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The resignation of Gladstone and the subsequent minority Salisbury Government (a caretaker administration until December 1885, when an election could be held on the revised electoral register) inaugurated a period of intense political turmoil culminating in the defeat of Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill in 1886. There ensued a period of two decades in which the Liberal Party was firmly eclipsed by the Conservatives.
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Notes
D.A. Hamer, John Morley: Liberal Intellectual in Politics (Oxford, 1968), p. 198.
Hopes of a reconciliation in the party collapsed with the failure of the 1887 Round Table Conference. For this episode, see M. Hurst, Joseph Chamberlain and Liberal Reunion: The Round Table Conference of 1887 (Newton Abbot, 1967).
See P. Stansky, Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s (Oxford, 1964).
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Cook, C. (2010). Liberalism in Eclipse. In: A Short History of the Liberal Party. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137056078_2
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