Noel Skelton and the Property-Owning Democracy

by David Torrance

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Born in July 1880, Noel Skelton was a Scottish Unionist politician, a lawyer, journalist and intellectual, whose death at the age of 55 deprived the Conservative Party of a reforming and progressive spirit. Skelton advocated a Constructive ConservatismA", in which he eschewed the party's more reactionary elements in favour of a progressive line on traditionally socialist issues. His thinking on property ownership, in particular, became the cornerstone of at first Macmillan's, then Eden's, and even Douglas-Home's policy making on housing in the post-war era. Skelton's principles can even be traced forward to Margaret Thatcher's governments of the 1980s and beyond.
  • ISBN13 9781849540117
  • Publish Date 24 May 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 August 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Biteback Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English