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Tory

adjective as in conservative

adjective as in ultraconservative

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Following the resignation of Liz Truss, her 44 days in office — the shortest tenure of any British prime minister in history last Thursday — the Conservative Party met Monday and named has Rishi Sunak as the new Tory party leader.

Tory MPs revolted against Truss after a series of U-turns on her economic plan sapped her of authority.

In her acceptance speech the Tory leader pledged to “govern as a Conservative” by delivering a “bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy.”

Organising even the simplest load to Europe has become an almost impossible task due to the mountain of Tory red tape that was brought in on the 1st of January.

From Fortune

In WhatsApp group chats, even Londoners who hate Manchester United joked, “Any defender that tackles Rashford is a Tory.”

Newmark was approached online by “Sophie Wittams,” a blond, flirty, “twentysomething Tory PR girl.”

The map is mostly blue for Tory, after the last national election, when the Conservatives gained.

Of the 59 MPs elected to represent Scotland in the current U.K. Parliament, only one is a Tory.

“A Tory minister stepped out of the shadows to confront me,” Danczuk wrote in The Guardian.

Sniffing Tory conspiracies under every Whitehall bed, ours specially?

Well, 'Utchinson done very well; it's a strong Tory seat, is Croydon.

The Tory gentry, who were powerful in all the counties, had special grievances.

At last some ingenious Tory thought of a device by which it might be possible to strike the enemy without wounding friends.

I defend civilisation for the thing it is, for the thing it has come to be, the standpoint of a real old Tory.

It's a fact that the Tory total figures out much larger than the Liberal Unionist.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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