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Business Interests and the British Conservative Party

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Wyn Grant
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS INTERESTS AND THE British Conservative Party is a matter of crucial importance which is relatively neglected in the existing literature. The basic theme of this article is that this relationship is more problematic and tenuous than is often assumed to be the case. Relations between business interests and the Conservative Government elected in 1979 are likely to be characterized by recurrent tensions on questions of economic and industrial policy.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1980 , pp. 143 - 161
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1980

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