If you analyse it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less Government interference or less centralised authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.