Choosing the Tory Leader Conservative Party Leadership Elections from Heath to Cameron

This book provides a comprehensive and timely examination of Conservative Party leadership elections since 1965. Timothy Heppell observes how the dominance of ideology has been immensely disadvantageous to post-Thatcherite Conservatism. Rather than empowering incumbents to project their leadership credentials outwards to the electorate and against their Labour counterparts, successive Conservative Party leaders have been increasingly forced to look inwards, devoting crucial time to the complexities of intra-party management and the threats against them from rivals from within the parliamentary party.Heppell, Timothy is the author of 'Choosing the Tory Leader Conservative Party Leadership Elections from Heath to Cameron', published 2007 under ISBN 9781845114862 and ISBN 1845114868.