Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business PDF
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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats Cole_00_Prelims.indd 1 29/01/2011 12:08 Cole_00_Prelims.indd 2 29/01/2011 12:08 Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats Unfinished business matt cole Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan Cole_00_Prelims.indd 3 29/01/2011 12:08 Copyright © Matt Cole 2011 The right of Matt Cole to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for isbn 978-0-7190-8253-5 hardback First published 2011 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or a ppropriate. Typeset in Minion by Koinonia, Manchester Printed in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire Cole_00_Prelims.indd 4 29/01/2011 12:08 To Sue and Jess Cole_00_Prelims.indd 5 29/01/2011 12:08 Cole_00_Prelims.indd 6 29/01/2011 12:08 Contents List of figures page ix Foreword by Vince Cable, MP xi Acknowledgements xiii Chronology xiv Introduction 1 Part One: Before Parliament 1 Early life 5 2 Cambridge 16 3 Wainwright’s War 26 Part Two: Outside Parliament 4 Liberal Clubs 43 5 Wainwright’s faith 51 6 The press 61 7 The Party in the country 67 8 Colne Valley 80 9 Campaigning 96 Part Three: In Parliament 10 The Parliamentary Liberal Party 141 11 Wainwright and Jeremy Thorpe 156 12 The Lib-Lab Pact 177 13 The SDP/Liberal Alliance 185 Part Four: After Parliament 14 The merger and the Liberal Democrats 195 Conclusion 210 Appendices 219 Bibliography 222 Index 227 Cole_00_Prelims.indd 7 29/01/2011 12:08 Cole_00_Prelims.indd 8 29/01/2011 12:08 List of figures Figures are between p. 2 and p. 3 1 ‘A privileged education, isolated from most 1930s schoolchildren’: Wainwright (front row, third from the right) as a leaver from Streete Court preparatory school, where he studied from 1928-31 (courtesy of Mr Nigel Giles, Streete Court Club). 2 Wainwright (far left) on an outing with fellow boarders at Shrewsbury School in 1934 (with the permission of the London School of Economics Archives). 3 Wainwright as a fresher at Clare College, Cambridge in autumn 1936, when he joined the Liberal Party for the first time (courtesy of the Cambridge University Liberal Club). 4 Wainwright (to the right of the door in a light coat) on active service with the Friends Ambulance Unit in Einbeck, Germany, November 1945 (with the permis- sion of I. B. Tauris & Co.). 5 ‘She’s the one that gets me in, every election. She’s the one people like to see’: Wainwright’s tribute to his wife Joyce, seen here at their wedding in January 1948 (courtesy of Mrs Joyce Wainwright). 6 Wainwright at the Liberal Party’s nadir: this was Wainwright’s 1955 address to the electors of Pudsey as one of just 110 Liberal candidates at that year’s general elec- tion. (with the permission of the University of Bristol Special Collections). 7 Wainwright in conversation with Liberal Party Leader Clement Davies at the 1956 Liberal Assembly in Folkestone (with the permission of Halksworth Wheeler Ltd). 8 ‘He was thrilled, because it was what he had always wanted’: the description Joyce Wainwright (right) gave of the reaction of Henry Scurrah Wainwright (left) to his son’s election to Parliament in March 1966 when this photo was taken. 9 Wainwright (seated, left of Leader Jo Grimond at the centre) and his colleagues in the Liberal Parliamentary Party of 1966. Future Liberal Leaders David Steel and Jeremy Thorpe are on the far left and right respectively (with the permission of the University of Bristol Special Collections). 10. Wainwright in contemplation in his beloved garden at The Heath in 1973, not long after his tour of Guinea-Bissau (with the permission of the London School of Economics Archives). Cole_00_Prelims.indd 9 29/01/2011 12:08
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