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But these events are, at the least, misguided and offensive, and it is painful to see squirming senior Tories trying to argue otherwise.

But in a shift of position for the Tories, Cameron said the merger had been a mistake, even though he voted for it only four months ago.

Moulton insisted that he did not seek or receive any benefits from the Tories as a result of his financial largesse.

Those with a passing interest in history recall how the last time the Tories lured them into government the party was consigned to oblivion.

Interestingly, the Tories seem to be flirting with rather similar ideas, at least when it comes to the question of housing.

It had become obvious from quite early in the Campaign that the Labour Party did not pose a serious threat to the Tories.

Another worry is that voters are not sure how much the Tories have really changed under Mr Cameron.

But he added that despite the Tories' desire to see the scope of the BBC reduced there was no appetite to mortally damage the corporation.

I was determined that there would be no damage, but I wanted the Tories to worry about it for a while.

But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.

There was a period when it almost looked as if the Tories could no longer afford to.

If the Tories win the impending general election, he said, there will not be a plebiscite of any kind on Europe.

The British commander sent out a party of Tories and Indians to capture the general.

Class matters less: the fact that the Tories are gaining popularity led by an Old Etonian is, strangely, a sign of progress.

The Tories, not surprisingly, say that Mr Brown's account of the economy's trajectory is wrong and that his stimulus has flopped.

Until the next election, only the Tories and Lib Dems, between them, have a hope of forming a stable government.

A year ago the Tories had a double-digit lead over a ragged and squabbling Labour Party. The election seemed theirs for the losing.

The Tories would like to install elected police commissioners, but are squabbling internally about how much power to give them.

If that deadline is missed, the matter is likely to fall to the Tories.

These may have been driven more by the need to soften the Tories' image than by his own sentiments.

The Tories have so far resisted calls to pledge tax cuts, saying the recession makes such a pledge implausible.

He also defends Mr Cameron's decision to leave the EPP, saying that the group's relationship with Britain's Tories was never satisfactory.

The Conservatives' treasurer Michael Spencer, recently said the Tories "cherish the City" .

The Tories inherited such a massive budget deficit (11% of GDP) that there was little political upside in postponing the pain.

On balance, the Tories are probably right to return day-to-day supervision to the Bank of England.

For the Tories, it offers a way to discuss reducing spending without sounding as if they are merely the mouthpiece of the wealthy.

Such a package would mean that the Tories, in particular, had to jettison pledges, notably over pensioner freebies.

These tories have mang profound insight, but most of them did not deeply analytical the back factors that rights of status variety.

The more active the local Tories are, the more the "folklore of the terrible years of Thatcher is fading" , says Mr Bebb.

The idea of Tories wooing visible minority votes would have seemed unlikely before they took office a year ago.

The Tories did not control who sat with them in the EPP; in founding a new group, they invite closer scrutiny of their allies.

The admission shows the depth of worry among the Tories over the state of the economy.

But she turned out to be a vitriolic Tory-hater ( "I remember what the Tories did in the '80s. . . " ).

The Tories are only a few percentage points ahead in a race that many think they should be cruising.

It worries me, that man. The Tories have got to find a way to save the country from him!

"We're trying to re-emphasise where they [the Tories] came from, " he says.

When he was at last ennobled in 2000, the Tories gave assurances that he would become resident in Britain for tax purposes.

But as an indication of the Tories' direction of travel, more detailed than anything either main party has produced until now, it is enough.

Converting this debate into a contest between honesty and dishonesty, as the Tories want to, may be their best tactic.

The Tories supported the bank bail-out in 2008, he notes.

At the end of the day, said one Lib Dem negotiator, the Tories were "the only game in town" .

Keeping the records of those who have done nothing wrong undermines the traditional presumption of innocence, the Tories say.

Many Tories would also be happy to see a climbdown, which seems likely.

Senior Tories told the Guardian that Cameron would set out his thinking in the coming weeks.

Mr Davis has been tipped for a return to frontline politics if the Tories win the general election.

The bias against the Tories will be less this year, as most constituencies in England and Wales have had their boundaries redrawn.

Finally, Mr Milburn's appointment also suggests a weakness on the coalition's part, or at least the Tories'.

Some university dormi- tories are now full of modern conveniences of every sort.

BEFORE the economy fell apart, it was Britain's society that was supposed to be in terminal decline , especially in the eyes of the Tories .

Many Tories believe they would have won the general election outright had Mr Coulson run the campaign himself.

The Tories are saying some of the right things, notably over the need for a new economic model, based on higher investment and savings.

Both Labour and the Tories are likely to support the move, though they are wary of saying so in the run-up to the election.

The Tories would allow charities, churches and groups of parents to open schools, even where existing ones have plenty of capacity.

Off-licences have had an easier ride and are now in the sights of the Tories.

The Tories will have to supply a more comprehensive prospectus than they have so far.

Both the Tories and the current leaders of the EU need to start paying a little more attention to what each other is up to.

Brown yesterday used his appearance at the summit to launch a strong attack on the Tories' approach to Europe.

Secondly, good abstinence treatment is intensive and expensive, and the Tories seem not to be putting in more money.

That has opened space for the Lib Dems (who have done well, grabbing control of many urban councils) and the Tories.

The Tories entered the campaign with a lead of up to 21% in early polling.

The future father of his country once proposed shooting a few Tories to "strike terror into the others" .

Mr Saha's new media unit is one of the best-funded teams in the Tories' headquarters.

The coalition is cutting the fiscal deficit as aggressively as the Tories could have wished if they were governing alone.

There has even been talk of a bill to reverse some of Labour's counter-terrorism measures should the Tories win power.

Many Tories think they would have won a majority in Parliament with a more bread-and-butter campaign.

The Conservatives' autumn conference in Birmingham had been intended to soothe these disgruntled Tories.

The Tories' once-commanding lead in the polls has narrowed in recent weeks and there is now a real contest for power.

The Tories talk up the cost savings that could be generated by publishing government spending data online.

But as the Tories want immediate cuts, it is hard to see how they could win Mr Clegg's support for their planned budget this summer.

The party used to stress areas of agreement with the Tories; it now highlights points of departure.

The fault-line also runs between Conservatives and other Conservatives, and between the Tories as a whole and the Liberal Democrats.

The Tories, the likely winners, want to return bank supervision to the Bank of England.

It helps that, as part of their deal with the Liberal Democrats, the Tories ditched their quixotic bid to repatriate powers from the EU.

If nothing else, she will have to deal with several influential senior Tories who are determined to moderate her more radical views.

My grandma loves the Royals, but she hates the Tories, and I think she's pretty typical.

If he grasps it, that will put pressure on the Tories to come clean about just how they would reduce spending.

The Tories' line since has been that, should the treaty come into force before they took office, they would "not let matters rest" .

If he decides in favour, the government is likely to stay and may deploy more troops, with the backing of the Tories.

Tories close to the leadership insist that Mr Cameron is willing to stake everything on the economy.

After all, careful explanations from Mr Osborne convinced most Tories that Ireland's collapse was not in British interests.

The Lib Dems and the Tories both talk of a clearer, fairer "pupil premium" : extra per-capita cash for schools that take poor children.

Moreover, all the signs are that the new intake of backbench Tories will be bursting for a row over Europe.

Such solidarity is not as evident among Tories or Liberal Democrats, as defenestrated leaders of both those parties will attest.

The Tories' relative honesty over the coming fiscal squeeze will help and hinder them in roughly equal measure.

This has resulted, paradoxically, in his being labelled by pundits "too consumed by appearance" , a slight the Tories are eager to deflect.

For the Tories, for the Lib Dems and for Britain, it's a good deal.

At the time he was writing, new inventions in fac tories were turning out wealth on a scale undreamt of by previous generations.

In Britain, the Conservative Party is often called the Tories , which was their old name.

The Tories will not be able to plead ignorance.

This "differentiation" began when Mr Clegg seized an unmissable chance to rough up the Tories over a botched health reform.

The Tories will not be able to plead ignorance.

This "differentiation" began when Mr Clegg seized an unmissable chance to rough up the Tories over a botched health reform.

Chris Bryant, the Europe Minister, said it was unpatriotic of the Tories to oppose a British president of Europe.

The common sense of senior Tories should spare Mr Bercow from a putsch but he will be watched more closely than any recent speaker.

Just five years ago the notion that Wired, a trendy technology magazine, would laud the Tories as online pioneers would have been fanciful.

But the incumbent is standing down, and polls suggest a fight between the Tories and the Greens.

But it also exposed the Tories to charges that they would destroy a feeble recovery if they moved too fast to mend the public finances.

But Mr Blair instinctively understood the aspirational voters of Middle England, and enjoyed outmanoeuvring the Tories, says Lord Mandelson.

This worked beautifully for Stanley Baldwin in the teeth of the Great Depression, effectively putting the Tories in power for 14 years.

The Tories need to make huge gains to win a parliamentary majority at the next general election, but they are making inroads.

The Tories need to make huge gains to win a parliamentary majority at the next general election, but they are making inroads.

In Britain the Tories spent months before they were elected preparing the public for austerity.

Sharp accusations of deceit have been levelled against Gordon Brown, by some Tories and assorted columnists .

More Lib Dem target seats are held by the Tories than by Labour, so tactical voting is likely to damage the former more.

His political goal is to open "clear red water" between Labour and Tories.

Labour's assessment of the Tories as lightweight and meaningless is quite wrong.

There were suggestions that some local Tories refused to vote for a black candidate.

He endorsed Green's challenge to Cameron and the Tories to hold a referendum on Britain's future in Europe.

The Tories scent victory. A swing of less than 6% from Labour would bring them their first East End seat in almost a century.

For the Tories, whatever their hopes in the short term in Wales and Scotland, the longer-term outlook may be grim.

For the Tories, whatever their hopes in the short term in Wales and Scotland, the longer-term outlook may be grim.

He may also have learned from the Tories' unexpected triumph in 1992, an election held after the worst of a recession was over.

The Tories may point out that the unexpectedly suicidal economic policy in the euro zone, Britain's main market, is hardly their fault.

Thatcher shares a fear widespread among Tories that in pursuing SALT Carter has lost sight of the global Soviet threat.

Though the Tories think NATO sacrosanct, the Americans are increasingly relaxed about military co-operation within Europe.

If Mr Brown starts telling the unvarnished truth, the Tories will have to work a lot harder to win the election.

By instinct, Mr Cameron is not as far from Mr Blair as some Tories might wish.

But most structures had one thing in common with the hubbing system: they involved locally stored in ven- tories on the suppliers' books.

Maurice Glasman, a thinker and community organiser who fascinates some Tories around Mr Cameron, reputedly had a hand in the speech.

The Tories will quickly pass an emergency budget, which will go a small way towards fulfilling their vow to right Britain's public finances.

Besides, the present ideological quarrels between Tories, Labourites and Liberal Democrats pale into insignificance next to America's.

After a while, the Tories realised that their obsession with Europe was not shared by the electorate.

In later polls the Tories did better, but the prospect of a political upset has hurt sterling.

Some of this is a calculated wooing of left-leaning voters who deserted the Lib Dems in protest at their collaboration with the Tories.

The Tories' social policies, especially their opposition to same-sex marriage, could help win over ethnic groups with similar views.

In suggesting that the rot runs right through society, the Tories fail to pinpoint the areas where genuine crises persist.

Some MPs want ambassadorial appointments to be opened to seat-less Tories.

Their team has conjured up a couple of decent slogans; the Tories are still groping for theirs.

If he does this, especially if the economy recovers, he will have a chance against the Tories.

In both cases, the Tories may have subordinated sensible economic thinking to political positioning.

The Tories, superficially, appear in better shape, but there is little evidence that, so long denied power, they will prove competent.

Why did the Tories ever allow social questions to be colonised by socialism?

So proposing cuts may hurt the Tories less in the next election than in previous ones.

But many Tories worry that Lib Dems who dislike the coalition might push for an exit once they have secured the prize of AV.

The Tories and the Liberal Democrats are fleshing out the civil libertarianism they promised in opposition.

But that does not mean it has become easier for the Tories to win a majority.

Mr Cameron set out to rebrand the Tories as kinder and greener. It worked.

But the Tories have now clearly given warning that they intend to be radical.

You can go through this list, adding asterisks and footnotes: on the economy, not enough credit goes to the Tories who came before Mr.

If the Tories stand firm, free schools could be in Britain to stay.

The Tories' unexpected weakness may yet haunt Labour: what if the party had ditched Gordon Brown?

His Tories remain in the lead, but the limelight belongs to a third party, the Liberal Democrats.

Looking back, Tories should be mortified by their slowness in taking New Labour seriously.

Many Tories favor recognition of the new biracial government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa.

Nationwide, for various reasons, that change will probably favour the Tories more than other parties.

The Tories cried plagiarism, with justification, but avenged the policy theft by stealing personnel.

The chancellor clocked that the Tories needed to soften their right-wing image long before Mr Cameron did.

So to find allies who share their Euroscepticism, Tories have to seek out populists and angry nationalists.

Some Tories wonder why Labour politicians do not make the case for their ethical achievements.

It will be extremely hard for the Tories to win a second election after eight months of agonising austerity.

But he knows that many Lib Dem activists are instinctively opposed to collaboration with the Tories.

He argues that the Tories will always be seen as the party of privilege.

That is not to say, as some lazy pundits do, that Mr Cameron's Tories have few or no policies.

But the Tories are unlikely to reverse a policy that has wide support in their south-east heartland and the backing of most newspapers.

This seems good news for Labour, which won these voters back from the Tories by respecting their economic aspirations.

But, whatever happens, the Tories have got a headstart over Labour today.

Over to the Tories , who have ideas of their own about sharing costs between individuals and the state.

If the Tories lack the stomach for such measures, they will have to swallow their pride and raise taxes.

Party workers refer to the wavering voters whom he managed to retain as "Taylor Tories" .

Of the candidates in the Tories' 220 target seats, only a quarter were on the original A-list.

Part of the Tories' plan for fixing the finances involves a fiscal version of the show.

Lib Dem ministers rage about the "calculating" and "ruthless" Tories, who in turn resent the sops required to soothe the other side.

Daniel Finkelstein, the newspaper columnist most plugged-in to senior Tories, followed him.

If the Tories are to be judged on whether they have a theory of everything, they look like failing the test.

Europe can never die: Euroscepticism is too essential an element of too many Tories' Conservatism.

Prime minister's new year address comes as Tories signal tax cuts and bishops question government's 'morality'

That might simply sound like ensuring a level playing field, but for some market-minded Tories it signals a retreat.

For all the grumbling on the Conservative right, there are few obvious places for ambitious Tories to go.

Some of the Tories' younger back room boys are worth watching too.

What aspect? All of it, she says. "I just hate the Tories. "

More surprising, the Tories have taken a liberal view, opposing prolonged detention.

The Tories will want to set a lower target for the deficit and to get started earlier than Labour, whose plan essentially starts in 2011.

The Tories were those who supported hereditary monarchy and were reluctant to remove kings.

The Tories have fought unpopular closures, but may have to allow them if they win.

Angry ex-Lib Dems wanted redder meat: proof that Mr Clegg was stopping wicked Tories from doing wicked things.

The Tories were also slow to ditch their boom-time pledge to share revenue between tax cuts and public spending.

Both the Tories and their Liberal Democratic appendage have plummeted in the opinion polls.

Both Labour and the Tories would use the payments system of the internal market to reward quality and penalise poor care.

Even so this is an advance on the earlier pretence that Labour, unlike the Tories, was not poised to slam the brakes on spending.

The government, the Tories charge, has focused on those close to the poverty line and ignored the most desperate.

Two of the Tories' obstinacies look especially worrying.

Two opinion polls published today show support for the Tories still ahead of Labour.

The Tories want no change, the Lib Dems are campaigning for a Yes.

and they overlap on ideology (mainly, how active the state should be), with Britain's Tories to the right of America's Democrats.

Ditto the private doubts held by some senior Tories about their party's right-on stance on civil liberties.

The entrepreneurial classes are now surely the Tories' for the taking.

a political party in Great Britain which developed from the Tories in the 1830s; advocates a mixed economy and encourages property owning.

Granted, the Tories pledged before the election to maintain spending on the popular National Health Service.

The Tories supported most of Labour's spending plans; scarcely anyone foresaw the credit crunch.

All the same, the Tories' vitriolic opposition to Mr Blair risks looking petty and even unpatriotic.

Tories hate higher taxes, Lib Dems anything that smacks of xenophobia. Their respective bases cancel each other out.

Mr Cameron held a similar review on becoming Conservative leader in 2005. But the political logic for the Tories was clearer.

Recent polls still put the Tories ahead of Labour, but often by smaller margins.

Mr Flight was axed after saying the Tories could make bigger spending cuts than they had publicly declared.

A new government may have different ideas, though the Tories are not without their own splits on the issue.

It has worked. The Tories are now as trusted as Labour on health.

The revelations put pressure on the Tories to spell out how they would restrain pay in the corporation.

Why should Tories employ terminology derived from Jacobin jargon?

The Tories' clean sweep of county councils hid a diminished share of the vote.

Welsh Tories grumble that breakfast is the responsibility of parents.

Millions of public-sector workers, even if they know cuts are coming, may trust Labour to lower the axe more gently than the Tories.

There are plenty of anecdotal signs of change: Britain ' s pro - business Tories have turned green; Al Gore is back in fashion in America.

The Tories would set up an independent Office for Budget Responsibility to keep the chancellor's feet to the fiscal fire.

With their elastic principles, the Tories will probably adapt to this evolving landscape.

Business leaders and Tories complain that ministers have set their sights too low.

The Tories failed to secure a single Westminster seat in 1997, and hold only one today.

The opinion polls provide both the opportunity and the motive for the Tories' move.

Indeed, we've written about the Christian influence on communitarian Tories before.

Unfortunately, the Tories seem hasty as well as timid.

Although the Tories want to make changes, they will be in the direction favoured by Tony Blair of fostering competition to improve service.

A Pakistani-born member of Parliament crossed the floor to the Tories last month.

But as the Tories' poll lead has shrunk, Mr Osborne has changed tack.

Now it is the Tories who have thoughtful ideas about getting more good school places through supply-side reforms.

This will set a new baseline against which the Tories will have to find extra economies.

The risky part concerns what the Tories might do if the treaty comes into effect before they assume power.

Tories misunderstand the Swiss-EU deal: Switzerland gets to be a free rider because it is small.

The deficit threatens Britain's credit rating and even (some Tories add) a full-blown Greek-style fiscal crisis.

Oddly, the Tories may not gain all they hope from redrawn constituencies in any event.

Loyal, ideologically sound and personable, Mr Alexander's promotion will suit Mr Clegg and some Tories.

Some senior Tories seem determined to force the pace of reform.

Though hardly fond of Labour, these days he is more of a threat to the Tories.

First, far fewer seats these days are close contests between Labour and the Tories.

Many Tories, who sense a liberal-left slant at the BBC, want a tougher line.

Under Mr Cameron, the Tories have broadened their funding base.

Mr Brown struggled with Middle England, and longed to crush the Tories.

Polls in January showed the Tories leading Labour by five to seven points.

For the first time in a decade, the PCS will hold a fringe event at the Tories' annual conference next month.

It won last time with 35% of the votes cast, while the Tories got less than 24% and the Greens under 22% (twice their previous result).

This bid to depict the Tories as somehow above mere party politics was intensely personalised.

I would consider anything except animals and tories.

The "do-nothing" Tories, he maintains, were wrong on both counts.

In the last week of March, a poll of polls showed the Tories on 37% and Labour on 31%.

MPs are now on Twitter and most of them are Labour. But the Tories are using the medium more effectively, says survey.

He called it the Tories' "Big Comprehensive Offer" .

That is the kind of prison reform that Tories can live with.

It clicked in again when the voters denied the Tories a majority in May's general election.

The in-fighting is not between the Conservatives [1] and Liberal Democrats [2] but between Tories[3].

For now, the Tories' foreign policy is more distinctive than their economic ideas.

A new poll shows that Labour and the Tories are running virtually neck and neck.

When Mr Blair pitched his big tent on the centre ground of politics in 1997, he drove the Tories rightward into unelectability.

Even Wales, a Labour heartland, was lost to the Tories.

The Tories say: Labour is running up mind-boggling debts.

Will David Cameron's softer, kinder Tories do better?

The Tories could conceivably win the most votes yet have fewer seats in Parliament because of the way district boundaries are drawn.

Austerity is on the way whoever wins, though both the Tories and the Lib Dems would cut the deficit faster than Labour.

He defected from Plaid in 2001 and may even lure some Welsh-speaking farmers in the valleys to the Tories for the first time.

The Tories will also look for big savings in the welfare bill.

There will be Tories unhappy with any reliance on France.

It's a dead certainty that the Tories will be re-elected.

The first is that the Tories are probably not as ready for government as they claim.