[PDF file]: […] Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, held a significant post (albeit he calls it fagging) and featured much in Conservative counsel. Because the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, sat in the House of Lords, Butler as deputy had an unusually important role in the Commons, thus enhancing […]
[PDF file]: […] official Party policy. Wilson’s administration did not, however, accept the Conference 1 Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: Volume 2: 1945-60 (St Albans: Paladin, 1975), p. 559. Ted Heath’s Conservative Government had taken the UK into the EEC on 1 January 1973. He had promised to seek ‘the full-hearted consent of the British people’ for this […]
[PDF file]: […] could be extraordinarily kind, agreeable and thoughtful about individuals and people at large, lovable even, with a more inclusive vision of contemporary society than many in the Conservative Party’. Second, his ‘all-consuming self-absorption and self-belief that impelled him to be the most important and visible person . . . . He had no interest […]
[PDF file]: […] change face up to the constitutional obstacle that confronts them, the only progressive reforms to materialise will be 3 At the time it was natural for middle-of-the-road conservative people to believe the police portrayal of those miners as thugs. Evidence has emerged that the South Yorkshire Police may, in the post-battle investigations, have perverted […]
[PDF file]: […] before the UK is due to leave the EU. Why has the May administration embarked on this course? The answer lies in the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party. Ever since the eclipse of the Liberal Party by Labour in the 1920s, it became the political home of British capital. Entry into the European […]
[PDF file]: […] What of his political opinions? These are not that evident from his diaries it has to be said, but back in 1995, when he was already a Conservative MP, he had co-authored with Dominic Hobson a somewhat idiosyncratic ultra-Thatcherite volume, Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue. Some of the book’s […]
[PDF file]: […] Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941 Simon Matthews The writing of history is quite properly treated as a discipline. Many reputable historians, therefore, tend to be conservative, requiring multiple archival sources, an abundance of documentation and testimony from respectable eyewitnesses before reaching their conclusions. This often means that a very high level of […]
[PDF file]: […] (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at […]
[PDF file]: […] and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/Tory then Liberal/ Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially ‘fair’ but […]
[PDF file]: […] there. She never had. But, as a result, reports suggest she has been sentenced to an extra five years.’ With all this damning material by an important Conservative figure so readily The Times 29 August 2017 at or . 2 Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert […]
