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The man in question was Basil de Ferranti, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1988. A profile of him by Alistair Lexden is included...

At past coronations, seats were provided for all peers who wanted them. Since the last coronation in 1953, life peers have come into existence and the number of...

This famous meeting changed the course of British politics. But It did not bring the Conservative 1922 Committee into being, as is widely believed. *** On the...

It has emerged that No 10 is thinking of breaching a hitherto inviolable constitutional convention by announcing peerages, but deferring their actual conferment...

That was the message of a letter published in The Times on 4 October as the Conservative Party met in Birmingham for a particularly difficult annual conference...

Chips Channon, a Conservative MP from 1935 to 1958, wrote brilliantly about his own political and social life, and about the lives of others in his upper-class...

On 19 October 1922, David Lloyd George’s powerful coalition government, which had dominated British politics for six years, suddenly collapsed. Its fate was...

The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 29 September. SIR - It is good to see reference to the great Duke of Wellington’s two terms as...

The following letter was published, along with others, in The Daily Telegraph on 10 September, under the heading “Tears of sadness for a Queen who brought joy...