The Ideological Composition of the Parliamentary Conservative Party from Thatcher to May
This chapter identifies how opinion within the parliamentary Conservative Party has evolved and changed from Thatcher to May. It considers each of the parliaments since 1987 and assesses the opinion of each Conservative parliamentarian in relation to the
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Thatcherism in the 21st Century
Antony Mullen • Stephen Farrall David Jeffery Editors
Thatcherism in the 21st Century The Social and Cultural Legacy
Editors Antony Mullen Department of English Studies Durham University Durham, UK David Jeffery Department of Politics University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK
Stephen Farrall Department of Criminology and Social Sciences University of Derby Derby, UK
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 Antony Mullen, Stephen Farrall, and David Jeffery Part I Ideologies 13 2 The Ideological Composition of the Parliamentary Conservative Party from Thatcher to May 15 Timothy Heppell 3 Intellectual Reactions to Thatcherism: Conceptions of Citizenship and Civil Society from 1990–2010 35 Edmund Neill 4 Data-Driven Government: The Triumph of Thatcherism or the Revenge of Society? 55 Kieron O’Hara Part II Regions 75 5 ‘Rolling Back the Frontiers of the State, Only to See Them Re-imposed in Docklands?’: Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine and the Contested Parenthood of Canary Wharf 77 Jack Brown v
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6 ‘The Jezebel Who Sought to Destroy Israel in a Day’: Margaret Thatcher’s Impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1984–1990 99 Fiona McKelvey 7 ‘The Iron Lady? She Devastated the Country’: Former Scottish Steelworkers’ Narratives of Unions, Community and Thatcherism117 James Ferns 8 Thatcherism and Wales: Impacts and Legacies139 Sam Blax
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