Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 April 2001.
Mr Paul Boateng
Minister of State, Home Office, Minister of State (Home Office)
12:00,
9 April 2001
Conservative promises must be judged against the Conservatives' performance in office. They took the power to do this in 1994. It was not until this Government came into office that any were built. Again, it is all yack, yack, yack from the Conservatives. It takes a Labour Government to do anything about crime and disorder.
The Conservatives are a centre-right political party in the UK, founded in the 1830s. They are also known as the Tory party.
With a lower-case ‘c’, ‘conservative’ is an adjective which implies a dislike of change, and a preference for traditional values.
