Tamworth Manifesto

Tamworth Manifesto ( 1834 )
The election address of Sir Robert Peel to his constituents at Tamworth, Staffordshire. Peel promised to accept the Whig government's Reform Act of 1832 . He declared his adherence to a policy of moderate reform, while stressing the need to preserve what was most valuable from Britain's past. This concept of change, where necessary, within existing institutions marked the shift from the old, repressive Toryism to a new, more enlightened Conservatism.