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The 1997 general election result made clear that the erosion of the Conservative party’s strength involved far more than a simple haemorrhage of electoral support. The Conservatives’ crushing parliamentary defeat could be traced to a series of interlocking developments which together created a new opportunity for a resurgent Labour Party and presented the Conservative leadership with a fresh agenda for the post-election period.
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Peele, G. (1997). Political Parties. In: Dunleavy, P., Gamble, A., Holiday, I., Peele, G. (eds) Developments in British Politics 5. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25862-8_5
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