1 Nov 1834 Jahr - Start of Peel's first ministry

Beschreibung:

serious problems with the Tories:
- party divided: some more progressive Tories who had followed Canning joined the Whigs and the ultra Tories were still furious about Catholic Emancipation
- divided about parliamentary reform
- mood of the country was for change but the majority of Tories opposed it
- reform proposals would have ended a lot of Tory control of rotten boroughs
- didn't do well in the 1832 general election

Peel and parliamentary reform:
- if he opposed it he would be going against the considerable support for change in the country
- if he supported it he would be accused of helping the Whigs
- was clever about it by opposing reform in the debates of 1830-32 but not blocking it entirely by forming a government which would have abandoned it
- he kept a balance between opposing the Whigs yet not completely rejecting reform