Speak for Britain! - A New History of the Labour PartyPaperback
Appearing at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, "Speak for Britain " provides an original and challenging interpretation of Labour's evolution from its sectional trade union…
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Appearing at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, "Speak for Britain " provides an original and challenging interpretation of Labour's evolution from its sectional trade union origins to its present status as a national governing party. Making use of a wide range of primary sources as well as constituency party records that reveal the dynamics of membership recruitment and the adoption of candidates, Martin Pugh challenges many traditional accounts written from the perspective of the national leadership. Controversially, he argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming "the party of the working class." Rather than converting the whole working class to Socialism, it skillfully adapted itself to the variations in local and regional political cultures by making use of Victorian Liberal-Radical traditions in some areas and employing a populist Tory brand of
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