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Author

Pitchford, Mark.

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

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Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	viii, 243 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Conservative Party (Great Britain)
	Right and left (Political science) -- Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964.
	Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1964-1979.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	071908363X
	9780719083631
	9781847794123 (electronic bk.)