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5 As a matter of historical fact, therefore, the interests of the established Church (scornfully referred to by critics as 'the Tory party at prayer') and the Conservative party have seemed to be yoked together. Occasionally also modem Conservatives have placed the defence of religion and Christianity in a central position in their accounts of the Conservative ideology. 6 But although there have been attempts to derive voting behaviour from religious affiliation in the United Kingdom, on the whole it can be said that there is little religious significance to contemporary Conservatism.
In the late nineteenth century a new sense of Conservative identity was forged by the opposition to Home Rule for Ireland which caused a party realignment as Liberal Unionists split from the Liberal party and entered into an alliance with the Conservatives. In the twentieth century it is important to notice that the core of political debate -domestic, social and economic policy- has frequently been the result of left-wing initiatives. Conservative spokesmen have had to develop alternatives to the more radical suggestions of the Liberal and Labour parties.
O'Sullivan, Conservatism (London: Dent, 1976). O'Sullivan argues that there is no such thing as an exclusively French, German or British version of conservative thought; the most notable exponents of one school of conservatism may come from one country. 25. For the historical origins of Christian democracy seeM. Fogarty, Christian Democracy in Western Europe (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957). 26. B. Disraeli, Coningsby (London: Dent, 1963). 27. B. Disraeli, Speech to the National Union at Crystal Palace, 24 June 1872.
