The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75

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.

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1. Verfasser: Pitchford, Mark
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.