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Article: The unbreakable mould? British third-party politics since 1924.
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 1, 2005
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IT is necessary to understand the role of a third force in British politics over the last century in order to see why the Liberal Democrats may be poised for a significant electoral breakthrough in the next general election which most observers expect to be held in May. The decline of the Liberal Party in the early twentieth century took place at breakneck speed. The party moved from a landslide majority with 400 seats in 1906 to a rump of 40 MPs just eighteen years later. The collapse has been explained in a number of ways. Some talk of the impact of the First World War, others highlight the destructive rivalry between Lloyd George and Asquith or political errors made by ...
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