Why did political parties emerge?
In England, there were two political groups in parliament they were sort of clubs for MP’s and Lords in the 1700’s. The Kings friends were nicknamed ‘Torys’ and the Kings opponents were called Whigs. In the late 1800’s when the electoral franchise started to expand to include almost all adult men, these groups had to organise outside parliament, with the Tories becoming the Conservative Party and the Whigs merging with other parliamentary factions to become the Liberal Party.
