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    The Strange Death of Tory Liverpool: Conservative Electoral Decline in Liverpool, 1945-1996

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    Volume
    12
    Pagination
    386 - 407 (21)
    Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
    Publisher URL
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-016-0032-6
    DOI
    10.1057/s41293-016-0032-6
    Journal
    British Politics
    Issue
    3
    ISSN
    1746-9198
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    Abstract
    In modern discourse Liverpool is a by-word for anti-Tory sentiment, yet the city has not always been so inhospitable for the Conservatives. From the mid-18th century until the 1970s the Conservatives dominated the city council and often held over half of Liverpool’s parliamentary constituencies. Whilst popular opinion ascribes Conservative decline in Liverpool to Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, it began a decade before Thatcher gained power. This article argues that Conservative decline in Liverpool was due to the increasing inability of socialisation to create new Conservative voters, coupled with dissatisfaction with the Heath government and a rejection of unresponsive local party machines. The Liberal Party, through their use of pavement politics, were able to exploit these issues. Their 1973 local election victory allowed them to displace the Conservatives as the main opposition to Labour in most of the city, thus beginning the strange death of Tory Liverpool. Liverpool, Conservative Party decline, working class Conservatism, socialisation, Liverpool Liberal Party
    Authors
    JEFFERY, DMJ
    URI
    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/16242
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    • School of Politics and International Relations [726]
    Language
    English
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