[ noun ] British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881) <noun.person>
The author wrecks the famous story of Disraeli saying on being served with champagne after a series of tepid dishes 'Thank God for something warm at last' by substituting 'wine' for 'champagne'.
Disraeli went on to become prime minister, launch the modern period of imperialism and help fashion the Tory creed into a popular movement.
Mr Willetts is too young to claim a place alongside Disraeli or Salisbury, let alone Burke.
Disraeli's proclamation of Victoria as 'Empress of India' was the final triumph, presenting the monarchy as the emblem of imperial unity. The monarchy has remained largely stuck in this Victorian groove.
Nearly a century and a half ago, Disraeli warned of the creation of the "two nations," a British national community divided by both economic and cultural disparities.
Gladstone, Disraeli and Pitt do not even make the index.
Mr. Disraeli was a supreme pragmatist who launched the modern Conservative Party on the strength of stealing and adapting rival Liberal plans for parliamentary reform in 1867.
To which Disraeli replied: "The former, sir, only if I embrace your politics; the latter if I embrace your mistress."
From Einstein in science to Trotsky and Disraeli in politics, secular Jews did not stop being a light unto the gentiles; they cast light into hitherto darkened corners.
The leader of the opposition is free to try to tug his party towards the gentler form of conservatism that better suits the English temperament. He calls it social-ism, but its values have often been prescribed by Tories from Disraeli onwards.
For much of his early life he was teetering on the brink of ruin. Disraeli in his youth was involved in numerous sexual as well as financial imbroglios.
Benjamin Disraeli was one of the few political leaders who had to be cajoled into becoming chancellor of the exchequer.
The invocation of Disraeli and Burke is not a sufficient means of binding together a package of disparate policies, most of whose origins can be traced back to the Thatcher years.