Parliamentary Affairs articles from January 1998

Parliamentary Affairs archives from January 1998

The Conservative Party leadership election of 1997. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... MUCH has been made of the fact that the Conservative leadership election of 1997--the fourth in nine years--gave the party its youngest leader. But the contest had a number of other distinctive features which have received less attention. It...

The Earl of Stockton's critique of Thatcherism. (Conservative government, United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Macmillan)
January 1, 1998... ON 19 JUNE 1997, William Hague triumphed over Kenneth Clarke to become Leader of the Conservative Party in succession to John Major. The most noticeable feature of the changeover from Major to Hague was the sense of restoration which surrounded...

'Cash for questions': Parliament's response to the offence that dare not speak its name. (corruption in government, United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... NEIL HAMILTON was elected Conservative MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 1983. With a reputation as an uncompromising Thatcherite, enhanced by a successful libel case against the BBC,[1] he used the time for reaching junior minister office to...

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards: lessons from the 'cash for questions' inquiry. (corruption in government, United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... IN JULY 1997 the report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir Gordon Downey, into the `cash for questions' affair was published.[1] The inquiry, which investigated allegations against 25 MPs, was extensive. Over 60 witnesses gave...

Lords of all they surveyed? Churchill's ministerial 'overlords' 1951-1953. (Winston Churchill, United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... THE APPOINTMENT of John Prescott as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions revived faded memories of Winston Churchill's use of `overlord' ministers on the Conservatives' return to power in October 1951. Whitehall...

The return of the left: the 1997 French Parliamentary election.
January 1, 1998... ON 21 APRIL 1997, the neo-Gaullist French President, Jacques Chirac, announced on radio and television the dissolution of the National Assembly and a general election was scheduled to take place on 25 May (first ballot) and 1 June (second...

Consensus and political competition in the Irish Republic: the 1997 election.
January 1, 1998... THE IRISH electorate went to the polls on 6 June 1997 to elect a new Dail (parliament). The outcome disappointed those who had hoped for a continuation of the pattern evident at the 1992 general election. The 1997 election consolidated trends...

The politics teacher: once resourceful, now well resourced. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... THE TEACHER'S ROLE, together with the nature of teaching, has changed considerably over recent decades. In particular, the teacher-scholar has been replaced in large part by the teacher-manager. Politics teaching provides a case in point....