Policy Reform and the Politics of Housing in the British Conservative Party 1924-1929.(Critical Essay)

From: The Australian Journal of Politics and History | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The author explores the development of the British Conservative Party. Information regarding the party's formation, political goals, and reasoning for their position on housing reform are discussed.

This paper examines an important period in the development of the modern British Conservative Party. The changing patterns of electoral support in the first decade after the first world war required the Conservatives to recast their policies to appeal to the new electorate. Many historians of this period see the development of policy at this time as signalling a shift in the Party that ...

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