This question focuses on an evaluation of whether support for the Monarchy, the Church of England and the aristocrat was the most important element of Disraelian Conservatism. Other will be discussed, such as one nation conservatism, imperial and foreign policy, social stability, maintaining institutions of the country. It will be argue that Tory democracy was the most important element.

The first topic, is the creation of Tory democracy, which was the idea that the party was committed to aiding poor and underprivileged in society. The social reforms of Disraeli’s 2nd ministry that dealt with a wide range of issues such as factory reform, housing, public health and trade union rearm all seemed to support this view. Disraeli was always open to parliamentary reform. In 1859 he had introduced a Reform Act into the house of Commons where it was opposed by Gladstone. It was in fact Disraeli who passed the scone reform act 1867 and he was aware that he had to appeal to a wider trance of people and not just the landed classes if he was to fain electoral appeal-consider the importance of the alliance between the workers and Tory aristocrats against their common middle class liberal enemies, using worker numbers to gain power for a government who then delivered on social reform. Alexander McDonald, a trade unionist and Liberal MP declared the ‘the conservative had done more for the working classes in six years than the Liberal had done in 50’.

A second factor is One-nation Conservatism. Disraeli believed that Whig created a divide between rich and poor, separating them into two nations, which he wrote about in a novel called Sybil, published in 1845. It was believed that by the aristocrats taking on a paternal role of looking after the working class he believed that they would not have to suffer unnecessarily and that it would keep them docile. Disraeli,