The Conservative Party and the extreme right, 1945-75 [electronic resource] / Mark Pitchford.
Publication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: viii, 243 pISBN:- 071908363X
- 9780719083631
- 9781847794123 (e-book)
- 324.24104 22
- JN1129.C7 P58 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
The shock of opposition, 1945-51 -- Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival, 1951-57 -- Macmillan and Home : 'pink socialism' and 'true-blue' Conservatism, 1957-64 -- Edward Heath : a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70 -- 'Heathco' meets the extreme-right's challenge, 1970-75 -- Conclusion : keeping it right.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.