Tories Quotations

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Most Tories seem to think that 'ethics' is a county near Middlesex

Some of the speeches were never heard and were only distributed in the newspapers. If the Liberal candidate was seen to be trying very hard, Tories would kidnap him and take him away, and the same for the Tories.

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

We think the Tories (Conservatives) still have some upside potential.

Tories Bring Back Tarzan to Tame the Urban Jungle.

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

The Tories have to be able to force a vote next month. Otherwise, it gets too close to Christmas,

The Tories have no plan, no vision, and are looking for answers from a hand-picked steering committee that will likely not offer any fresh ideas,

The Tories are still game, but it's almost impossible to get anyone from Labour on. Perhaps we'll get a few more Labour rebels now.

The Tories are starting to eat away at Liberal support in key geographic regions like Southwest Ontario and Eastern Ontario. You can also say that, if the Tories continue to creep up, they'll start to win more seats.

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

At last I will be able to walk on the pavements, use the road and even have to look for a police officer once more in the town where I live. Please BBC, tell your managers and the politicians that you were not welcome this year and I don't want you to come back. Let New Labour, the Tories and LibDems go and spend other people's money somewhere else and not disrupt the lives of the people of this town ever again.

In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.

If I can make things a little hotter for the government, if the Tories can push harder on the government and if there is more of a debate on this then good.