British Political Parties

A history of British political parties.

Active

• Conservative Party

• Labour Party

• Liberal Democrats Party

• Democratic Unionist Party
• Ulster Unionist Party

Defunct

• Whig Party

• Tory Party (first and second)

• Liberal Party

  • merged into the Liberal Democrats Party in 1988
• Social Democratic Party
  • merged into the Liberal Democrats Party in 1988
• Liberal Unionist Party
  • split from the Liberal Party in 1888, merged into the Conservative Party in 1912
• Unionist Party

  • the Scottish wing of the Liberal Unionist Party which remained distinct, but sat with the Conservative Party in the British Parliament

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