In the article are analyzed the books devoted to evolution of the British conservative party from M. Thatcher till D. Cameron and prospects of conservatism in modern England. Distinction of approaches and the points of view of authors allows to see a problematic opened by them in the different foreshortenings. One historians as a whole positively estimate the modernization of the party which have been carried out by Cameron and his command, other authors consider it as threat of identity of the British conservatism and see rescue in creation of "original" conservative party on the basis of its right wing, the true Tories.