Interestingly, the Palace of Westminster (a very late building) is considered by some as a monument to medieval & insular Tory tradition rather than classical expansionism. I remember your dad once describing the white building next to King’s Chapel as the “temple of Enlightenment rationalism”, and was rather pleased. :p

However, I fear we lost the battle with the election of the Liberals in 1906 (though their left wing did a lot of good work improving working conditions for labourers and children, led by Churchill and Lloyd George). The Marquess of Salisbury was the last proper Tory PM.

In fact, for the true purest the last “Tory” government proper (which was agrarian and isolationist) was before the Whig ascendancy of the late 18th Century. You really need to look back to Charles II, James II and Queen Anne for proper Toryism. The new Tories (or “friends of Mr. Pitt”) were a much more nationalistic and bellicose beast. Though on the imperialism front, Disraeli (seen by old-fashioned Tories as a populist) led the party into the height of its pith helmet-wearing, classical-governor’s-villa-building tendency.