Overview
Assesses how these two leaders controlled and directed the Conservative party to revive its electoral appeal
Provides insight into how the Conservative Party developed policies in the sixties and seventies
Traces the spectrum of Conservatism from Butskellism to Thatcherism
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 i
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eric Caines was a career civil servant who served at senior levels in Whitehall, UK, and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. He has written prolifically on management matters and is an expert on industrial relations, particularly as they interface with politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heath and Thatcher in Opposition
Authors: Eric Caines
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60246-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60245-9Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95883-2Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60246-6Published: 06 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 314
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Political History, History of Modern Europe, British Politics, Modern History