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Liberal nationalism and the decline of the British Liberal Party: three case studies.
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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This article seeks to consider the impact of the Liberal National breakaway on the fortunes of the mainstream Liberal Party after 1931. It does so by looking at three case studies the very different constituencies of Walsall in the West Midlands, Eddisbury in Cheshire, and Bradford South in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In each, events followed a subtly different course, but the long-term consequences were very similar. It is suggested that the impact upon Liberalism amounted to far more than the defection of a sitting MP The party suffered the effective loss of its organizational infrastructure, while an existing pattern of voter allegiance was disrupted with lasting implications for its ...
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