Revision of leadership election procedures in the conservative party

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 260-274

  Alderman, Keith ^a  

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EID: 0033114838     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/52.2.260     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. 1 See K. Alderman, 'Legislating on Maastricht', Contemporary Record, Winter 1993 and ' The Passage of the European Communities (Finance) Act (1995), Contemporary British History, Autumn 1996.
2. 1 See K. Alderman, 'Legislating on Maastricht', Contemporary Record, Winter 1993 and ' The Passage of the European Communities (Finance) Act (1995), Contemporary British History, Autumn 1996.
3. 2 See K. Alderman, 'The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1995', Parliamentary Affairs, April 1996.
4. 3 K. Alderman, 'Electing the Leader of the Conservative Party: Revision of the Rules', Public Law, 1992.
5. 4 R. Shepherd, The Power Brokers: The Tory Party and its Leaders (Hutchinson, 1991), p. 66.
6. 5 National Union Working Party Report, Possible Reforms to the National Union, 1996.Sir Philip Goodhart, a former secretary of the 1922 Committee, admitted: 'As an officer of the 1922 Committee, I remember listening politely to the advice of Conservative peers and officers of the National Union, but I cannot recall that it had any noticeable impact on the result of leadership elections', Daily Telegraph, 15.5.97.
7. National Union Working Party Report, Possible Reforms to the National Union, 1996.Sir Philip Goodhart, a former secretary of the 1922 Committee, admitted: 'As an officer of the 1922 Committee, I remember listening politely to the advice of Conservative peers and officers of the National Union, but I cannot recall that it had any noticeable impact on the result of leadership elections', Daily Telegraph, 15.5.97.
8. 6 Hamilton, whose speech was jeered from the conference floor, was compared by one activist to 'a town councillor from Jurassic Park'.
9. 7 K. Alderman and N. Carter, 'A Very Tory Coup: the Ousting of Mrs Thatcher', Parliamentary Affairs, Spring 1991.
10. 8 This aspect of those rules, which were devised by a committee chaired by Sir Alec Douglas-Home, came to be known as 'Sir Alec's revenge' because of the obstacle it presented to Heath when his leadership was challenged in 1975.
11. 9 Conservative Democratic Movement, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1998, p. 4.
12. 10 K. Alderman, 'The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1997', Parliamentary Affairs, April 1998.