Displayed reverence for order and property, showed antipathy to revolutionary change, extolled tradition, endorsed society comprised of small communities, Organicism, experience, and defended paternalistic, aristocratic rule.
‘Change to conserve’- avert the spread of revolutionary ideas by embracing moderate reform in the name of continuity based on empiricism.
Great Reform Act 1832 ensured representation at Westminster for the new industrial towns, supported by Peel.
If interests of newly enriched were not integrated into poltical stature, there was danger of them being lost to property-less forces with no will for evolution.