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Answer 1

Name

The Party's rarely used, more official name is The Conservative and Unionist Party. The name has its origins in the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party and is an echo of the party's 1886-1921 policy of maintaining the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations. Scotland's Unionist Party was independent of the Conservatives until 1965. Similarly the Ulster Unionist Party supported the Conservatives for many decades in the House of Commons and traditionally took the Conservative whip. In contrast to Scotland, this arrangement broke down in the aftermath of the Ulster Unionists' opposition to the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement. The Conservative Party is now formally organised in Northern Ireland separately from the Ulster Unionist Party.
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Organisation and membership

The internal organisation of the Conservative Party is a contrast between the grassroots constituency groups who dominate in the election of party leaders, and the members of the Conservative Campaign Headquarters who lead in financing, the organisation of elections, and drafting of policy. The leader of the Parliamentary party provides the core of daily political activity and forms policy in consultation with his cabinet and administration. This decentralised structure is unusual.[1]

As with Labour, party membership has long been declining and despite an initial boost shortly after Cameron's election as leader, membership resumed its fall in 2006 (with some defections to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)) and is now actually lower than when David Cameron was elected[2] in December 2005. However, the Conservative Party still has more members (about 290,000) than the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats combined (around 200,000 and 70,000 respectively).[2] The party does not publicly provide verifiable membership figures, making this conjecture difficult to confirm.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission it had income in the year ending 31 December 2004 of about £20 million and expenditure of about £26 million.[3]

The electoral symbol of the Conservative party is a stylised oak tree, replacing the freedom torch. The present motto, adopted by the Party on 6 December 2005, is "Change to Win – Win for Britain". The official party colours are red, white and blue, though blue is most generally associated with the party, in contrast to the red of the Labour Party. (In the Cumbrian constituencies of Penrith and the Border and Westmorland and Lonsdale the party adopts yellow as its colour after the coat of arms of the Earls of Lonsdale).
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Current policies

Conservatives are generally supportive of reduced government intervention in most matters. They are also noted for stance against further EU integration. Many commentators believe that their failures in UK politics from 1997 were partly as a result of continued internal tension between Europhiles (such as Kenneth Clarke and Michael Heseltine) and Eurosceptics (such as John Redwood and William Hague). However, the Conservative party has in recent years largely come to terms with these issues, or has at least ceased to argue quite as publicly over what remains a contentious internal issue.

Since the election of David Cameron as leader, party policy has increasingly focused on such "quality of life" issues as the environment, the improvement of government services (most prominently the National Health Service and the Home Office), and schools.

Conservatives hold a varying record of opposition and support on parliamentary devolution to the national and English regions of the UK. They opposed devolution to Wales and Scotland in 1997, whilst supporting it for Northern Ireland. They also opposed the government's unsuccessful attempt at devolution of power to North East England in 2004. However, since the New Labour government introduced devolution in Wales and Scotland, the Conservatives have pledged not to reverse these reforms. Recently the Conservatives have begun to take a stance on the West Lothian Question, and support the idea that only English MPs should vote on policies which affect only England. The current devolution status quo allows House of Commons MPs in Scottish constituencies to vote on matters which only affect England, but does not allow Commons English MPs to vote on matters affecting Scotland, since the new Scottish Parliament controls almost all legislation affecting Scotland alone.[

参考资料：http://en.wikipedia.org.nyud.net:8090/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29

Answer 2

The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and is the oldest organised political party in the world having evolved from the early Tory parliamentary groupings of the eighteenth century. It is also the most successful political party in British history in terms of election victories. The current leader is David Cameron, who as Her Majesty's Loyal Leader of the Opposition heads the Shadow Cabinet. The party's political stance is traditionally centre right.

The Conservative Party is descended from the Tory Party of the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries. Its members are still commonly referred to as Tories and the party is still often referred to as the Tory Party. Though the Conservative Party was in government for two-thirds of the twentieth century, they have been in opposition in Parliament since losing the 1997 election to the Labour Party under Tony Blair.