1. Richard Hayton, ‘Conservative Party modernisation and David Cameron’s politics of the family’, Political Quarterly, Volume 81, No.4, (October-December 2010), p. 499
2. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection, (Harper Press, London, 2010), Introduction, p. viii
3. See also Richard Hayton, Conservatism? The Conservative Party in Opposition, 1997–2010. New Perspectives on the Right. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012)
4. This term was originally cited in Andrew Gamble, The Conservative Nation, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974)
5. W.H Greenleaf, The British Political Tradition Volume II: The Ideological Heritage, (Methuen, London, 1983), Ch. 1, pp. 7–8