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Date	Process	Result
February 16, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
January 5, 2022	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Section sizes

Section size for Conservative Party (UK) (63 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	34,961	34,961
History	439	143,540
Origins	2,768	2,768
1867–1914: Conservatives and Unionists	4,592	4,592
First World War	1,980	1,980
1920–1945	2,086	2,086
1945–1975: Post-war consensus	81	8,115
Popular dissatisfaction	675	675
Modernising the party	5,332	5,332
1965–1975: Edward Heath	2,027	2,027
1975–1990: Margaret Thatcher	7,041	7,041
1990–1997: John Major	7,190	7,190
1997–2010: Political wilderness	6,772	6,772
2010–2024: Austerity, Brexit, and the pandemic	7,587	38,735
2010–2016: David Cameron	5,909	5,909
2016–2019: Theresa May	5,373	5,373
2019–2022: Boris Johnson	8,025	8,025
2022: Liz Truss	6,376	6,376
2022–2024: Rishi Sunak	4,477	4,477
2024: Kemi Badenoch	988	988
Economic policy	3,813	3,813
Social policy	12,513	12,513
Foreign policy	11,669	11,669
Defence policy	5,070	5,070
Health and drug policy	3,426	3,426
Education and research	3,593	3,593
Family policy	3,274	3,274
Jobs and welfare policy	5,444	5,444
Energy and climate change policy	3,845	3,845
Justice, crime and security policy	1,622	1,622
Transport and infrastructure policy	4,743	4,743
European Union policy	2,574	2,574
Constitutional policy	2,236	2,236
Organisation	20	32,259
Party structure	2,970	2,970
Membership	5,334	5,334
Prospective parliamentary candidates	2,232	2,232
Young Conservatives	2,654	2,654
Conferences	252	252
Funding	4,856	11,205
Financial ties to Russian oligarchs	6,349	6,349
International organisations	3,121	3,121
Logo	4,471	4,471
Party factions	3,069	11,204
One-nation Conservatives	2,014	2,014
Free-market Conservatives	3,301	3,301
Traditionalist Conservatives	1,659	1,659
Relationships between the factions	1,161	1,161
Electoral performance and campaigns	2,050	20,661
UK general election results	18,611	18,611
Notes	1,045	1,045
Associated groups	106	2,798
Ideological groups	1,032	1,032
Interest groups	431	431
Think tanks	226	226
Alliances	467	467
Party structures	536	536
See also	409	409
Notes	74	74
References	33	33
Further reading	6,678	8,176
Historiography	1,498	1,498
External links	2,112	2,112
Total	257,272	257,272