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The ‘coupon’ election of December 1918 had given Lloyd George his triumph. Or so, at least, it appeared on the surface. What the results of 1918 disguised was the shallowness of both Lloyd George’s own personal position and that of his party. For his party (as is discussed on pp. 79–80) lacked real roots or any established power base.
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Notes
Κ. Ο. Morgan, ‘Lloyd George’s Stage Army’, in A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: Twelve Essays (1971) p. 247.
See M. Kinnear, The British Voter (1968) pp. 88–91.
Quoted in M. Kinnear, The Fall of Lloyd George: The Political Crisis of 1922 (1973).
See P. Thompson, Socialists, Liberals and Labour: The Struggle for London (1967).
Sec Chris Cook and John Ramsdcn, By-Elections in British Politics (1973).
M. Kinnear, The Fall of Lloyd George (1973) p. 201.
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Cook, C. (1984). A Party Divided: 1918–1923. In: A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900–1984. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17342-6_7
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