The party's over : the rise and fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak /

Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organization. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get Brexit Done.' And beyond this, it is an i...

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Main Author: Burton-Cartledge, Phil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, 2023.
Edition:Updated second edition.
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Summary:Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organization. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get Brexit Done.' And beyond this, it is an intellectual vacuum, propped up by half-baked doctrine and magical thinking. The Party's Over offers an explanation for how the Tory party came to position itself on the edge of the precipice and offers a series of answers to a question seldom addressed. As the party is poised to press the self-destruct button, what kind of role and future can it have?
Item Description:First published by Verso in 2021 under the title: Falling down : the Conservative Party and the decline of Tory Britain.
Physical Description:360 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1839760370
9781839760372