Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain - eBook

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The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader. It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in leadership elections..

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It looks at how parties remove leaders, showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it harder to evict incumbents.