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Where the New Left talked of destroying the oligarchic Establishment that ran Britain, it was to be the Right which actually did so, recasting British political language as much as it did British society. It was within the Tory Party – long mistyped as the ‘stupid party’ – that the most politically effective version of republicanism was developed.
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Foote, G. (2005). A Republicanism of the Right. In: The Republican Transformation of Modern British Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509962_6
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