Sentence examples for a tory at from inspiring English sources

That is one of his unforgivable crimes in the eyes of the more ideologically fervent members of his party who complain that he is not really a Tory at all.

"She wasn't, if I may say to the deputy prime minister, a Tory at all – she proudly stated she was a laissez-faire, Gladstonian liberal, in the proudest traditions of the Gladstonian Liberal party".

It was as though they could scarcely believe what they had just heard, a British prime minister, a Tory at that, offering a formal and sincerely-meant apology for what his soldiers had done nearly four decades ago to men and women who were guilty only of protesting at the excesses and longevity of British colonial rule of Ireland.

Whether Blair had ideas about being fair before John Smith died I wouldn't like to guess but, as a Tory at heart, his true colours came out after 1997.

I don't think I come across as a "Tory" at all, and I wouldn't want to be because I like to change my mind.

Tories, in their natural and sober state, have an almost pathological need to show their forearms: look at a Tory Dad at rest and he will be wearing a long-sleeved zip-thru from Blacks over a TM Lewin shirt, rolled right up.

But Hitchens is not a Tory, or at least not the deregulating, denationalising, radical Tory that won elections and should represent the real alternative to this government.

Jack Straw ordered the inquiry, but the first minister to be involved was a Tory predecessor at the Home Office, Peter Lloyd.

Mr Gould is not predicting a Tory win at the next election; he projects a Labour victory by a margin of about 5%.

It is all too easy to imagine a Labour prime minister trying to do business with a Tory leader at the head of a dominant English faction.

According to MORI, just 12% of non-white voters went for a Tory candidate at the last election, down from 1997.