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Baldwin’s decision to call an immediate election over the issue of Protection transformed the position of the Liberal Party. At one stroke, the road to Liberal reunion lay open. Baldwin succeeded, where every Liberal had failed, in reuniting the two warring factions.
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Notes
A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook (1972) p. 219.
M. Cowling, The Impact of Labour (Cambridge, 1971) p. 346.
Much the best discussion of the main speeches of the Liberal leaders is to be found in R. Lyman, The First Labour Government (1957) pp. 42–52.
See Chris Cook, The Age of Alignment (1975) pp. 180–96.
Chris Cook, The Age of Alignment (1975) p. 252.
See Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds), By-Elections in British Politics (1973) pp. 44–71.
T. Wilson (ed.), The Political Dairies of C. P. Scott (1973) entry dated 27 Nov. 1924.
T. Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party (1966) p. 276.
For these pacts, see Chris Cook, The Age of Alignment (1975) p. 294.
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Cook, C. (1984). Revival and Decline: 1923–1926. In: A Short History of the Liberal Party 1900–1984. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17342-6_8
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