The conservative parliamentary party

The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 66-81

  Cowley, Philip ^a   Stuart, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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References (19)

1. P. Riddell, 'Tories have yet to face up to their new status', The Times, 9 October 1997.
2. A. Seldon, Major. A Political Life (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), p. 3; P. Webster, 'Major vents anger at rebels', The Times, 8 October 1997.
3. P. Webster, 'Major vents anger at rebels', The Times, 8 October 1997.
4. T. Blair, speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party, Church House, London, 7 May 1997.
5. A. Roth and B. Criddle, New MPs of 1997 and Retreads (London, Parliamentary Profiles Services Ltd, 1997), p. i.
6. B. Criddle, 'MPs and Candidates', in D. Butler and D. Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1997 (London, Macmillan, 1997), p. 202. In the 2001 volume, D. Butler and D. Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2001 (London, Palgrave, 2002) erroneously claim that the figure was eleven (p. 39). Things may have been bad, but they were not that bad.
7. G. Brandreth, Breaking the Code (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p. 472.
8. Cowley, 'Just William', pp. 91-2.
9. See P. Cowley, Revolts and Rebellions: Parliamentary Voting Under Blair (London, Politico's, 2002), Table 10.1.
10. D. Van Mechelen and R. Rose, Patterns of Parliamentary Legislation (Aldershot, Gower, 1986). More generally, see R. Rose, Do Parties Make A Difference? (London, Macmillan, 1980).
11. Compare Cowley, Revolts and Rebellions, Chs 5 and 10.
12. See H. Marsh and D. Marsh, 'Tories in the killing fields', Journal of Legislative Studies, forthcoming.
13. M. White, 'Rebels ruin day 1000 showdown', Guardian, 27 January 2000.
14. P. Norton, Dissension in the House of Commons, 1945-74 (London, Macmillan, 1975), p. 389.
15. P. Norton, 'Parliament', in A. Seldon (ed.), The Blair Effect (London, Little, Brown & Company, 2001), p. 51.
16. P. Norton, 'The Conservative leadership election', British Politics Group Newsletter, 106 (2001), p. 12.
17. Simon Walters, Tory Wars (London, Politico's, 2001), p. 207.
18. Walters, Tory Wars, p. 212. Norton, 'The Conservative leadership election', discusses the extent to which Portillo had (and had not) shifted in his ideological beliefs.
19. G. Jones, 'The choice is Europe or Thatcherism', Daily Telegraph, 18 July 2001.