THE Reform Movement of 1830 resulted in ten years of Whig government, ...
THE Reform Movement of 1830 resulted in ten years of Whig government, and a sharp Conservative reaction.
The Reform of 1867 gave the Liberals six years of office and the Tories another six.
The last extension of the suffrage in 1885 eclipsed them for six months and then put them in power for seventeen years. Disraeli's forecast that the enlarged electorate would be preponderantly Conservative was justified, but by accident perhaps as much as by any inner necessity.
The election of 1868 was fought, partly on a general, abstract Liberalism, and partly on the personality of Gladstone: and 1874 was far more a defeat for the Liberals than a victory for Conservatism.
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The country wanted not a programme but peace. The results of 1880 ...
The country wanted not a programme but peace.
The results of 1880 were equally astonishing to both parties, neither of who had expected or feared much more than a sli
But in 1886 the borough for electoral purposes was still the borough ...
But in 1886 the borough for electoral purposes was still the borough for municipal purposes: burgesses and voters could be organized on parallel lines, and rewarded
Hitherto, the historical parties had not been unevenly represented at all levels ...
Hitherto, the historical parties had not been unevenly represented at all levels of society, and of the two, the Whig houses were more conspicuous than the Tory. But as they crossed