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The One Nation Group and One Nation Conservatism, 1950–2002

The One Nation Group is principally noted for its contribution to the revival of the Conservative Party in the postwar years, and for an original membership that included, among others, Iain Macleod, Edward Heath and Enoch Powell. The group's debut pamphlet, One Nation (1950) is one of the most celebrated Conservative postwar documents, and the orthodox view is of a group of backbenchers that enjoyed considerable behind-the-scenes influence until the mid- 1970s. This article examines the group's contribution to developing notions of One Nation Conservatism, and challenges many of the assumptions about the group over its first half-century existence, particularly in terms of the nature of its Conservatism and the influence it has held within the parliamentary party. In fact, even in its supposed glory days the group struggled to live up to its reputation. The pursuit of a corporate agenda was never easy to engineer; in part, this was a consequence of the variety of Conservative opinion within its ranks, belying simplistic notions of the group as historically and uniformly the embodiment of a paternalistic, left-wing Toryism supplanted by, and at odds with, Thatcherism. It is argued that to perceive the One Nation Group in this latter way is a misreading of its nature, composition and thinking.