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The Palestine crisis, Britain’s relations with Egypt and the Abadan crisis provided the formative experiences for the Suez Group. While the Conservative party was in opposition, thiswas an inchoate group — indeed between 1948 and 1950, many of those who later became stalwart members of the Suez Group were not MPs — but their views coalesced with each successive crisis in the Middle East, and their determination to influence their party and the government increased accordingly.
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© 1997 Sue Onslow
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Onslow, S. (1997). The Conservative Party and the Middle East: 1948–51. In: Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948–57. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378940_7
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