Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019

From Winston Churchill to Nick Clegg, Tony Blair to Nigel Farage, elite British politicians have privately and publicly toyed with the concept of co-operating with their competitors. Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019 takes a historical-comparative look at seven such cases from the last 80 years.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Churchill and the Liberal Party 1945-1951


• 3: A 'Government of National Unity'? February-October 1974


• 4: The Formation of the Lib-Lab Pact, 1976-1977


• 5: The Formation of the SDP and the Alliance, 1979-1981


• 6: The Blair-Ashdown Project and Lib-Lab Politics, 1992-1999


• 7: The Formation and Continuation of the Coalition Government, 2007-2015


• 8: The Cross-Party Politics of Brexit, June 2017-December 2019


• Conclusion

About the author

Dr Alan Wager has taught British and European politics at Queen Mary University of London, King's College London, and the LSE, and held an Archival By-Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. As the UK worked through the politics of Brexit, he spent five years at the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe. He now works in public insight for a major public policy not-for-profit organization and writes on British politics in the national media.

Summary

From Winston Churchill to Nick Clegg, Tony Blair to Nigel Farage, elite British politicians have privately and publicly toyed with the concept of co-operating with their competitors. Cross-Party Politics in Britain, 1945-2019 takes a historical-comparative look at seven such cases from the last 80 years.

Additional text

This is an insightful, readable and clear study of recent decades in Westminster.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Wager, Dr Alan (Teaching Associate Wager
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2024
• EAN: 9780192873187
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287318-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government policies, Political parties and party platforms, Central government policies