Tories and the Welfare State: A History of Conservative Social Policy since the Second World War [Paperback]

This book is concerned with home affairs or social policy in the British system - in particular in education, health, housing, social security and aspects of the Home Office's work. It handles the subject in terms of what the Conservative Party thought and did about it from 1939 to 1988.1939-45: coalition; 1949-51: parallel lines; 1951-56: back in government; 1957-64: the middle ground; 1964-70: Heath in opposition; 1970-74: Heath in governemnt; 1974-79: the coming of Thatcher; 1979-83: Thatcher in government; 1983-87: the tempo mounts; 1987-88: the flagships launched; the evolving agenda; responsibility and the underdog.