"There was a Christian evangelist group that were involved with the local Tory party, " he says.
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".
Tory party members have until noon on 11 September to return their ballot papers.
If he doesn't, the Tory party will have to choose between ditching him and dying.
Now today he's throwing chunks of meat to his disgruntled right-wing in the Tory party.
But even within the Tory party this proposal was widely regarded as impractical and out of touch.
MP the Tory party is less troubled than it has been at any time since its 1997 defeat.
Besides reminding the Tory party to sound nice (never a bad idea), the concept had ideological roots.
The general's friends among them Margaret Thatcher and most of the Tory party lambasted Mr Straw's decision as blatantly political.
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.
Plans for a waste incinerator in Hertfordshire have received county council backing, despite opposition from Tory party chairman Grant Shapps.
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.
The ex-Tory party treasurer told BBC Radio 4's The World at One he should have been contacted before broadcast.
Mr Murphy was brought before the county council standards committee meeting which heard of "internal warfare" in the local Tory party.
It is an attempt at ventriloquism, if you will, borrowing the voice of a rather cynical bunch of Tory party strategists.
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.
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