
Strange Death of Tory England
Has the most successful species in British political history finally become extinct? The Conservative party dominated British politics for 120 years from Disraeli''s victory in 1874, culminating in an unprecedented eighteen-year spell in government after 1979. And yet at the very end of the century the Tories imploded so disastrously as to suggest the party might be doomed to follow the Liberals i...
Has the most successful species in British political history finally become extinct? The Conservative party dominated British politics for 120 years from Disraeli''s victory in 1874, culminating in an unprecedented eighteen-year spell in government after 1979. And yet at the very end of the century the Tories imploded so disastrously as to suggest the party might be doomed to follow the Liberals i...