Liberal Decline

Question 1

RR James Liberal decline

Answer 1

Gladstone ‘was thus at one and the same time the Liberals’ greatest asset and their most grievous liability’.

Question 2

Wilson Liberal decline

Answer 2

the Liberal Party ‘was involved in an encounter with a rampant omnibus [WW1] which mounted the pavement and ran him over’.

Question 3

Dangerfield Liberal decline

Answer 3

decline could be traced to 1910-14 w/ crises over the Lords etc.

Question 4

Bernstein Liberal decline

Answer 4

hadn’t recovered in 1900s - ‘Neither the new Liberalism nor Liberal policies of social reform represented a fundamental re-orientation of the Liberal Party so that it could represent the interests of the working class’.

Question 5

Pugh Women’s suffrage

Answer 5

he majority of MPs had been converted to the idea of female suffrage by 1906, but the problem was finding time for legislation in a crowded parliamentary timetable and deciding which women to enfranchise.