Five Families (Conservative Party)
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As of 2024, there are a number of factions within the British parliamentary Conservative Party which have the informal name of the "Five Families", named after the Five Families of the New York Mafia.[1][2]
Among the factions that have been described as members of the "Five Families" are:[3]
- The Blue Collar Conservatives, a group that identify as working class MPs
- The Common Sense Group, a group of right-wing MPs.[4]
- The Conservative Growth Group, supporting Liz Truss.[5]
- The European Research Group, a group of Eurosceptic MPs that promoted Brexit.
- The New Conservatives, a parliamentary group of predominantly "Red Wall" Conservative MPs.
- The No Turning Back group, backing Thatcherite policies.
- The Northern Research Group, consisting of MPs elected to seats in Northern England.
- The One Nation Conservatives, consisting of centre right MPs taking a more moderate position on social and fiscal policies.