... confined to S e + party - Wilberforce, the leader in et ,campaign for the abolition of the a * Was a Tor though most of his f Whigs. Shaftesbury, the t?° h tlle Fa ctory Acts, was a Tory, again much of our distinctively *ri j f ?ls iation has been initiated ...

... the two-par system might be said to be a product of Victorian politics. But for time the Radicals were distinct from the Whigs. The Nationalists were alvvav* distinct from both Liberals and Conservatives, and even within living memory the Liberal Unionists ...