A history of the Conservative Party in Europe

The Conservative Party and Europe (2011)

Ben Patterson has been involved in Conservative policy on Europe since as a young man in the early 1960s his first job was as a tutor at Swinton Conservative College, lecturing on the Common Market as it was then known. He draws on more than five decades of personal experience to explore not just the high politics but also the deeper currents of change among the party rank-and-file; and on his experience in European politics (including three terms as a Member of the European Parliament) to make an unusual excursion into the resemblances and contrasts between British Conservatism and European Christian Democracy.

The book will be welcomed as a sober and serious-minded history in a field where much of the literature throws more heat than it does light.

Publication Date: 25 November 2011

CONTENTS
Foreword, by Ken Clarke MP
Preface
1. The Churchill Legacy
2. The Macmillan Application
3. Finding a Role
4. Preparing the Ground
5. Membership and Referendum
6. Direct Elections
7. The Years of “Maggie’s Money”
8. Towards the Single Market
9. Bruges and After
10. ERM and EMU
11. The Battle for Maastricht
12. Into the Cold
13. No Longer the Party of Europe
14. The Constitutional Treaty
15. The Road to Recovery
16. 1945 – 2010: An Analysis
17. Conservative European Policy and the Future
Appendix 1: Conservatism and Christian Democracy
Appendix 2: Chronology of Man Events
Appendix 3: Tables
Bibliography
Index

• ISBN: 978-0-9564508-7-6
• Publisher: John Harper Publishing
• Author: Ben Patterson
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback

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