The Tory party of ten years ago was slow to grasp the importance of social policies.
And founded in the teeth of opposition from the Tory party and the Tory press.
He added that it illustrates there is "a huge fissure opening up in the Tory party".
If he doesn't, the Tory party will have to choose between ditching him and dying.
But even within the Tory party this proposal was widely regarded as impractical and out of touch.
Besides reminding the Tory party to sound nice (never a bad idea), the concept had ideological roots.
Indeed, Mr Clarke has been telling friends quite recently that he still hopes to lead the Tory party.
But one plausible argument for now taking that risk is that the Tory party is mired in sleaze.
And only the wilder fringes of the Tory party will flirt with English nationalism in Bournemouth next week.
His time at the top of the Tory Party didn't last long, but the legacy of that visit did.
He served as vice chairman of the Tory Party between 1999 and 2001.
Divisions over Europe to this day have become embedded in the Tory party.
Frankly I don't see a sign of great resistance to that in the vast body of the Tory Party.
The Tory party tabled a motion to lift the Westminster government's ban on sales of beef on the bone.
After its worst defeat for more than 50 years, the Tory party does not know where it is going.
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The gap between the Tory party and business is wider than ever before.
Michael Fallon, deputy chair of the Tory party, said Mr Balls should apologise for the "appalling deficit" left by Labour.
When he succeeded Mrs Thatcher on November 28th 1990, both the Tory party and the government were in deep trouble.
And he described the shadow cabinet's decision as in the interest neither of the country nor of the Tory party.
When you said attractive figures coming forward, you hoped, in the Tory party, did that include your old friend Ken Clarke?
Mr Letwin denied that his approach to law and order put him at odds with the right of the Tory party.
It's a desperate attempt to cure the ills of the Tory party.
This secrecy is so strict that not even members of the Tory Party's own board of finance know what is going on.
She was suspended from the Tory Party in Parliament and a decision will be made on whether she will have the whip restored.
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Their campaign has been just as shambolic and farcical as the Tory party's - and it still has a long way to run.
There may not be a vacancy at the top of the Tory party for years but, at 49, he can afford to wait.
She said she believed the swing to Labour was a "very respectable result" for the Tory Party, given the nature of her resignation.
Do you mean you don't think there is slightly more racism within parts of the Tory Party than in the other two parties?
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"There are people in the Tory Party who have many different views on all kinds of policy areas - Europe, for example, " she said.
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