High Tory

<p>In the United Kingdom and elsewhere, High Toryism is the old <a href="/facts/Traditionalist_conservatism/JwTRxNzr">traditionalist conservatism</a> which is in line with the <a href="/facts/Tory/AXvKEc1q">Toryism</a> originating in the 16th century. High Tories and their worldview are sometimes at odds with the modernising elements of the <a href="/facts/Conservative_Party_(UK)/0LPlRq1a">Conservative Party</a>. Historically, the late 18th-century conservatism derived from the <a href="/facts/Whigs_(British_political_party)/I34xpgxK">Whig</a> <a href="/facts/Edmund_Burke/bY66AVkl">Edmund Burke</a> and <a href="/facts/William_Pitt_the_Younger/dnHQXU0C">William Pitt the Younger</a> marks a watershed from the "higher" or legitimist Toryism that was allied to <a href="/facts/Jacobitism/z2w7SVWQ">Jacobitism</a>.
</p><p>High Toryism has been described by Andrew Heywood as neo-<a href="/facts/Feudalism/WCK7l9gA">feudalist</a> in its preference for a traditional hierarchical and <a href="/facts/Patriarchal/oTko9QfX">patriarchal</a> society over modern freedom and <a href="/facts/Social_equality/z9HzjDqI">equality</a>, as well for holding the traditional <a href="/facts/Gentry/Xzx46G4t">gentry</a> as a higher cultural benchmark than the <a href="/facts/Bourgeoisie/Ho3RUrlA">bourgeoisie</a> and those who have attained their position through commerce or labour. Economically, High Tories generally tend to prefer paternalistic <a href="/facts/Conservative_corporatism/C7NkhNph"> Tory corporatism</a> and <a href="/facts/Protectionism/jSa6HEAg">protectionism</a> over the <a href="/facts/Neo-liberalism/UfqKadhe">neo-liberalism</a> and <a href="/facts/Neo-conservatism/GCGgBKUe">neo-conservatism</a> that emerged in the 1960s.
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