The Darth Vader Option
Colin Kidd: The Tories, 24 January 2013
The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change
by Tim Bale.
Oxford, 372 pp., £55, September 2012,978 0 19 923437 0 Show More
by Tim Bale.
Oxford, 372 pp., £55, September 2012,
The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 471 pp., £14.99, January 2011,978 0 7456 4858 3 Show More
by Tim Bale.
Polity, 471 pp., £14.99, January 2011,
Reconstructing Conservatism? The Conservative Party in Opposition, 1997-2010
by Richard Hayton.
Manchester, 166 pp., £60, September 2012,978 0 7190 8316 7 Show More
by Richard Hayton.
Manchester, 166 pp., £60, September 2012,
“... almost ineradicable. Bale’s previous book, The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron, like Richard Hayton’s Reconstructing Conservatism?, attempted to explain how the party lost its way for so long, and then, eventually, found a path back into office, though not to single-party government. As late as the Tory semi-recovery of 2005, Bale ... ”
