In the early 1990s, John Major's Tory cabinet briefly discussed abolishing local councils altogether.
But Wellingborough's Tory MP Peter Bone called it an "outrageous slur", saying "everybody knows it's Wellingborough and Rushden".
One of the most interesting is Michael Macmanus's Tory Pride and Prejudice: The Conservative Party and homosexual law reform.
John Walsh's Tory Boy documentary has since landed award nominations, but again its central premise was firmly rejected by Stuart Bell.
Sir Michael Ashcroft is treasurer of Britain's Tory party and reportedly a close friend of Margaret Thatcher, that avatar of free-market capitalism.
Instead, Mr Hague went on to describe Lord Archer as a "candidate of probity and of integrity", at this year's Tory conference.
His future was the source of speculation during this week's Tory conference - which he chose not to attend - with ministers repeatedly asked about the incident.
Mr Mitchell's future was the source of speculation during this week's Tory conference, despite the Sutton Coldfield MP choosing not to attend, with ministers repeatedly asked about the incident.
It's an ideal complement to her previous books about Britain's Tory rebels who brought Winston Churchill to power and Americans who assisted England while it stood alone against a triumphant Germany.
Mr Eves's Tory predecessor had begun to deregulate electricity.
Some campaigners have criticised Bromley's Tory administration for proposed and past cuts to services, including the closure of day centres, reduced provision for the elderly and disabled, and the closure of a library.
John Major, Mr Blair's Tory predecessor, had relied on a handful of civil servants to prepare his papers and run his diary, and a small Policy Unit to keep him in touch with policy developments in Whitehall.
Too many and not only Britain's former Tory government talk and behave as though events in Brussels were quite separate from them, rather than being their own creation.
Comparisons are being drawn with the worst days of John Major's reign as Tory leader.
That's what a Tory government would mean We know from all the memoirs that this is a party with some past.
"The government's Help to Buy scheme is very much a work in progress, " said the committee's chairman, Tory MP Andrew Tyrie.
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But talks were abandoned in October 2007 as parties clashed over Labour's trade union funding and Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft's funding of Tory candidates in marginal seats.
But in response to Mr Bryant's speech, Tory MP Therese Coffey said it should be for parents to decide how to provide education on these subjects to their children.
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However, by 1992, Britain's anti-Tory voters had embraced strategic voting with a vengeance, with Liberal Democrat and Labour supporters each opting for the party best placed to dislodge the Tories in marginal seats.
The policy had been pioneered by Lady Thatcher's predecessor as Tory leader, Ted Heath, in the early 1970s, although local councils have had the right to sell off their council housing stock, with ministerial approval, since 1936.
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But there is a danger that, as well as diminishing Britain's influence in the European Union, Mr Cameron's plans (whatever they are) would sap a new Tory government's energy and attention.
Speakers at the conference (which then moved to a nearby hotel) included a retired philosophy professor, a representative of the Catholic archdiocese of Westminster, the chairman of the Tory Party's oldest pressure group, the Bow Group, Phillip Blond (another Tory adviser) and Cristina Odone, a journalist married to an editor at this newspaper.
Mr Crosby, who masterminded London Mayor Boris Johnson's re-election and Michael Howard's election campaign in 2005 - urged Tory MPs at Tuesday evening's meeting to focus on selling the party's message and stop airing divisions on social media.
The Tory party's strategy at the boundary review - as a party - was to reduce the number of safe Tory seats so their votes were more evenly spread among more, winnable marginal seats.
He's ok, one Tory MP told me some months ago - but his public persona?
The only items tabled for Wednesday's plenary session were Tory motions that criticised the Welsh Labour government.
Hence Mr Howard's resort to traditional Tory populism on immigration in order to make his party look distinctive.
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