Account for the overwhelming Liberal Landslide in the 1906 General Election.
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Account for the overwhelming Liberal Landslide in the 1906 General Election. The Liberal Landslide of 1906 was one of the most overwhelming victories in politics of the Edwardian era, by the 1890's the Liberal Party seemed defeated and in disarray, a party incapable of forming government ever again. However, from the smouldering issue of Home Rule, which seemed to have burnt out the Liberals, like a great phoenix the liberal party rose once more to unite a nation and lead Great Britain in the final fling the British public were ever to have with the Liberals. The overwhelming landslide can be attributed to a number of factors, the desire for fresh ideas from the public, the policy of tariff reform pushed by the Tories, Balfour's ineffectual leadership, the Boer War and the re-unification of the Liberals, however, one factor above all others accounts for the landslide, and that is the electoral...

