![]() ![]() The three main issues are of Irish Home Rule, Women’s Suffrage, and Industrial Relations. ![]() Ultimately this behaviour resulted in the Parliament Act, but it’s a situation that is still not fully resolved today. (Not that increasing the Lib Dems’ seats by 50% wasn’t a good result – but it’s still a fraction of the number in the 2010-2015 parliament).ĭangerfield identifies a prologue, and three main threads, in the politics of the period 1906-1914: firstly, he deals with the House of Lords, and its ubiquitous role in blocking Liberal policies from the House of Commons. ![]() This had been on my to-read list for quite a while and the inconclusive aftermath of the 2017 General Election seemed as good a time as any to pick it up, especially since there had been no rebirth of “Liberal England”. Book Review: The Strange Death of Liberal England, by George Dangerfield ![]()
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