Sentence examples for tory theory from inspiring English sources

There's the Shy Tory Theory: people don't want to admit to inquiring strangers, such as pollsters, that they're voting Conservative because they're afraid of being thought of as selfish bastards who hate taxes more than they love their fellow man.

To verify the "shy Tory" theory would require statistical analysis beyond my ken.

The thinking here — often referred to as the "shy Tory" theory, because it appears to have applied in recent years to the Conservative Party in Britain — is that voters may be too embarrassed to acknowledge their support for candidates or parties that are considered controversial or hard-hearted.

-Differential turnout by Labor and Conservative voters, not the "Shy Tories" theory, explain the polling error in the UK.

Under Tory economic theory, surely I (and by implication all the other taxpayers) have a much better idea of how to manage my affairs than some Treasury bureaucrat.

Since 2010, a tiny group known as the "Behavioural Insights Team" have been camped in Number 10, trying to help the Tories put theory into practice.

But among Tory MPs one theory gathering strength was that the enormity of the matricide they had collectively committed would rebound against the former Defence Secretary.

The news that a 20% cash boost to hospitals over the past three years has resulted in a rise in treatments completed by consultants of only 1.6% demonstrates just how well-founded those fears are.Hubble bubbleSo far, so good, then, for the Tories' tipping point theory.

Lib Dem supporters who voted Labour last time to ensure a Tory defeat will, the theory goes, be less inclined to do so next month, partly because they feel more hostile towards the government because of Iraq and partly because they no longer fear a Tory recovery.

Commuting financial workers are also likelier than most to resent the forbidding Tory policy on the euro.Another theory, advanced by Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, is that London and the Conservatives have evolved in different directions.

Les Bright Exeter, Devon I really liked Jane Braithwaite's theory about the Tories and the EU referendum (Letters, 30 May).