In European country, history ignores Tory voting privilege (9)
I believe the answer is:
franchise
'voting privilege' is the definition.
'in european country history ignores tory' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'european country' becomes 'france' (France is an example**).
'ignores' suggests deleting specific letters.
'history' with 'tory' taken away is 'his'.
'france' going around 'his' is 'FRANCHISE'.
(Other definitions for franchise that I've seen before include "Rights assigned by authorisation" , "Commercial agreement giving marketing rights" , "The right to vote in a parliamentary election." , "Authorisation to engage in specific commercial activity" , "permit being provided" .)