Tory Pride and Prejudice

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.

Auteur

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.