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Date	Process	Result
February 16, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
January 5, 2022	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Section sizes

Section size for Conservative Party (UK) (63 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	27,586	27,586
History	439	134,758
Origins	2,768	2,768
1867–1914: Conservatives and Unionists	4,717	4,717
First World War	2,224	2,224
1920–1945	1,962	1,962
1945–1975: Post-war consensus	81	8,274
Popular dissatisfaction	687	687
Modernising the party	5,363	5,363
1965–1975: Edward Heath	2,143	2,143
1975–1990: Margaret Thatcher	7,352	7,352
1990–1997: John Major	6,861	6,861
1997–2010: Political wilderness	6,224	6,224
2010–present: Return to government	9,036	34,900
2010–2016: David Cameron	4,462	4,462
2016–2019: Theresa May	4,378	4,378
2019–2022: Boris Johnson	6,794	6,794
2022: Liz Truss	4,817	4,817
2022–present: Rishi Sunak	5,413	5,413
Economic policy	3,076	3,076
Social policy	10,789	10,789
Foreign policy	13,252	13,252
Defence policy	3,563	6,193
NATO	957	957
European defence	1,478	1,478
Nuclear weapons	195	195
Health and drug policy	3,335	3,335
Education and research	3,381	3,381
Family policy	3,281	3,281
Jobs and welfare policy	4,065	4,065
Energy and climate change policy	3,836	3,836
Justice, crime and security policy	1,624	1,624
European Union policy	3,969	3,969
Constitutional policy	2,236	2,236
Organisation	20	30,362
Party structure	2,970	2,970
Membership	5,337	5,337
Prospective parliamentary candidates	2,056	2,056
Young Conservatives	1,916	1,916
Conferences	252	252
Funding	4,368	9,933
Financial ties to Russian oligarchs	5,565	5,565
International organisations	3,047	3,047
Logo	4,831	4,831
Party factions	3,075	11,210
One-nation Conservatives	2,014	2,014
Free-market Conservatives	3,301	3,301
Traditionalist Conservatives	1,659	1,659
Relationships between the factions	1,161	1,161
Electoral performance and campaigns	2,073	20,309
UK general election results	18,236	18,236
Associated groups	106	2,727
Ideological groups	1,032	1,032
Interest groups	431	431
Think tanks	226	226
Alliances	422	422
Party structures	510	510
See also	409	409
Notes	49	49
References	33	33
Further reading	6,678	8,176
Historiography	1,498	1,498
External links	2,219	2,219
Total	237,838	237,838

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