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To some extent, the continued divisions in the Liberal leadership, the harangue over finance, and the more fundamental divisions over policy, might all have been disguised had the parliamentary party adopted a united, constructive and positive stance in Parliament. Sadly, it cut if anything a more abject figure than the leaders themselves. In the lobbies the party presented a picture of total confusion and inconsistency.
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© 1975 Chris Cook
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Cook, C. (1975). The Politics of Chaos: Liberals and Labour at Westminster. In: The Age of Alignment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02139-0_14
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