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Michael Foot and the Labour leadership
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ISBN: 1283193140 1443832391 9786613193148 9781443832397 144383159X 9781443831598 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars

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Michael Foot's political career can simplistically be characterised by cataclysmic failures Otherin the period between 1979 and 1983, culminating in Labour's substantial electoral defeat. Developments Otherin political discourse have since sought to perpetuate this characterisation by utilising the defeat as a justification for the subsequent modernisations. However, this analysis does not entirely appreciate the significance of Foot's leadership. This book argues that far from being a disaste...


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Labour orators from Bevan to Miliband
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ISBN: 1781708584 9780719097959 0719097959 9781781708583 9780719089800 0719089808 0719097940 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester, UK

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How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancing their ideological arguments? How do orators seek to connect with different audiences in different settings such as parliament, party conference and through the media? This collection evaluates these questions as well as providing an extensive interrogation of the political and intellectual significance of oratory and rhetoric in the post-war Labour Party.

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Conservative orators from Baldwin to Cameron
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ISBN: 9781784991647 9781781708361 1781708363 1784991643 9780719097249 071909724X 9781784991654 Year: 2016 Publisher: Manchester

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How do Conservative politicians strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some proven more effective than others in advancing their positions and ideological agendas? How do they seek to connect with their audience in different settings? This book draws analytical inspiration from the Aristotelian modes of persuasion to shine new light upon the articulation of British conservatism, examining the oratory and rhetoric of twelve key figures from Conservative Party politics. The individuals featured are Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, Iain Macleod, Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine, John Major, William Hague, Boris Johnson and David Cameron.

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