Benjamin Disraeli
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"Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield", Order of the Garter/KG, Privy Council of the United Kingdom/PC, Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS, was a British Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative politician, writer and aristocrat who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is, at 2015, the only British Prime Minister of British Jews/Jewish birth.

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