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Was the Liberal party dying before World War I?
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Was the Liberal party dying before World War I? The issue of whether the Liberal party was dying before World War I has raised many debates among historians. The word 'dying' is referred not to temporary electoral losses but to permanent exclusion of the Liberal party as the main left wing political party in Britain. One early view, expressed by Pelling, is that there was an air of inevitability about Labour replacing the Liberals as the major political force opposing the Conservatives chiefly because its rise coincided with a general rise in the labour movement and the working class found voice to their views in Labour leaders like Arthur Henderson, Sidney Webb and Ramsay McDonald. A revised view was put forward in the 1930s mainly by Liberal historians like J A Spender and Ramsay Muir which suggested that it was the factions among the Liberals created by many issues like the...
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