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How did Conservatives get their name?

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ATOB2 | 17:48 Fri 01st Dec 2000 | Phrases & Sayings
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When did the British Conservative Party become known by that name?
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Well, it was previously called the Tory Party, but it was officially renamed after the Reform Bill of 1832. A Tory MP, John Wilson Croker, termed the phrase when he said in 1830: 'We now are, as we have always been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety, be called the Conservative Party'.

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