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The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and 
Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United 
Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and 
British unionism. It is the largest party in the United Kingdom: 
being the largest single party in the House of Commons with 304 
MPs, the largest party in local government with 9,391 councillors, 
and the largest British party in the European Parliament with 25 
MEPs. It governs in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, with 
party leader David Cameron as Prime Minister. 
Colloquially referred to as the Tory Party or the Tories, the 
Conservative Party emerged in 1834 out of the original Tory 
Party, which dates to 1678. The party was one of two dominant 
parties in the 19th century, along with the Liberal Party. It 
changed its name to the Conservative and Unionist Party in 1912 
after merging with the Liberal Unionist Party, although that name 
is rarely used and it is generally referred to as simply the Conser-
vative Party. 
In the 1920s, the Liberal vote greatly diminished and the 
Labour Party became the Conservatives' main rivals. Conserva-
tive Prime Ministers led governments for 57 years of the 20th 
century, including Winston Churchill (1940–45, 1951–55) and 
Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990).
Thatcher's tenure led to wide-ranging economic liberalisa-
tion, placing the Conservatives firmly as the most free market 
and eurosceptic of the three major parties. The party was re-
turned to government in coalition, having failed to win a major-
ity, in 2010 under the more liberal leadership of David Cameron. 
 
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the 
United Kingdom, and one of the two main British political par-
ties along with the Conservative Party.
The Labour Party was founded in 1900 and overtook the 
Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming 
minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 
1929–1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 
1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clem-

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