The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75 [electronic resource] / Mark Pitchford.
By: Pitchford, Mark.
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BookPublisher: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: viii, 243 p.Subject(s): Conservative Party (Great Britain) | Right and left (Political science) -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964 | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 324.24104 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The shock of opposition, 1945-51 -- Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival, 1951-57 -- Macmillan and Home : 'pink socialism' and 'true-blue' Conservatism, 1957-64 -- Edward Heath : a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70 -- 'Heathco' meets the extreme-right's challenge, 1970-75 -- Conclusion : keeping it right.
Shows how the Conservative Party, realising that its well-documented pre-Second World War connections with the extreme right were now embarrassing, used its bureaucracy to implement a policy of investigating extreme right groups and taking action to minimise their chances of success.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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