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A Delicate Balance: the history of Liberals and hung Parliaments

The Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at Bournemouth Conference, supported by The Guardian, looked at hung Parliaments. In his introduction, the meeting chair Duncan Brack explained that one reason for picking the topic is that work such as that by John Curtice has shown that the odds of the next general election producing a hung [...]

The 1906 election

In 2006 I gave a talk at a dinner to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1906 Liberal landslide election victory. These are the notes I spoke from. Imagine you are Prime Minster, with a majority of 130 (and in practice a majority of more like 350 on most issues given how small the main [...]