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Legitimacy in the United Kingdom: Scotland and the Poll Tax

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The community charge has been described as the flagship of Thatcherism. It was also the issue which, together with Europe, brought the Prime Minister's voyage to an end and set her adrift as a political Captain Bligh whilst her parliamentary and cabinet crew sailed on without her. But though the prospect of English electoral disaster was the most immediate and obvious political effect of the new tax, its introduction a year earlier in Scotland had other and possibly longer-lasting consequences.

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  • Barker, Rodney, 1992. "Legitimacy in the United Kingdom: Scotland and the Poll Tax," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(4), pages 521-533, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:22:y:1992:i:04:p:521-533_00
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