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Liberal Party | |
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| Founder | John Russell |
| Founded | 9 June 1859 |
| Dissolved | 2 March 1988 |
| Merger of | Whigs Radicals Peelites Independent Irish Party |
| Succeeded by | Liberal Democrats (majority) Liberal Party (UK, 1989) (minority) |
| Youth wing | Young Liberals |
| Political orientation | Liberalism Imperialism |
The Liberal Party was one of the two major bourgeois political parties in the UK along with the Conservative Party until it was replaced in that role by Labour in the 1920s and relegated to the role of a third party in a two party system.
History[edit | edit source]
1916-1922 National Government[edit | edit source]
On 7 December 1916 David Lloyd George became Prime Minister following the collapse of H.H. Asquith's First World War coalition government. Lloyd George continued the coalition government with the Conservatives despite not being party leader and would remain Prime Minister until the collapse of the coalition in 1922, making him the last Liberal Party Prime Minister.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Chris Cook (2010). A Short History of the Liberal Party: The Road back to Power: 'Liberals at War: 1914–1918'. ISBN 978-0-230-21044-8