Editing Conservative and Unionist Party

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The '''Conservative and Unionist Party''' is a [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] centre-right to right wing [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] political party that is the current ruling party of the UK. Under [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]], the Conservatives set about imposing a neoliberal economic system in the UK, extensively privatizing and brutally suppressing strikes.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Nikos Mottas]]|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=Margaret Thatcher: Symbol of Capitalist Barbarism|date=2023-04-15|url=http://www.idcommunism.com/2023/04/margaret-thatcher-symbol-of-capitalist-barbarism.html|retrieved=2023-12-21}}</ref>

== History ==

=== World War Two ===

=== Cold War ===

==== Government of 1979-1997 ====

===== Thatcher(1979-1990) =====
In November 1990 Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister following a failure in a leadership challenge mounted by [[Michael Heseltine]] spurred on by her rising unpopularity due to her attack on the poor in the form of the [[Poll Tax]]. After her resignation she instructed her backers to support [[John Major]] for leader instead of Heseltine due to Major being more right wing than the alternative, though, not nearly as right wing as Thatcher herself. With the backing of all the British [[bourgeois media]] aside from [[the Telegraph]], [[the Guardian]], and [[the Independent]], Major won the leadership contest with a vote of 185 to Heseltine’s 131 and [[Douglas Hurd]]’s 56 becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK.<ref>{{Citation|author=Tim Bale|year=2016|title=The Conservative Party, from Thatcher to Cameron|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/ec2683cb0224991559d448bb02940904|chapter=Losing the Plot: Thatcher to Major, 1989-1997|isbn=978-0-7456-8744-5}}</ref>

===== Major(1990-1997) =====

=== 21st Century ===

==== Period of opposition (1997-2010) ====

==== Government of 2010-Present ====
This period of Conservative rule has been notorious for constant crises with the amount of crises only increasing year on year. Thirteen years of Conservative rule have resulted in drastically reduced material conditions for the majority of people whilst the ruling classes have become increasingly blatant with their flaunting of power. 2.5 Million children go hungry whilst the government wastes money on imperialism in [[Ukraine]], [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]], [[State of Palestine|Palestine]] and more.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Harpal Brar|newspaper=The Proletarian|title=Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks|date=2022-11-09|url=https://thecommunists.org/2022/11/09/news/rishi-sunak-third-british-prime-minister-seven-weeks-liz-truss/|retrieved=2023-12-21}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Imperialist political parties]]