Heath and Thatcher in opposition / Eric Caines.

Author
Caines, Eric [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xiv, 314 pages ; 22 cm

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    This book traces how Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, during their respective years as Conservative Opposition Leaders (1965-70 and 1975-79), managed their Party's attempts to ensure a return to government, each after two electoral defeats. They did so in the context of an emergent New Conservatism, championed by the likes of Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph and Nigel Lawson, which betokened a long-term change from the post-war Butskellite settlement. Against a national background of declining economic status, high inflation, debilitating public sector strikes and internal Conservative Party debates, particularly over industrial relations policy and monetarism, they adopted strikingly different approaches to policy-making in Opposition. The book illustrates how, paradoxically, Heath's technocratic over-prescription failed to save his eventual premiership, while Thatcher's under-committed policy design failed to impede her leading a purposeful and transformative government in the 1980s.-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index.
    Contents
    • The nature of conservatism
    • Decline and fall I
    • Getting used to being out of office
    • Reasons (or excuses?) for failure
    • The road to Selsdon
    • Decline and fall II
    • The new conservatism
    • Keith Joseph's 'Third Crusade'
    • Internal warfare
    • The inflation nettle
    • The industrial relations nettle
    • Thatcher: ideologue or pragmatist?
    • Conclusion: Heath and Thatcher in opposition.
    ISBN
    • 1137602457
    • 9781137602459
    OCLC
    968448176
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