Editing Conservative Party (UK) (section)

==== Constitutional policy ====
Traditionally the Conservative Party has supported the uncodified [[constitution of the United Kingdom]] and its traditional [[Westminster system]] of [[Politics of the United Kingdom|politics]]. The party opposed many of [[Tony Blair]]'s reforms, such as the removal of the hereditary peers,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/216872.stm |title=Blair attacks hereditary peers |work=BBC News |date=18 November 1998 |access-date=18 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030223090951/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/216872.stm |archive-date=23 February 2003 |url-status=live }}</ref> the incorporation of the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] into British law, and the 2009 creation of the [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]], a function formerly [[Lords of Appeal in Ordinary|carried out by the House of Lords]].

There was also a split on whether to introduce a British Bill of Rights that would replace the [[Human Rights Act 1998]]; David Cameron expressed support, but party [[grandee]] Ken Clarke described it as "xenophobic and legal nonsense".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5120894.stm |title=Clarke slams Cameron rights plan |work=BBC News |date=27 June 2006 |access-date=18 June 2013 |archive-date=8 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108140559/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5120894.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019 the Conservatives' manifesto committed to a broad constitutional review in a line which read "after Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: the relationship between the government, parliament and the courts".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leybourn |first1=Heather |title=The threat to our democracy buried in the Tory manifesto |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/11/the-threat-to-our-democracy-buried-in-the-tory-manifesto |work=The Guardian |date=11 December 2019 |access-date=19 January 2021 |archive-date=11 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211190827/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/11/the-threat-to-our-democracy-buried-in-the-tory-manifesto |url-status=live }}</ref>