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Victoria favoured Disraeli's Tory policies over those of his Liberal rival, William Ewart Gladstone.

When Disraeli became an earl in 1876 he automatically lost his seat in the Commons but remained prime minister, leading his government from the House of Lords.

His choice of title might have been partly influenced by the fact that in 1794 the conservative political philosopher and parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whom Disraeli admired, had turned down King George III's offer to raise him to the peerage as Lord Beaconsfield.

[1] In 1878, Disraeli refused Queen Victoria's offer to make him a duke,[2] accepting instead membership in the Order of the Garter.