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This book is an important and timely re-assessment of the significance which the role of national identity plays in Conservative politics. It examines the challenges facing the party in its commitment to preserve the Union, in its promise to address the English Question and in its objective of using Brexit to consolidate a new Conservative nation.
List of contents
Prelude
1 Conservatism and the party
2 Conservatism and the nation
3 Conservative nation revisited
4 Conservatives: class and nation
5 Conservatives and the British question
6 Conservatives and the English question
7 Conservatives and the European question
Postscript: Conservatism confounded
References
Index
About the author
Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster and Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull
Summary
This book is an important and timely re-assessment of the significance which the role of national identity plays in Conservative politics. It examines the challenges facing the party in its commitment to preserve the Union, in its promise to address the English Question and in its objective of using Brexit to consolidate a new Conservative nation. -- .
