The main parties’ cosy alliance is about to be blown apart by Nigel Farage’s Eurosceptics Nigel Farage's Ukip are riding high in the polls The modern history of the Conservative Party has been poorly understood, mainly because it has been written by the winner – the modernising faction that undermined the leadership of William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith before seizing control after the 2005 election defeat. These modernisers like to portray recent Tory history as a victory for change, pragmatism, progress and sanity. But this relentlessly optimistic account ignores the central truth: the Conservative Party formally split in the decade that followed the political assassination of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The first manifestation of this split was the creation of the Anti-Federalist League by the distinguished historian Alan Sked… Read More
As the landscape starts to shift, Ukip can create political havoc
Saturday, 5 November 2011
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