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Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES -- PART I: FRAMEWORKS FOR ASSESSING LEADERS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: LIBERAL LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP -- CHAPTER 2: TOWARDS POWER: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING LIBERAL LEADERS? -- CHAPTER 3: MEASURING THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF LIBERAL LEADERS: THE GENERAL ELECTION TEST -- PART II: ASSESSMENTS OF LIBERAL LEADERS -- CHAPTER 4: CHARLES (EARL) GREY -- CHAPTER 5: LORD JOHN (EARL) RUSSELL -- CHAPTER 6: LORD MELBOURNE -- CHAPTER 7: LORD PALMERSTON -- CHAPTER 8: WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE -- CHAPTER 9: EARL GRANVILLE AND LORD HARTINGTON -- CHAPTER 10: LORD ROSEBERY -- CHAPTER 11: SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT -- CHAPTER 12: SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN -- CHAPTER 13: HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH -- CHAPTER 14: DAVID LLOYD GEORGE -- CHAPTER 15: SIR HERBERT SAMUEL -- CHAPTER 16: SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR -- CHAPTER 17: CLEMENT DAVIES -- CHAPTER 18: JO GRIMOND -- CHAPTER 19: JEREMY THORPE -- CHAPTER 20: DAVID STEEL -- CHAPTER 21: ROY JENKINS -- CHAPTER 22: DAVID OWEN -- CHAPTER 23: ROBERT MACLENNAN -- CHAPTER 24: PADDY ASHDOWN -- CHAPTER 25: CHARLES KENNEDY -- CHAPTER 26: SIR MENZIES CAMPBELL -- CHAPTER 27: NICK CLEGG -- PART III: LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVES -- CHAPTER 28: DAVID STEEL ON POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE LIBERAL PARTY -- CHAPTER 29: PADDY ASHDOWN ON POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- CHAPTER 30: NICK CLEGG ON POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX -- Copyright -- Advertisement

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect.This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Origins -- 2 Exhausting the Volcanoes -- 3 In the Wilderness -- 4 Events Take Charge -- 5 Schism -- 6 Reconstruction -- 7 End of an Era -- 8 Collapse and Recovery -- 9 Triumph and After -- 10 Climax -- 11 When Troubles Come -- 12 Catastrophe -- 13 The Era of Lloyd George -- 14 Politics in Chaos -- 15 Recovery and Collapse -- 16 Salvage -- 17 Nadir -- 18 Uncertain Future -- 19 Alliance and Fusion -- 20 Into the New Millennium -- 21 Reflections -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

In this study of the changes in the social and political thought of the Edwardian Liberal Party, Dr Emy charts the process of internal conversion by which the Party came to favour an advanced social policy. He links these changes with important developments in the internal composition of the Party, in particular the emergence of a new group of social radicals, and claims that these two factors were responsible for the Liberals' commitment to advanced measures of social reform. The author also maintains that the entry of the social radicals into Parliament marks the origins of a significant debate in modern British politics - the economic problem. He argues that the central issue of the problem - the degree to which social and moral priorities are both entitled to and are able to displace the primacy of deterministic economic assumptions about how society must work - was the critical issue of post-1906 politics, and also came to form the touchstone of modern party allegiances

This study is an exercise in the history of political perception and opinion. It broke new ground in considering the decline of Liberalism through the eyes of Liberals themselves. By concentrating on what Liberal politicians said to one another and to their audience (public and private) a picture is built up of the frame of mind in which those responsible for guiding Liberalism faced a worsening world after 1914. The coming of the First World War was a critical element in forming that frame of mind; and the frame of mind was itself critical in deciding the fate of Liberalism in the post-war years. What emerges from this study is the paradox that the Liberal mind was the greatest single obstacle in the way of a Liberal revival

The passage of the twentieth century, and the formation of the Coalition Government in Britain in 2010, enables a reassessment of the Liberal Party's history and fortunes. The second edition of this established survey has been revised and updated throughout and now features a new chapter on the road back to government.

The war and the peace, by the Rt. Hon. H. Samuel: Liberalism and a league of nations, by the Rt. Hon. Sir W.H. Dickinson: Discharged sailors' and soldiers' rights, by J.M. Hogge: The liberties of the people, by the Rt. Hon. T.M. Wood: National finance, by the Rt. Hon. L. Jones: Free trade, by the Rt. Hon. J.M. Robertson: Ireland, by the Most Hon. the Marquess of Crewe: Constitutional reforms, by the Rt. Hon. H. Samuel: Women's questions, by Mrs. Runciman: Conditions of industry, by B.S. Rowntree: Housing and health, by P. Alden: The land and agriculture, by the Rt. Hon. F.D. Acland: Temperance reform, by C. Roberts: Education, by Lord Sheffield: Liberal preparedness for war, by the Rt. Hon. H. Baker: Scottish topics, by Sir E. Parrott. ; Mode of access: Internet.