The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75
By: Mark Pitchford
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780719083631
Subjects: Politics and government; Konservative Partei (Grossbritannien); Conservative Party (Great Britain); Rechtsradikalismus; Right and left (Political science)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: The shock of opposition, 1945-51; title: Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival, 1951-57; title: Macmillan and Home : 'pink socialism' and 'true-blue' Conservatism, 1957-64; title: Edward Heath : a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70; title: 'Heathco' meets the extreme-right's challenge, 1970-75; title: Conclusion : keeping it right.