Titlebook: Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918; The Politics of Prom David Thackeray,Richard Toye Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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,‘I Promise You This. I Won’t Make Empty Promises’. The Election Manifestos of Margaret Thatcher,n of ‘electoral bribes’ during the 1960s and 1970s and a growing sense of overload in government. Finally, this chapter considers the impact that Thatcher had on the culture of election promises. Arguably, her key legacy as an author of manifestos was in inspiring the pledge-making of New Labour.

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Election Promises and Anti-promises After the Great War,It makes numerous interesting findings, in particular that the majority of references to promises and pledges were actually attacks on those offered by opponents. In 1918, it finds that Conservatives moved away from the old language of party and towards a communitarian appeal to nation in framing pr

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,‘A Fighting Man to Fight for You’: The Armed Forces, Ex-Servicemen, and British Electoral Politics rs, and airmen who had fought in the world wars sought election to the House of Commons, and ex-servicemen became one of the best-represented occupational groups in Parliament. This chapter explores the ways in which these aspirant MPs constructed their appeals to voters. It examines the promises th

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Broken Promises and the Remaking of Political Trust: Debating Reconstruction in Britain During the fervour of debate about reconstruction in the 1940s. This chapter offers an interpretation of the political culture of Britain in the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the much-discussed ‘leftward’ shift in public opinion and the specific areas of policy that shaped the platform for the Labo

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