Editing Tory (section)

==Current usage==
''Tory'' has become shorthand for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general in Canada and the UK, and can be used interchangeably with the word ''[[Conservative]]''.<ref name=bbc/>

===North America===
In the United States, ''Tory'' is often used as a historical term to describe supporters of Great Britain during the American Revolution. However, in Canadian parlance, British supporters during the revolution are called ''Loyalists'', with the term ''Tory'' being used as a contemporary political term.<ref name=canentor>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tory|title=Tory|last=Marsh|first=James H.|date=13 December 2013|publisher=Historica Canada|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref>

In Canada, a ''Tory'' refers to a member of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]], while the party as a whole are colloquially referred to as the ''Tories''.<ref name=bbc/><ref name=canentor/> It is also used to refer to the party's predecessor, including the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]]. In addition to the federal Conservative Party, the terms have also been used to describe provincial Conservative/Progressive Conservative parties and their members. [[LGBTory]] is an advocacy group for LGBT supporters of the Conservative Party of Canada and provincial conservative parties.

The terms "[[Blue Tory]]" and "[[Red Tory]]" describe two factions of Canada's federal and provincial conservative parties. The former leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario]], [[Tim Hudak]], adopted the term "[[Purple Tory]]" to characterize himself, aiming to avoid the strong ideological stance and instead provide a conciliatory position between Blue Tories and Red Tories.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fighting for Votes Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election|year=2015|publisher=UBC Press|last1=Cross|first1=William P.|last2=Malloy|first2=Jonathan|first3=Tamara A.|last3=Small|last4=Stephenson|first4=Laura B.|isbn=9780774829304|page=38}}</ref> The term "[[Pink Tory]]" is also used by Canadian politics as a pejorative term to describe a conservative party member who is perceived as liberal.

===United Kingdom===
[[File:Pride London Parade, July 2011 (5963245767).jpg|thumb|Members of [[LGBT+ Conservatives]] with a banner reading LGBTory. The group is the [[LGBT]] wing of the United Kingdom's [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].]]
In the United Kingdom, the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative and Unionist Party]] is often colloquially referred to as the ''Tories'', both by themselves and by opponents, and also in the media. Members and voters of the party are also often referred to as "Tories" as well. The [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]'s own [[style guide]] permits the use of the term ''Tory'', although requires the term ''Conservative'' be used in its first instance.<ref name=bbc/>

In [[Scotland]], the term ''Tory'' is used to describe members and supporters of the [[Scottish Conservatives]], or to accuse other parties of being insufficiently opposed to that party. For example, members and supporters of the [[Scottish Labour Party]] (especially those from the "[[Blairism|Blairite]] and [[Brownism|Brownite]]" factions) may be referred to as ''Red Tories'' by traditional Labour members and advocates of an [[independent Scotland]] such as members and supporters of the [[Scottish National Party]], the [[Alba Party]] (formerly [[Solidarity (Scotland)|Solidarity]]), the [[Scottish Socialist Party]] and the [[Scottish Greens]]. Similarly, Labour supporters have referred to SNP members and supporters as being ''Tartan Tories''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hughes |first1=Kirsty |title=Could the Kingdom Still Be United? |work=Economic and Political Weekly |date=26 July 2014}}</ref>

===Australia===
In Australia, ''Tory'' is occasionally used as a pejorative term by members of the [[Australian Labor Party]] to refer to conservative members of the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] and [[National Party of Australia]] parties (who are in [[Coalition (Australia)|a long-standing coalition]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Sparkes|first=A. W.|title=Talking Politics: A Wordbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TvFvphrjMAC&pg=PA203|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-02211-5}}</ref> The term is not used anywhere near as often as in the UK and Canada, and it is rare – though not unheard of – for members of those parties to self-describe as 'Tories'.

Writing in the [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Michael Persse notes the impact of 'Liberal Toryism' on the colonial era Australian statesman [[William Wentworth|William Charles Wentworth]] when he was in Britain.<ref name="ADB">{{cite AuDB|last1=Persse|first1=Michael|title=Wentworth, William Charles (1790–1872)|id2=wentworth-william-charles-2782|access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref> Chief Justice [[Garfield Barwick]] titled his memoir ''A Radical Tory''.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21087548?q&versionId=45140417 A Radical Tory], Trove</ref> The newspaper of the [[University of Sydney]] Conservative Club is named ''The Sydney Tory''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-21 |title=About |url=https://thesydneytory.com/about/ |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=The Sydney Tory |language=en}}</ref> A [[political moderate|moderate]] faction of the [[Australian Greens]] has been pejoratively dubbed the ''Tree Tories'' by the [[hard left]] faction.<ref>{{cite web
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 |title=New left faction threatens to white ant the Greens
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 |date=20 January 2017
 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]
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 |quote=Still, the pair have aligned themselves with the "eastern bloc" or "watermelon" faction (green on the outside, red in the middle) that dismisses environmentally-minded, [[middle class]] Greens like [[Richard Di Natale|Di Natale]] as "tree tories".}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/andrew-clark-on-the-greens-20170208-gu8e71
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 |title=The Greens have got their own problems, just like the mainstream parties
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 |date=10 February 2017
 |website=[[The Australian Financial Review]]
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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428052950/https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/andrew-clark-on-the-greens-20170208-gu8e71
 |archive-date=28 April 2021
 |quote=Once again, they were let down in NSW. The state hosts a factional divide between so-called "Tree Tories" – people who believe in a [[mixed economy]] but with strong environmental controls – and "watermelons".}}</ref>