Richard Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary, University of London The earliest use of the term ‘elective dictatorship’ in a British political context was by the former Conservative Cabinet minister Quintin Hogg during the 1966 general election. ‘Of all the democracies’, Hogg warned, ‘Britain is nearest to an elective dictatorship’. It was a charge Hogg would repeat many times (whenever Labour was in office) over the next […]
