These seminars are free to attend and no registration is required. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be available from 12.15pm for a 12.30pm start. BYO sandwich.
Abstract
The Conservative-Liberal Government that was formed in May 2010 is atypical in the post-war era. The Conservative Party is working in partnership with the Liberal Democrats on a shared, co-authored policy agreement (HM Government, 2010). The agreement’s fundamental goal is to clear the structural deficit and, in doing so, re-orientate the purpose and remit of the central state. The common ideological thread binding both party leaderships fuses economic liberalism with social liberalism. Cameron and Clegg share a diagnosis of Britain’s present political and financial ills and, in the main, agree on the requisite policy prescriptions. In this seminar, an analysis is provided that examines both the liberal Conservatism of the Cameronites and the Orange Book liberalism of Clegg’s Liberal Democrats.
Speaker Details
Dr Matt Beech is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull. His main research interests include ideology, public policy and foreign policy intervention. He has published extensively on New Labour, social democracy, the Conservative Party under David Cameron and the Conservative-Liberal Coalition.
Publications
Matt’s most recent book is the first study of the Conservative-Liberal Coalition. It is the fourth book produced by the Centre for British Politics and is co-edited with Simon Lee, The Cameron-Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). The others, also co-edited with Simon Lee, are The Brown Government: A Policy Evaluation (London: Routledge 2010), The Conservatives under David Cameron: Built to Last?(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and Ten Years of New Labour (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008). He co-authored with Kevin Hickson Labour's Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2007); wrote the monograph The Political Philosophy of New Labour (London and New York: I.B. Tauris 2006); and co-edited with Raymond Plant and Kevin Hickson The Struggle for Labour's Soul: Understanding Labour's Political Thought Since 1945 (London: Routledge 2004). His articles have been published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, West European Politics, The Political Quarterly and Policy Studies.
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