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Peel betrayed his party and was an unsuccessful leader'? To what extent do you agree?
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Peel betrayed his party and was an unsuccessful leader'? To what extent do you agree? The career of Peel, according to his critics, is riddled with betrayal and treachery. On numerous occasions during this period he sacrificed the interest of his party in pursuit of what he defined as 'national interest'. These historians claim that the process started in 1829 when Peel was Home Secretary and proposed the successful Catholic emancipation Bill against the wishes of the majority of the party. This then continued when he famously remodeled the party with his Tamworth Manifesto where he was aiming to widen the base of his own parties support. While in office between 1841 - 46 Peels 'arrogance' (as Murphy puts it) led to betrayal to a number of key party principles. Firstly, in the 1842 Budget he reintroduced income tax at 7p, a direct betrayal of the 1816 measure put in place by...
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