By Mark Garnett
This booklet outlines and evaluates the political considered the Conservative celebration via a close exam of its primary thinkers from Harold Macmillan to the present.
Traditionally, the Conservative get together has been considered as a vote-gathering laptop instead of a automobile for ideas. This ebook redresses the stability via a chain of biographical essays analyzing the concept of these who've contributed so much to the improvement of rules in the celebration. The chapters reap the benefits of archival study and interviews with best Conservatives. the hot revival of Conservative fortunes makes the booklet fairly timely.
The ebook starts off with an introductory bankruptcy explaining the position of ideology within the Conservative occasion. It then strains the political considered the Conservative social gathering via its significant theorists because the Thirties. those are Harold Macmillan, R. A. Butler, Quintin Hogg, Enoch Powell, Angus Maude, Keith Joseph, the ‘traditionalists’ (Maurice Cowling, T. E. ‘Peter’ Utley, Peregrine Worsthorne, Shirley Letwin and Roger Scruton), Ian Gilmour, John Redwood and David Willetts. The e-book concludes with an total evaluate of the political considered the Conservative occasion and the relevance of prior debates for modern Conservatism.
The booklet should be of substantial curiosity to lecturers and non-academics alike; if you happen to have a unique curiosity within the Conservative social gathering but additionally for any scholar of latest British Politics.
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Butler and Churchill both recognised that it was easier to get Conservative agreement on education than on issues which more directly ‘involve property or pocket’; thus, progressive policies on education could deflect attention from the lack of Conservative-inspired progress on other social issues. 10 But in the short term, at least, he was the political beneficiary of this materialistic turn, since it promoted a show of cross-party unity as his Education Bill passed into law. Arguably, then, Butler’s first big contribution to Conservative policy was only possible because it took place at a time when his party was participating in a coalition government and thus had to take into account the aspirations of more radical allies.
Butler, ‘A Disraelian Approach to Modern Politics’, in Tradition and Change: Nine Oxford Lectures (CPC, London, 1954), p. 10; D. Seawright, ‘One Nation’, in K. ), The Political Thought of the Conservative Party Since 1945 (Palgrave, London, 2005), pp. 79–80. 36╇╇ Dell, The Chancellors, p. 203. 37╇╇ Butler, Art of the Possible, p. 156. 38╇╇ K. Jefferys, The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics 1940–1945 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1991), p. 215; Harris, Politics Without Prejudice, p.
30╇╇ Garnett, Alport, pp. 64, 62. 31╇╇ C. J. M. Alport Talks With You About Conservative Principles (CPC, London, 1946), pp. 3–12. 32╇╇ See, for example, P. Cosgrave, The Lives of Enoch Powell (The Bodley Head, London, 1989), p. 101. 33╇╇ R. Walsha, ‘The One Nation Group: A Tory Approach to Backbench Politics and Organization, 1950–55’, Twentieth Century British History, 11:2, 2000, p. 213. 34╇╇ Macleod and Maude (eds), One Nation, pp. 73, 61. 35╇╇ R. A. Butler, ‘A Disraelian Approach to Modern Politics’, in Tradition and Change: Nine Oxford Lectures (CPC, London, 1954), p.
