Gamble, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-4272 (2016) The Conservatives and the Union: The 'New English Toryism' and the Origins of Anglo-Britishness. Political Studies Review, 14 (3). pp. 359-367. ISSN 1478-9299
Abstract
The Union has for over a century been one of the cornerstones of Conservative politics, but with the changes to the old union state in the last 20 years, its value has been increasingly questioned. While the Conservative Party remains committed to maintaining the Union, a new English Toryism is emerging, which has a strong continuity with an older English Toryism which was partially buried by the ascendancy of Unionism. English Tories have always considered the Union to be desirable, but it comes second in their thinking to the need to protect the sovereignty of the British state, the core of which is England and its traditional institutions. What is new about the contemporary Conservative Party is that there is within it the revival of an English Toryism which is happy to discard the older clothes of Empire and Union once so important to Conservative identity and which is unabashedly English in its focus. For an increasing number of contemporary Conservatives, there no longer seems to be any passion about defending the Union or even of continuing to think about the United Kingdom in Unionist terms.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Political Studies Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Conservatives; Englishness; Toryism; Union; devolution |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2016 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2016 14:42 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929916649614 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1478929916649614 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109073 |