Third Party (British political faction)
Third Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | William Windham |
| Founded | February 1793 |
| Dissolved | January 1794 |
| Preceded by | Foxites |
| Merged into | Portlandites |
| Headquarters | 106 Pall Mall, London |
| Ideology | Conservatism Anti-Jacobinism Interventionism Anti-radicalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| House of Commons (1793) | 38 / 558
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The Third Party (or the Alarmists) was a late 18th-century British political faction formed by politicians who had seceded from the Foxite Whig faction of Charles James Fox in the aftermath of the Execution of Louis XVI and Fox's perceived sympathies for the French Revolution. The faction, led by conservative Whig William Windham, ceased to engage in systematic opposition to the Pitt government while remaining independent of it and supporting its war policy.