Book description
TORY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is an authoritative but highly accessible
account of the Conservative Party's social attitudes from the 1950s to
the present day, with a particular focus on homosexual law reform and
equal rights for LGBT citizens. Presented in the context of
contemporary social and political developments, it draws upon
extensive primary research and exclusive interviews to chart the
party's progress from a stubborn unwillingness to decriminalise
homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, via tacit acceptance in the
1970s and Section 28 in the 1980s and 1990s, to the current
Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government, which has produced
the first comprehensive statement on equal rights in British history.
MICHAEL MCMANUS is a Director at Bell Pottinger Public Affairs.
He writes regularly for THE GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY POST and
GRAMOPHONE. A former Conservative parliamentary candidate, he
researched and drafted Sir Edward Heath's prize-winning autobiography
and wrote the first biography of former Liberal leader Jo Grimond.
