Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 April 2001.
Russell Brown
Labour, Dumfries
12:00,
23 April 2001
There is no doubt that we have taken major strides forward while Conservatives have merely thrown bricks and barracked.
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.