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Between 1945 and 2016, Britain had just 13 prime ministers and power flipped between Labour and the Conservatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

But the 63-year-old ex-lawyer has refused to quit, insisting his landslide election victory over the Conservatives 23 months ago gave him a five-year mandate to govern.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

The Conservatives last won a Westminster by-election north of the border in 1973, when they held Edinburgh North.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Restore Britain, a new party founded by former Reform MP Rupert Lowe, is fighting its first by-election in Makerfield and has been polling a distant third, but ahead of the Conservatives, Greens and Liberal Democrats.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were mayors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macondo.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez