Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010 Victoria Tischler

Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910–2010 Victoria TischlerThis book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 around one sixth of all those elected as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and

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