24 Quotes filtered by conservative party
If I was in standard class I would not do work because people would be looking over your shoulder the entire time. There would be noise. There would be distraction... They are totally different type of people.
Sir Nicholas Winterton 18/02/2010
on MPs travelling first class
Category: Conservative Party, Class
I gave a figure, off the top of my head, of a billion to a billion-and-a-half. I stand by that figure.
Philip Hammond
on justifying his claim that Conservative plans would save £1.5bn despite the fact that the institute for Fiscal Studies estimate was half of that
Category: Conservative Party, Mistakes
The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.
John Redwood 1995
Said during the 1995 Conservative leadership election.
Category: Conservative Party, Tax Cuts
Why are Tories like walnuts? because they are troublesome to Peel.
Earl of Clarendon 13/06/1843
On Sir Robert Peel's difficulties.
Category: Conservative Party
However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.
Robert Peel
Category: Conservative Party
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
Aneurin Bevan 1952
Category: Conservative Party, Wealth, Poverty
There is the No Turning Back Group - I believe that was the cry of the Gadarene Swine.
Tony Benn
Category: Conservative Party
Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel betweent he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
Harold Wilson
Category: Conservative Party
The right wing of the Conservative Party is one of the most vicious, prejudiced and neolithic animals in British politics.
Jeremy Thorpe 20/04/1988
Category: Conservative Party
Traditionally Tory leaders were said to 'emerge'. That is to say, the succession was rigged by a small section of the party, usually with Cabinet inspiration.
Sir Gerald Nabarro
Category: Conservative Party, Leadership Elections
Mrs Thatcher has hijacked the Tory Party from the landowners and given it to the estate agents.
Julian Critchley 05/09/1989
Category: Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
Barbara Castle 01/1991
Category: Conservative Party
A great Party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar.
Lord Hailsham 13/06/1963
On the Profumo scandal
Category: Conservative Party, Sex Scandals
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan 05/07/1948
On the inuaguration of the National Health Service
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Conservatives, Conservative Party
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.
Enoch Powell
Category: Conservative Party
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
Chris Patten 10/10/1981
On the Conservative Party
Category: Conservative Party
We are a Party of the highest morals.
Peter Bruinvels 27/10/1986
Category: Conservative Party, Morals & Morality
I find most of them boring, petty, malign, clumsily conspiratorial and parochial to a degree that cannot be surpassed in any part of the United Kingdom.
Alan Clark
On Tory constituency associations
Category: Conservative Party
As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.
Julian Critchley 1991
Category: Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
