ABSTRACT
The Ultra-Tories emerged as an identifiable political group in British domestic politics during the mid-to late 1820s. The 'domestic context' of foreign policy is enjoying something of a high-water mark in the historiography of nineteenth-century British politics at present. Vyvyan was an energetic promoter of the Country Party in 1830 and was considered its leader in the House of Commons. The roots of Disraeli's approach to Louis-Philippe in 1842, therefore, were foreshadowed in Ultra-Tory sympathy for the French Revolution of 1830 and a continuing Country sensibility in support of his reign. Historians are increasingly aware of the important strain of opinion represented by the Ultra-Tories, within early to mid-nineteenth-century Conservatism, in so far as domestic political issues are concerned, where their views embraced a wide range of issues. Disraeli also gave guarded support to Peel's commercial policy during 1842-45, as 'founded on sound principles of commercial policy advocated by that great Tory Statesman, Lord Bolingbroke'.
