Analyses of leadership speeches by David Owen, David Steel, Neil Kinnock and Margaret Thatcher. The author examines how the leader's conference speech reveals both the constraints upon and the possibilities for the national presentation of personalized political leadership in Britain.

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Aston University, UK

John Gaffney

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Book Title: The Language of Political Leadership in Contemporary Britain
Authors: John Gaffney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11844-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-11846-5Published: 01 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11844-1Published: 18 June 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 257
Topics: Political Science

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

David Owen and Social Democracy

David Steel and Liberalism

Neil Kinnock and Democratic Socialism

Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Tradition

Conclusion

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