Tory Boy was a character in a television sketch by comedian Harry Enfield, portraying a young, male supporter of the Conservative Party.
[1] Tory Boy was depicted as a repulsive thirteen-year-old with glaringly outdated beliefs about society and the world in general.
Enfield based the character on a snobbish, unpopular boy he knew in school, and a younger version of William Hague, who was a prominent member of the Young Conservatives group from his teenage years and famously delivered a speech at the Conservative Party's annual national conference at age 16.
William Hague, for instance, struggled to shake off the stereotype and was often ridiculed for it both before and during his leadership of the party.
[4] In Enfield's 1997 TV Christmas Special, aired months after Labour's landslide victory in the UK General Election, a sketch featured Tory Boy's left-wing father wishing that his son would join the Labour Party.