doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.1981.tb02797.xBILL*MILLER*JACK*BRAND*MAGGIE*JORDAN*WileyPolitical QuarterlyMiller William et al. 1981. Government without a Mandate: Its Causes and Consequences for the Conservative Party in Scotland. Political Quarterly 52...
We have ensured that a senior member of the Government shall be constantly in Scotland, and have already transferred from Whitehall to Scotland a variety of additional responsibilities. Next year, in accordance with the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Scottish Affairs, the Secretary of Stat...
Workers involved in a dispute have a right to trypeacefullyto persuade others to support them by picketing, but we believe that right should be limited to those in dispute picketing at their own place of work. In the last few years some of the picketing we have witnessed has gone much too...
The Conservative Party, free from dogma and free from dependence upon any single interest, is broadly based throughout the nation. It is our objective to win a clear majority in the House of Commons in this election. But we will use that majority above all to unite the nation. We will n...
Conservative Party (redirected fromThe Conservative Party) Thesaurus Encyclopedia n 1.(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) the major right-wing party, which developed from the Tories in the 1830s. It advocates a mixed economy, and encourages property owning and free enterprise. In full...
nationalist and republican aspirations. Scotland's Unionist Party was independent of the Conservatives until 1965. Similarly the Ulster Unionist Party supported the Conservatives for many decades in the House of Commons and traditionally took the Conservative whip. In contrast to Scotland,...
In a dramatic night, which saw the Scottish Nationalists (SNP) become an effective one-party state in Scotland, Cameron’s Conservative Party gained at the expense of Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Opinion polls had predicted more power sharing for Blighty as Conservative and Labour appeared ...
Devolution and party change in the Scottish and Welsh Conservative Parties, 1997-2011 This thesis compares the adaptation to devolution of the sub-state branches of the statewide UK Conservative Party in Scotland and Wales between 1997 and 2... Convery,Alan - 《University of Strathclyde》 被引量...
But after four years of Labour, the way we govern ourselves has been abused. We have an arrogant and complacent Government which ignores Parliament and people. We have the anomaly of MPs from Scotland and Northern Ireland voting on laws that apply only to England and Wales. The House of Lo...
Johnson's Conservatives, much like the main opposition Labour Party, have a tough task to win back voters in Scotland, and the British leader is taking steps to try to counter the SNP's message by boosting a special unit in Downing Street. It is as yet unclear whether th...