Tories

1. A political party in Britain, also called the Conservative party. In the late eighteenth century, the Tories took form as defenders of the king and stability and of established interests in Britain; they advised caution in making political and social change. Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, and Margaret Thatcher belonged to the party.

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The Tories said unpicking the Brexit deal was a "ridiculous" idea, whilst Labour warned it could spark a trade war with Brussels.

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"We are not like the Tories. We're not going to change leader more than once in a parliament," one Labour MP first elected last year told us.

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The Tories are arguing that the prime minister had "exactly the same conflict of interest" since Mr Kogan had also donated to the prime minister's Labour leadership campaign.

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British Tories assumed they could coast because they were on the correct side of the era’s great popular revolt, Brexit, which had a lot of the characteristics of an anti-elite culture war.

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The Tories have also attacked Reeves after she apologised for failing to get a licence that was required to rent out her home after an "inadvertent error".

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