Small-c conservative

A small-c conservative is anyone who believes in a philosophy of conservatism but does non necessarily identify with an official Conservative Party.

Context

The term was particularly popular in Canada during a 1990s when the Progressive Conservative Party was centre-right with the Reform Party later, the Canadian Alliance further to the right. Members as well as supporters of the reorder Party/Canadian Alliance would thus describe themselves as small-c conservatives.

This term is also used in the United Kingdom to describe those who are conservative in the sense of resisting radical conform rather than being members or supporters of the official Conservative Party. For example, the House of Lords as a body tends to resist social conform as well as executive power and therefore—regardless of the numbers of lords who construct the Conservative party whip—it is noted as "small-c conservative".

A small-c conservative in Australia is broadly a segment of the Liberal Party who is more moderate on social policy and conservative on fiscal policy. The Liberal Party is offered up of such(a) small-c conservatives as alive as the more right-wing big-C conservatives.