middle-class socialists, Tory workers, and the like, to pursue this line uncritically. |
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| He describes himself as a long-time Tory supporter who was in favour of the merger last year of the Conservatives with their often bitter right-wing rivals the Alliance. |
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| Unlike most other party youth wings, none of these various Tory youth brigades was ever officially affiliated to the party either the Alliance or now the Conservatives. |
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| The collapse of Toryism in Scotland has rendered many of these differences irrelevant but it's still the case that my middle-class Tory friends tend to be Rangers supporters. |
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| The map is mostly blue for Tory, after the last national election, when the Conservatives gained. |
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| Of the 59 MPs elected to represent Scotland in the current U.K. Parliament, only one is a Tory. |
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| In return, the political establishment, be it Labour or Tory, has only asked for more. |
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| There must be some lessons we can take from the past eight years of mean-spirited misrule in Ontario, but right now we're just ecstatic to see the back of the Tory government. |
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| And I guess progress has been made when a leading Tory feels he should announce that he will make appointments in proportion to the ethnic mix of London. |
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| Will this new promise bring back Tory defectors to the fold? |
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| Even under Tory rule, no reasonable person disputed their right of entry. |
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| Hogg was no ordinary Tory minister, however undistinguished his career. |
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| Despite what the LibDems will tell you, Ryedale is unshakeably Tory. |
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| It was either the decisive moment of the Tory leadership election campaign or the last hurrah of a politician shortly destined to join the nearly men of British politics. |
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| The Bamfords have stopped contributing directly to the Tory party, although free helicopter and plane rides fall into the bracket of payments in kind. |
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| The Tory revolutionary was so punctilious and respectful of her monarch it was almost embarrassing. |
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| As a Tory woman I'm instinctively suspicious of positive discrimination. |
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| How does that square with the Tory belief in self-determination? |
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| But the idea has struck the wrong note with a leading Tory councillor. |
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| The last election proved this to be the case, namely that the main plank of the Tory campaign, Europe, most of the public didn't give a stuff about, relatively speaking. |
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| They brand is working to reposition themselves to contend with lifestyle giants like Michael Kors and Tory Burch. |
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| The campaign, organised by Lechlade farmer Charles Mann, will involve canvassing voters on doorsteps, distributing leaflets and putting up Tory posters. |
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| Previous old Labour governments had neither the clout nor the guts nor the majority to have a crack at their traditional hate-figure of the rural Tory. |
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| Unlike the Tory spy at the Lib Dems, who was evicted after passing himself off as an activist, omitting to mention that his activities were on behalf of the Conservatives. |
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| This is an area that includes Tory heartlands and very rundown areas. |
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| An orotund Tory in pinstripes boomed out that he never expected to see the day when he would stand shoulder to shoulder with Tatchell and cry revolution. |
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| In a statement outside Conservative central office, the outgoing Tory leader said that the name of his successor would be announced in a simple statement tomorrow afternoon. |
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| Those who made it to the hall, more traditional Tory types with a fierce sense of duty, heard what they wanted to hear and departed in high spirits. |
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| The battle for the Tory leadership may be hotting up but it appears as if there is still all to play for following the elections hustings in Yorkshire last night. |
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| The big man parleyed the advent of a new hyphenated Tory into a week off. |
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| Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate. |
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| He afterwards commanded with distinction in the War of the Spanish Succession, though he conceived a lasting hatred of the duke of Marlborough, much to Tory delight. |
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| First out of the blocks in the Tory leadership race, he leads the field. |
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| Before the fall of the Tory government, Swift hoped that his services would be rewarded with a church appointment in England. |
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| Scott, very much a Unionist and Tory, was at the same time a great populariser of Scottish mythology through his writings. |
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| He first entered the House of Commons in 1832, beginning his political career in the Conservative Party as a High Tory. |
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| At university Gladstone was a Tory and denounced Whig proposals for parliamentary reform. |
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| Joe Clark returned as leader, but the schism with the Reformers effectively watered down the combined Blue and Red Tory vote in Canada. |
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| Maude was a moderniser before modernity dawned in the Tory ranks, a Cameroon before David Cameron. |
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| If you want a ditherer for PM then vote Tory, if you want a Margaret Thatcher for PM then vote UKIP, but if you want sanity then vote Labour. |
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| The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory. |
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| Indeed, when the Lords voted on the second reading of the bill after a memorable series of debates, many Tory peers did refrain from voting. |
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| David Davis, a former Tory leadership contender, said tax credit cuts could be as damaging as the poll tax was to Thatcher's party. |
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| Former Tory high-flier Michael Portillo has been lined up to speak at the annual dinner of Cardiff Chamber of Commerce. |
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| Lord North held the post of Prime Minister with a Tory majority backing him, advocating military suppression of the American rebellion. |
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| The list of fresh Tory peers includes tycoons, investment bankers, Hooray Henries and Lord Snootys. |
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| Since early in the 18th century, Tory had described those upholding the right of the King over Parliament. |
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| During the Exclusion Crisis, the word Tory was applied in Kingdom of England as a nickname to the opponents of the bill, called the Abhorrers. |
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| Threatened with votes of no confidence, on March 20 Lord North resigned and his Tory government was replaced by the Whigs. |
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| He was elected to the exclusively Tory Carlton Club in 1836, and was also taken up by the party's leading hostess, Lady Londonderry. |
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| Historically, the term Tory has been applied in various ways to loyalists of the British monarchy. |
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| He effectively defended Lord Godolphin against Tory attacks in parliamentary debate, as well as in the press. |
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| Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. |
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| Tory eugenicists want only the well-heeled to be able to afford three or more children. |
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| I sincerely hope it was a blip and protest vote, even the Tory party is more decent. |
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| Tory Euro-sceptics destroyed John Major's government and now seem intent on destroying Cameron. |
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| In Britain, the Tory political faction originated with the Cavaliers during the English Civil War. |
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| Whoever you vote for amongst these parties, one or a combination of two of these identikit parties will carry on with the same Tory policies. |
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| He was the Tory Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1695, and in 1718 became Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
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| Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists. |
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| I enjoyed the company of Jacques Delors, later to become a demon federast in the eyes of the Tory Right, rather more. |
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| Indeed, the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars had not been forgotten by the Tory spirited and deeply conservative girls. |
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| Bentham was born in Houndsditch, London, to a wealthy family that supported the Tory party. |
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| Also on the board are Tory MPs Virginia Bottomley and Richard Shepherd, as well as Lord Saatchi and Lady Howe. |
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| Michael Fabricant, Tory MP for Lichfield, Staffordshire, was diagnosed with TWO types of skin cancer just before the general election in May. |
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| The appeals came as three Tory MPs were ordered to resign from the right-wing Monday Club. |
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| Then-prime minister John Major, clambered onto his soapbox in an attempt to win votes for his latest Tory campaign. |
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| In Parliament in 1944 Tory MP Simon Wing fiel-Digby snootily tackled Winston Churchill about the secret missions. |
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| Nor was it all a reprise of the Revolution of 1776 with Federalists in Tory roles as Anglophiles, aristocrats, or monocrats. |
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| Any of these and the order from the moronic Tory council is to leave the bin unemptied. |
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| Princess Diana angrily slaps down Tory critics of her anti-landmine crusade in a remarkable TV documentary tonight. |
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| The Tory poll lead was just one point in Castle Point, three points in Boston and Skegness and six points in South Basildon and East Thurrock. |
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| The earnings disregard rule of the mid 1980s is another tightfisted policy stuck in a Tory time warp. |
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| New Labour governed for 13 years because their Tory policies suited middle England. |
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| Yet he had no qualms about sacking Tory Deputy Chairman Howard Flight, who spilled the beans about the Tories' secret agenda to cut spending. |
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| Tory Mr Herbert suggested chief constables should stop moaning on the TV and get on with the job of making savings. |
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| Thus, the creation of a rival institution represented a Tory response to reassert the educational values of The Establishment. |
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| The man who has been appointed Her Majesty's Oposition spokesman on Scottish Affairs in the Commons is not your typical Tory chinless wonder. |
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| On Tuesday, Torontonians welcomed their 65th mayor, 60-year-old John Tory, who succeeds the colorful and controversial Rob Ford. |
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| Tory council leader Ken Taylor has promised it won't mean they'll sell off the neoGothic Council House, which is a Grade One listed building. |
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| Trade union bosses said the figures marked the end of Tory triumphalism on the economy. |
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| Whigs rejected the Tory appeals to governmental authority and social discipline, and extended political discussion beyond Parliament. |
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| When the majority of Tory Lords proposed to acclaim her as sole ruler, William threatened to leave the country immediately. |
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| George was also perceived as favouring Tory ministers, which led to his denunciation by the Whigs as an autocrat. |
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| In May 1762, the incumbent Whig government of the Duke of Newcastle was replaced with one led by the Scottish Tory Lord Bute. |
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| The British Tory press has depicted Napoleon as much smaller than average height before, and that image persisted. |
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| As MPs prepared to divide, Gladstone rose to his feet and began an angry speech, despite the efforts of Tory MPs to shout him down. |
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| Derby dissolved Parliament, and the ensuing general election resulted in modest Tory gains, but not enough to control the Commons. |
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| Indeed initially they were both loyal to the Tory party, the Church and the landed interest. |
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| This approach worked well as long as Parliament was also predominantly Tory. |
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| The old established form of English and, after the Act of Union, British conservatism, was the Tory Party. |
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| He entered Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party, holding strong protectionist Tory views and opposed to free trade. |
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| As a political conservative, Scott helped to found the Tory Quarterly Review, a review journal to which he made several anonymous contributions. |
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| Much like his father, Stevenson remained a staunch Tory for most of his life. |
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| Hume was considered a Tory historian, and emphasised religious differences more than constitutional issues. |
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| The party is informally known as the Scottish Tories, due to the Conservative Party's historic links with the Tory Party. |
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| The publication of Roger Tory Peterson's field guide in 1934 led to the initial increase in birding. |
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| Johnson was succeeded in the presidency by Myles Cooper, a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, and an ardent Tory. |
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| In the House of Commons, the Tory majority was unassailable, but the same was not true in the House of Lords. |
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| Fearing serious social unrest, large numbers of Tory MPs rebelled in a vote on governmental expenses. |
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| Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all. |
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| The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. |
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| Tory Stewart Jackson tried to make a citizen's arrest on Saturday after seeing a man smash bus shelter glass with a bottle. |
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| One explanation is that bolshie Labour supporters are far louder than shier Tory voters when it comes to proclaiming their allegiances. |
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| However, under the early Hanoverians, both the High Church and Tory parties were once again out of favour. |
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| Mr Johnson is the first senior Tory to break ranks with the PM's line that the UK cannot join Assad due to his human rights record. |
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| Writers from within the genre and outside it complain about Tolkien's Tory medievalism, as they denigrate his archaizing style. |
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| Theresa May, Boris Johnson and events stand in the way but Osborne has improved his standing with the Tory party selectorate. |
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| Cameron would vote for bloodsports in a free vote but tells Tory MPs to stay in the undergrowth. |
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| Black Rod left to summon MPs from the Commons, who filed in led by Mr Brown and Tory chief David Cameron. |
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| Yet, even here, Tory dogma is about moving the debate rightwards and picking off vulnerable groups while leaving pensioner benefits untouched. |
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| Nick Bailey On the duck cull I'd cull the Tory cabinet, starting with Ian Duncan Smith and leave the ruddy ducks alone. |
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| A BLITZ on illegal loan sharks is under threat due to more Tory spending cuts. |
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| You see, 25oK would buy a lot of stabling and saddle soap and I'm not sure spending it on dinner with Tory boy is a wise investment. |
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