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Can Heath be Understood by the Tories? - Philip Norton, Conservative Dissidents, 1970–1974, London, Maurice Temple Smith, 1978, 331 pp., £10.OO.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

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References

1 On this see Mellors, Colin, The British MP, London, Sage, 1978.Google Scholar

2 The distinction is made by Rose, Richard in his article ‘Parties, Factions and Tendencies’, Political Studies, Vol. XII, 1964, pp. 346.Google Scholar

3 Norton, Philip, Dissension in the House of Commons 1945–74, London, Macmillan, 1975.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Gilmour, Ian, The Body Politic, London, Hutchinson, 1971, p. 261.Google Scholar Quoted by Norton at p. 164.

5 On this see Norton, P.Intra‐Party Dissent in the House of Commons: A Case Study. The Immigration Rules 1972’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol XXIX, 1976.Google Scholar

6 On this see the recent study by Russel, T., The Tory Party: Its Policies, Divisions and Future, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1978 Google Scholar, which, though exaggerated in places underlines the plight of the Tory Left.

7 The orthodoxy here comes from Finer, S. E., Berrington, Hugh & Bartholomew, D. J., Buckbench Opinion in the House of Commons, Oxford, Pergamon, 1961.Google Scholar

8 On this see Gamble, Andrew, The Conservative Nation, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.Google Scholar

9 Griffith, J. G., Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills, London, PEP, 1974.Google Scholar