Noted elsewhere: Parties and People: England (1914-51).

By VERNON BOGDANOR [New Statesman] – A hundred years ago, we seemed about to witness the strange death, not of Liberal England, as George Dangerfield suggested in his book, but of Conservative England. The hold of the Liberals on government, buttressed as it was by the Irish nationalists and the infant Labour Party, seemed unshakeable. It was not easy to see how the Conservatives could ever displace them. After the 1914-18 war, however, everything changed. The Conservative century began. In every election between the wars, the Conservatives secured more votes than the Liberals or Labour. Indeed, until the advent of Tony Blair in 1997, there were just two governments of the left with comfortable majorities – in 1945 and 1966. From a review of Parties and People: England 1914-1951 by Ross McKibbon. (Continued at New Statesman | More Chronicle & Notices.)

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