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The Failure of the Heath Government

By Martin Holmes (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-0-333-71607-6, 978-0-230-37611-3
DOI
10.1057/9780230376113
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23006324 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XX, 164\180
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
British Politics; Political Science; Political The

Description

After its fall in 1974 the Heath government was widely accepted to have been a failure both by Conservative free market critics and by those on the left. By the late 1990s, however, several revisionist studies portrayed the Heath government more favourably exonerating Heath from culpability for the economic and industrial meltdown of 1972-4. This book seeks to refute this picture of a tragic yet heroic administration by showing the full extent of the economic, political and electoral misjudgements of the Heath government which left to the Conservative party, and to the British people, only the lessons of failure.

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