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Conservative party

noun

  1. a political party in Great Britain founded about 1832 as successor to the Tory party and characterized by moderate progressivism.



Conservative Party

noun

  1. In full: Conservative and Unionist Party.(in Britain) the major right-wing party, which developed from the Tories in the 1830s. It advocates a mixed economy, and encourages property owning and free enterprise

  2. (in Canada) short for Progressive Conservative Party

  3. (in other countries) any of various political parties generally opposing change

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Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has called it a "tiny tariff deal".

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Mr Stein told the court the commission's investigation was launched into "politicians and employees of the Conservative Party, and a former police officer... who had placed bets on the date of the 2024 general election with the benefit of confidential or insider information as to when that date might be".

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Addressing the Scottish Conservative party conference in Edinburgh, Badenoch said the tax - known as Energy Profits Levy - should be scrapped before its current 2030 expiration.

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A spokesman for Truss, who lost her seat in last year's general election, confirmed she was still a Conservative Party member.

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The commission is due to report back at the Conservative Party's annual conference in the autumn.

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