London Conservatives | |
|---|---|
| Leader in the London Assembly | Neil Garratt |
| Deputy Leader in the London Assembly | Emma Best |
| Chairman | Clare Hambro |
| Deputy chairpersons | Peter Smallwood & Martin Hislop |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Preceded by | Municipal Reform Party |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing[1][2] |
| National affiliation | Conservatives |
| Colours | Blue |
| House of Commons (London seats) | 9 / 75 |
| London Assembly | 8 / 25 |
| Local councillors in London[3] | 403 / 1,817 |
| Council control in London[3] | 6 / 32 |
| Directly elected Mayoralties in London | 1 / 5 |
| Website | |
| City Hall Conservatives Conservative Party in London | |
The London Conservatives are the regional party of the Conservative Party that operates in Greater London.
...the Conservative Party's history in incorporating ethnic minorities, and the recent post-racial turn within the party whereby increasing party diversity has coincided with an increasing turn to the Right
[...] rather than the installation of a supposedly more 'technocratic' cabinet halting and even reversing any transformation on the part of the Conservative Party from a mainstream centre-right formation into an ersatz radical right-wing populist outfit, it could just as easily accelerate and accentuate it. Of course, radical right-wing populist parties are about more than migration and, indeed, culture wars more generally. Typically, they also put a premium on charismatic leafership and, if in office, on the rights of the executive over other branches of government and any intermediate institutions. And this is exactly what we have seen from the Conservative Party since 2019