An American scholar shows how British Conservatives welcomed universal suffrage, while German Conservatives were terrified of it.
As the Commons prepares to debates the effects of Brexit on these rights, here’s the story of how the Party has supplied them from Peel through to Cameron.
“The success of global trading is key, not only to our own future prosperity but in liberating the millions of human beings who still live in the scandal of global poverty.”
It will then be time next weekend to dust ourselves down, and remember what truly unites us all.
For the sake of the country, let us disagree politely and respect each others’ sincerity. We must avoid the mistakes of the past.
Picture the objections from the hackney carriage PR-men! Perhaps if Sadiq Khan had been alive to see such news, he would have raised a formal objections in Parliament.
Honoured today as a forerunner of social justice conservatism, the Tory battler against slavery was a more complex figure.
Those which turn out to matter usually involve more than the man who undertakes them. Does the latest one really fall into this category?
The parties these great men abandoned behaved in the same idiotic way that ours did over Mark Reckless, or that UKIP is now doing over their departed MEP.
Some members of the Tory family think the Chancellor isn’t part of it. But the Autumn Statement showed that no-one is working harder for its future.
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Peel moving his great measure – to which much of the Lords was also opposed.