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1750
1830
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The name Conservative was first used as a description of the party by John Wilson Croker writing in the Quarterly Review in 1830
1982
2000
2010
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2015
In 2015 Cameron formed a majority party,
2016
2016, after his resignation Theresa May called for a second general election and formed a coalition government with the Northern Irish D.U.P.
In 2005, under former home secretary Michael Howard, the Conservatives won some 30 additional seats in the House of Commons but remained well shy of a parliamentary majority.
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1832
1834
1846
The party split over the repeal of protectionist regulations known as the Corn Laws, and for most of the next 30 years they were out of government.
1886
1920's
May 1940
Neville Chamberlain, was forced from office in May 1940 by his own backbenchers because of his poor leadership in the early months of World War II. Chamberlain was replaced by another Conservative, Winston Churchill, who formed a coalition government with the Labour Party.
1979
Thatcherism: Thatcher tries to privatize several industries, sell 1.5 million council houses to their tenants
In 1922 Conservative back benchers forced the party’s withdrawal from the coalition and thereby precipitated the resignation of party leader Austen Chamberlain.
Baldwin emerged as a popular figure and the architect of what he called the “new Conservatism,” an attempt to appeal to the middle class through a modest movement away from the laissez-faireeconomic policies that the party had advocated since 1918.
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The first Conservative government was formed by Sir Robert Peel, whose program, set out in the Tamworth Manifesto(1834)
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