Conservatism in the United Kingdom

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Conservatism in the United Kingdom
Ideologies British nationalism Cameronism Muscular liberalism Civic Compassionate Green Liberal Thatcherism Neo One-nation Powellism Progressive Toryism High Red Social Ultra
Principles British unionism Classical liberalism Elitism Aristocracy Meritocracy Noblesse oblige Family values Imperialism Loyalism Moral absolutism Protectionism Royalism Social hierarchy Social market economy Sovereignty State church Tradition
Intellectuals Belloc Burke Carlyle Chesterton Coleridge Dalrymple Dawson Cowling Eliot Ferguson Hayek Hitchens Hume Johnson (Paul) Johnson (Samuel) Joseph Kipling Lewis More Murray Newman Oakeshott Roberts Ruskin Scott Scruton Southey Sullivan Tolkien Waugh Wordsworth Worsthorne
Works A Vindication of Natural Society (1756) Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) "Tamworth Manifesto" (1834) Coningsby (1844) Sybil (1845) Orthodoxy (1908) The Servile State (1912) "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) The Abolition of Man (1943) The Left Was Never Right (1945) Our Culture, What's Left of It (2005) The Rage Against God (2010) The Great Degeneration (2013) How to Be a Conservative (2014) Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (2017) The Madness of Crowds (2019)
Politicians Baldwin Balfour Braverman Burke Cameron Canning Churchill Disraeli Gove Hannan Hayes Hogg Johnson Joseph Leigh Macmillan May Peel Pitt Powell Rees-Mogg Salisbury Thatcher Willetts
Parties Alliance EPP: European People's Party UK Christian Party Christian Peoples Alliance Conservative and Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party For Britain Movement Heritage Party Traditional Unionist Voice Tories UK Independence Party Ulster Unionist Party Veterans and People's Party
Organisations Bright Blue Blue Collar Conservativism Centre for Policy Studies Cornerstone Group One Nation Conservatives Orange Order Tory Reform Group Traditional Britain Group
Media Daily Express Sunday Express Daily Mail The Daily Telegraph Evening Standard GB News The Mail on Sunday The Salisbury Review The Spectator The Sun The Sun on Sunday The Sunday Telegraph The Sunday Times TalkTV The Times
Related topics Anglo-Catholicism Blue Labour Brexit Politics of the United Kingdom Liberalism Socialism Young England
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Variants Authoritarian Corporatist Cultural Fiscal Green Liberal Libertarian Moderate National Paternalistic Populist Pragmatic Progressive Reactionary Religious Social Traditionalist Ultra
Principles Ancestral worship Authority Traditional Class collaboration Collective identity Cultural heritage Cultural values Culture of life Pro-Life Discipline Duty Elitism Aristocracy Meritocracy Noblesse oblige Ethical order Familialism Family values Fundamentalism Gender roles Complementarianism Historism Honour Imperialism Law and order Loyalty Maternalism Monarchism Royalism Nationalism Norms Conventions Customs Mores Ordered liberty Organicism Organized religion Orthodoxy Patriotism  Property rights Public morality Rule of law Social hierarchy Social institutions Social order Sovereignty State religion Stewardship Subsidiarity Tradition
Intellectuals Johnson Hume Burke More Maistre Bonald Haller Chateaubriand Coleridge Karamzin Savigny Carlyle Newman Tocqueville Cortés Taine Le Bon Belloc Iorga Chesterton Spengler Savarkar Schmitt Jünger Evola Strauss Röpke Oakeshott Burnham Lefebvre Kuehnelt-Leddihn Gómez Dávila Kirk Koselleck Buckley Sowell Mansfield Scruton Hitchens Peterson
Works Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Considerations on France (1796) Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (1798) The Genius of Christianity (1802) On the Pope (1819) Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1820) Democracy in America (1835) The Concept of the Political (1932) The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) How to Be a Conservative (2014)
Politicians Adams Pitt Canning Metternich Disraeli Bismarck Salisbury Dmowski Mannerheim Baldwin Maurras Horthy Metaxas Churchill Adenauer De Gasperi Chiang Salazar De Gaulle Dollfuss Franco Khomeini Reagan Powell Pinochet Marcos Park Smith Suharto Lee Zia Thatcher Kohl Fujimori Trump Netanyahu Modi Putin Bolsonaro Orbán Meloni
Organizations Centrist Democrat International European Conservatives and Reformists Party European People's Party Identity and Democracy International Democrat Union Muslim Brotherhood Tradition, Family, Property
Religion Anglo-Catholicism Christian right Clericalism Confucianism Conservative Christianity Hindutva Islamism Jewish conservatism Religious Zionism Traditionalist Catholicism Integralism Ultramontanism Traditionalist School Perennialism
Personal variants Berlusconism Cameronism Chiangism Erdoğanism Francoism Fujimorism Gaullism Janismo Maurrassisme Mellismo Metaxism Powellism Pinochetism Putinism Reaganism Sarkozysm Thatcherism Trumpism
National variants Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Belize Brazil Canada China Mainland Hong Kong Taiwan Colombia Cuba Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Guatemala Iceland India Italy Japan Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Peru Panama Russia Serbia Singapore Spain Sweden Switzerland South Korea Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States
Historical background Ancien Régime Bourbon Restauration Congress of Vienna Conservative Order Counter-Enlightenment Counter-revolution German Romanticism Holy Alliance Ultra-royalism White Terror
Related ideologies Agrarianism Christian democracy Clerical fascism Communitarianism Conservative liberalism Corporatism Ordoliberalism
Related topics Anti-communism Anti-gender movement Black conservatism United States Catholic social teaching Conservative feminism Conservative wave Hispanic conservatism United States LGBT conservatism Nativism Patriarchy Right realism Right-wing politics Authoritarianism Far New Radical Small-c conservative Toryism
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Conservatism in the United Kingdom is related to its counterparts in other Western nations, but has a distinct tradition and has encompassed a wide range of theories over the decades of conservatism. The Conservative Party, which forms the mainstream right-wing party in Britain, has developed many different internal factions and ideologies.