A political party supporting agricultural rather than manufacturing interests.
〈史〉乡村党（维护农业而非制造业利益的政党）
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This could help the Tories because they do show themselves as the country party rather than the town party.
His familiarity with a Tory radicalism rooted in the ideas of the country party enabled him, as well as the popular radicals, to draw on the republican tradition.
By the 1760s all politicians regarded themselves loosely as Whigs, but the term was appropriated by the old corps who had regrouped as an aristocratic country party led by Rockingham.
When the National Party formed in the 20s, it prided itself on being the country party.
For a start, similar beliefs, often tied back to the civic republicanism of the country party, exercised a lingering influence on Tory radicalism and even popular loyalism.