The Decline of the Scottish Conservative Party
Edinburgh alumni and resident Colin Sutherland anaylses the last 150 years of Scottish politicsThis is a fascinating, up-to-date, and well-researched explanation of Scottish politics covering the last 150 years. Sutherland concentrates on the decline of the Scottish Unionist Association following its takeover by the English Conservative Party in 1959-60.
“Some years ago an old friend from university remarked to me that when he first came to Scotland it was a Conservative country, and now it was not; and he asked me how this could have happened. I could not answer, and when I thought