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Why Was Salisbury Able to Dominate Politics Between 1886-1902?
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Why Was Salisbury Able to Dominate Politics Between 1886-1902? Historians' opinions, at first sight, provide no answer to this question. Salisbury is neglected and practically ignored by the later Conservative Party; Blake's 'History of the Conservative Party' devotes just four pages to the sixteen years of Lord Salisbury's ministries. He tends to be seen as an arch-traditionalist who made far too limited reforms. Further, he is seen as a hypocrite, overly distracted by foreign policy and ruthless in his policy towards Ireland. From this evidence there is no reason as to why Salisbury should ever have been in power. However, historians of the Liberal Party make it far more understandable as to why Salisbury should have dominated politics between 1886-1902. Much effort of historians studying the Liberal Party has been devoted to explaining general Liberal disunity; divisions over Home Rule and Ireland; the division and defection of Chamberlain and the Liberal Unionists...
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