The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75 [electronic resource] / Mark Pitchford.

By: Pitchford, MarkContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: viii, 243 pISBN: 9781847794123 (electronic bk.)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 LOC classification: JN1129.C7 | P58 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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