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What were the motives behind the passing of the 1867 Reform Act?
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... What were the motives behind the passing of the 1867 Reform Act? The passing of the second reform act was more the result of two men's personal hatred the will of the People. Indeed, the public's deep disinterest issue allowed for party feuds, betrayals and rash plans to flourish at Westminster, as middle-class Radicals campaigned loudly outside. William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli had declared war on each other years earlier, but the passing of the second reform act was to be heir greatest clash yet and in the heat of the battle all sense of proportion and reason was lost, giving the Radicals what they had been wanting for years and which the nation had forgotten about for half a generation. As such, the act was also slightly to do with widespread demand by the working class. One explanation of the odd sequence of events has stressed the renewed pressure
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