A Short History of the Liberal Party
The Road Back to Power
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Apple rootstock genotypes confer different levels of tolerance to apple replant disease (ARD) and vigour to a newly replanted apple tree. A hybrid management system of rotating the rootstock genotype planted b...
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Toward Real-Time Multi-criteria Decision Making for Bus Service Reliability Optimization
This paper addresses issues associated with the real-time control of public transit operations to minimize passenger wait time: namely vehicle headway, maintenance of passenger comfort, and reducing the impact...
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Learning Diagnostic Diagrams in Transport-Based Data-Collection Systems
Insights about service improvement in a transit network can be gained by studying transit service reliability. In this paper, a general procedure for constructing a transit service reliability diagnostic (Tsrd) d...
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Stability Enhancement of Drug Layered Pellets in a Fixed Dose Combination Tablet
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Liberalism in Eclipse
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 pe...
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A Party in the Wilderness: 1945–1956
In the general election of 1945, the Parliamentary Liberal Party had come near to extinction. In the years that followed, the party came very close to disappearing altogether. In the municipal elections, the s...
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The Liberal Ascendancy: 1906–1910
With the triumph of the election behind him, Campbell-Bannerman found himself in a position of strength unequalled by any Liberal leader in recent history. He was head of the largest anti-Conservative majority...
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Liberals at War: 1914–1918
The coming of war in August 1914 transformed the political climate in the country. Indeed, the decision to go to war produced severe strains in the Liberal Cabinet. On 2 August the Cabinet decided that any sub...
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A Tale of Two Leaders: 1983–1987
In the wake of the 1983 election, a swift change occurred in the leadership of the SDP wing of the Alliance. Roy Jenkins, the elder statesman and founding father of the Social Democrats, resigned as leader. Gi...
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A New Agenda: 1988–1992
From the formation of the new party in March 1988 until the election of Paddy Ashdown in July, the Democrats made a somewhat faltering start. Although Steel and Maclennan were joint interim leaders, once Steel...
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Consenting Adults: The Liberal—Conservative Coalition
The outcome of the May 2010 election left no party with an overall majority in the Commons. During the campaign, Clegg had repeatedly emphasised that the party with the most seats and most votes after the elec...
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Dissension and Decline: 1931–1945
The outcome of the 1931 general election was a disaster for the party. The reconstruction of the Cabinet which followed the election reflected the greatly diminished importance of the Liberals in the new Parli...
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The Liberals in Opposition: 1900–1906
Campbell-Bannerman became leader of the Liberal Party in the Commons in February 1899. He was hardly the most obvious candidate to be leader of a party — indeed, in 1895 he had nearly become Speaker of the Hou...
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The Sound of Gunfire: 1956–1967
Clement Davies was succeeded as leader of the party by Jo Grimond. The day before the announcement of Clement Davies’ retirement, Grimond had addressed the assembly with a powerful speech which left little dou...
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The Crisis of Liberalism: 1910–1914
The election of January 1910 had returned Asquith to power. In this sense, it was a Liberal victory. But Asquith had won a battle, not a war. In the four years after 1910, the Liberals were to endure crisis af...
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Pacts and Alliances: 1976–1983
The election of David Steel in July 1976 brought to an end the unhappy final saga of the Thorpe era. But it did not change the fundamental problems facing the party, in particular its strategy to avoid being r...
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A Party Divided: 1918–1923
The ‘coupon’ election of December 1918 had given Lloyd George his triumph. Or so, at least, it appeared on the surface. What the results of 1918 disguised was the shallowness of both Lloyd George’s own persona...
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Merger Most Foul: 1987–1988
The electoral disappointments of June 1987 were rapidly followed by moves initiated by David Steel on behalf of the Liberals to secure an early and full Liberal—SDP merger. His call, almost before the dust of ...
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Lloyd George Again: 1926–1931
As with most other events, the advent of the General Strike exposed a further series of divisions in the Liberal ranks. Although there was much sympathy with the miners among many Liberals, the party recognise...
