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{{'}}'''Tackers'''{{'}} was the name given to [[High Tory]] Members of Parliament who in 1704 tried to attach ('tack') an [[Occasional Conformity Act 1711|Occasional Conformity Bill]] to [[money bill]]s in order to pass it through the [[House of Lords]] and into law.<ref>James Richards, ''Party Propaganda Under Queen Anne: The General Elections of 1702–1713'', (Charlotte, 1972), p. 56.</ref>
The Tackers ultimately failed in their efforts, but their actions proved highly polarising in the [[1705 English general election]]. While there were some successful [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] campaigns to unseat Tacker MPs, some parts of the country had the [[Tories (British political party)|Tories]] successfully campaign under the rallying cry of '[[Church in Danger]]', with the Tackers' efforts being positively seen as an effort to protect the established [[Church of England]] from [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformists]] and Dissent.
The Tackers' actions caused [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] to turn away from their party as the [[War of Spanish Succession]] continued for the next decade. Instead, she added more Whigs to her government, leading to the revival of the [[Whig Junto]].<ref>Robert Bucholz and Newton Key, ''Early Modern England 1485–1714: A Narrative History'', (Oxford, 2009), p. 341.</ref>
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