Reaching back into the 19th Century the Conservatives and the Liberals - the forerunners of today's Liberal Democrats - are ...
Badenoch (pronounced BADE-enock) defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the ...
His party was also sharply divided ... single issue of the Reform Act - an unprecedented event in British political history. The Whigs won the election and passed the bill, but the House of ...
LONDON (AP) — The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken — and that she's the one ...
“There are a lot of people who feel very strongly in their political beliefs, and we fully support that … but we want to diverge from the trend overall in the nation,” Whig Party Chair Sophia Burnston ...
British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, ...
Protesting in public is one of the staples of Left-wing culture. Whereas the phrase “Right-wing demonstrators” seems ...
The only politician of note to have any facial hair at all in the mid-18th century was the Whig MP Charles James ... first bearded man to lead a British political party since Keir Hardie resigned ...
But we should also remember Harrison and the election of 1840 for what they can teach us about how the two-party system works, and doesn’t. Harrison was the first of only two Whigs ever elected ...
Tory Democracy is a political ideology that emerged within ... Elements of the British Conservative Party recognized this, jolted to reality by the vote to leave the European Union.
The country party conceived of “corruption” as self-dealing by political insiders ... a colorful 18th-century British statesman named Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke.