The Tories’ Death-Wish
Kenneth O. Morgan, 15 May 1980
Tariff Reform in British Politics
by Alan Sykes.
Oxford, 352 pp., £16, December 1979,0 19 822483 4 Show More
by Alan Sykes.
Oxford, 352 pp., £16, December 1979,
“... What baffles one is the persistence of the party in a cause that was politically so calamitous.’ These perceptive words by Lord Blake, the foremost historian of the Conservative Party, aptly sum up the handling of the issues of protective tariffs and imperial preference by the Conservative or Unionist Party between 1903 and 1914 ... ”