ABSTRACT
There was not much left of a Tory party by the late 1750s, but there was a Tory view of foreign policy that looked back with pride to the Treaty of Utrecht as a model Tory settlement. French aggression in 1741 against Austria marked the beginning of a more assertive foreign policy on her part that made it difficult for the Tories to recommend a pacific response when British national interests were at risk. A strong monarchical state in either a Bourbon or an Orléanist guise was no longer on offer in France after 1848 and any chance that it would be evaporated as the Third Republic slowly consolidated itself in the 1870s. The Tories today are neither no more nor no less monarchical than other political parties, but the Christian faith and foreign policy have been sundered, as the coalition government's much criticised apparent indifference to the fate of Middle Eastern Christians appears to demonstrate.
