The Conservative Party and the Working Class Tories

Bace: The conservative party was the biggest party. Had five million members, i think, at one parer. Now i believe they've lost a hundred and 50 thousand members. They won't release proper membership figures. So what we saw was that that dn democratic efficiency w had these big mass parties and real mass participation in politics. That declines from the from the eighties, just as mass part ation in political parties and other associational activities as well. Laterin arguably, pretty we very chunki thet in significant i didn't realize that was, its ont ve been. There's always been a chunk of working class tories. I mean, my partner aly