SCOTLAND AND THE 1987 GENERAL ELECTION:: Regional variation or national identity?

Abstract

The most startling characteristics of the 1987 General Election were, by common consent, the scale of the Conservative victory nationally and the extraordinary contrast to this British picture provided by the results in Scotland. North of the border the Conservatives found themselves reduced to holding only 10 of the 72 Scottish seats. Scottish Office Ministers such as Michael Ancram and John MacKay were dumped by the electorate, leaving the Secretary of State, Malcolm Rifkind, with the immediate problem of finding enough live bodies to fulfil the administrative requirements associated with parliamentary business in Scotland (apart from the difficulty of also ensuring that his team had a minimum level of ability necessary to understand and undertake their duties!).

Citation

Dickson, A.D.R. (1989), "SCOTLAND AND THE 1987 GENERAL ELECTION:: Regional variation or national identity?", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013063