Defectors and the Liberal Party 19102010: A Study of Inter-Party Relationships

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This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was

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Students of British political history will find much to enjoy here. The authors rich research pays dividends in contextualising each defection and it gives a valuable new perspective on the decline of the Liberal Party over the past one hundred years and their oft-overlooked cultural ties with the Conservatives.

"Dr Wyburn-Powell travelled far and laboured hard in the various archives to gather his fascinating material. His numerous research trips have certainly yielded fruit to enrich his truely pioneering, proundbreaking study"

(Dr J.Graham Jones, National Library of Wales, Journal of Liberal History 82, 2014)

It is recommended without reservation to historians and interested observers of British Politics.

Author Bio

Alun Wyburn-Powell is a Lecturer at the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester and at the Department of Journalism at City University, London