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Sentence Examples Davies died in 1962 and was succeeded by Emlyn Hooson, who then set about rebuilding the Welsh Liberal Party. At various times both the Labour Party and the Liberal Party took up the cause of Welsh home rule, or devolution. He was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party and took a keen interest in Irish affairs. Nationally, the 1906 general election produced a huge Liberal majority and an intake of 29 Labour members. Lord Russell retired in 1867 and Gladstone became leader of the Liberal Party. Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule convinced them to support the Liberal government using the 86 seats in Parliament they controlled. The general election of 1892 resulted in a minority Liberal government with Gladstone as Prime Minister. That view of the individual conscience affected his political outlook and changed him gradually from a Conservative into a Liberal. Furthermore, he drifted to the right of the Liberal party and became a bitter critic of its policies. His designs in foreign policy, such as expansion of the fleet, were defeated by disagreements within the Liberal Party. Rosebery remained the Liberal leader for another year, then permanently retired from politics. As part of the natural order of things, Hardie joined the Liberal Association, in which he was active. The constituency's Liberal Member of Parliament, Stephen Mason resigned from his seat. Liberal education and professional education have often been seen as divergent. The disappearance of liberal education can also be traced to Liberal Art Colleges. Thus, as a result, Liberal Art Colleges are diminishing along with the emphasis on providing a liberal education. Prior to this, Charles Kennedy, a Liberal Democrat, had represented the area since the 1983 general election. Following the 2012 local elections, the council administration was a coalition of Independents, Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats. Prior to the election a coalition of Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Independents ruled. The Conservatives were the biggest party on the council with 10 seats, the Liberal Democrats had six. Show More Sentences By contrast, the smaller Liberal Democrats party took more than a fifth of the vote but only about a tenth of the seats in parliament. Between 1999 and 2007, the Scottish Executive was formed by a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition. The Scottish Greens won six seats on the regional list and overtook the Liberal Democrats, who remained on five seats. In 1886, the Liberal Unionists had broken away from the Liberal Party in opposition to William Gladstone's proposals for Irish Home Rule. After these, Scottish Labour entered a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, forming a majority Scottish Executive. The Scottish Liberal Democrats hold 5 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 4 of 59 Scottish seats in the UK Parliament. On 13 October 2009, he was joined by fellow former Liberal Democrat Cllr Debra Storr. The motion was supported by the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, while the SNP abstained. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn supported the early election, as did Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron and the Green Party. Tim Farron became the Liberal Democrat leader in July 2015, following the resignation of Nick Clegg. Labour, Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, and Liberal Democrats contested all forty seats and there were 32 UKIP and 10 Green candidates. The Liberal Democrats had already selected 326 candidates in 2016 and over 70 in 2017 before the election was called. Labour ruled out an electoral pact with the SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens. Notwithstanding national arrangements, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and UKIP indicated they might not stand in every constituency. On 16 May the Liberal Democrats proposed an entrepreneurs' allowance, to review business rates and to increase access to credit. In England, Labour made a net gain of 21 seats, taking 25 constituencies from the Conservatives and two from the Liberal Democrats. They gained Clacton from UKIP and Southport from the Liberal Democrats in addition to the six gains from Labour. Labour gained six seats from the SNP while the Liberal Democrats gained three. Following that election, the Conservative Party formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. The seat was won at the 2016 Scottish Parliament Election by Willie Rennie, for the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Show More Sentences Throughout much of the 19th century, Wales was a bastion of the Liberal Party. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have the strongest support in rural mid and west Wales. As Prime Minister, Lloyd George favoured the Conservatives in his coalition in the 1918 elections, leaving the Liberal Party a minority. He became leader of the Liberal Party in the late 1920s, but it grew even smaller and more divided. William Gladstone's proposal to bring about Irish Home Rule split the party, with Chamberlain eventually leading the breakaway Liberal Unionists. Haldane and others were supporters of the war and formed the Liberal Imperial League. The Liberal manifesto at the 1906 general election included a commitment to reduce military expenditure. The two men gained the respect of Liberal cabinet colleagues for improving administrative capabilities, and increasing outputs. Asquith, the Liberal leader in the House, took up the allegations and attacked Lloyd George, which further ripped apart the Liberal Party. In late May, the executive of the National Liberal Federation convened to plan the agenda for the following month's conference. Liberal socialism is a socialist political philosophy that includes liberal principles within it. Liberal socialism has been particularly prominent in British and Italian politics. Shortly before the election, however, Henry Richard intervened as a radical Liberal candidate, invited by the radicals of Merthyr. Prior to the war, Philipps was elected a Member of parliament, and was part of Lloyd George's Liberal Party. The Liberal's landslide victory of 125 seats over all other parties led to the passing of social legislation known as the Liberal reforms. This division was in contrast to the Liberal Party's belief in free trade, which it argued would help keep costs of living down. The landslide Liberal victory led to many Conservative and Unionist MPs losing what had previously been regarded as safe seats. The Liberal candidate in Manchester East had been helped by a pact with the local Labour Party. The result was also regarded as a defeat for the Cymru Fydd element in the Welsh Liberal Party. This change was vital in order to gain the support of Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the event of a referendum. Show More Sentences The Welsh Conservative Party and the Welsh Liberal Democrats condemned the One Wales government for not attending Assembly business. Under Morgan's leadership, a coalition was formed with the Liberal Democrats that arguably brought a degree of stability to the administration. The other two state parties are the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the English Liberal Democrats. The Welsh Liberal Democrats promote liberalism as their main ideology, as well as further devolved powers for the National Assembly for Wales. In 1906 the Welsh Liberals reached their peak when 35 of Wales' 36 seats had MPs who took the Liberal whip. The General Election of 1906 also represented a shift to the left by the Liberal Party. Randerson's post made her the first female Liberal in the party's history to hold ministerial office. Baroness Randerson become the first ever Welsh female Liberal peer to sit in the House of Lords. On 8 December 2008, Williams became leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, having defeated Cardiff Central Assembly Member Jenny Randerson. The budget included several proposed tax increases to fund the Liberal welfare reforms. This saw the SNP replace the Liberal Democrats as the third largest in the UK Parliament. The Scottish Greens took 6 seat and overtook the Liberal Democrats who remained flat on 5 seats. He wrote a famous biography of the great Liberal publisher Thomas Gee, whose work influenced Jones throughout his life. Gruffydd had voiced doubts about Lewis's ideas since 1933, and by 1943 he had joined the Liberal Party. The ward is represented by two councillors, Kirsty Davies and Gareth Aubrey, both members of the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats have a branch in Northern Ireland but do not contest elections, but are affiliated with the Alliance Party. Liberal forces won, but the conflict between progressive and conservative liberals ended in a weak early constitutional period. The countryside is mostly solid Conservative territory, with a few areas being strong for the Liberal Democrats. Giving the following result, 40 Conservative councillors, 15 UKIP, 14 Labour, 10 Liberal Democrats, 4 Green Party and one independent. In the 2010 General Election seven were held by the Conservatives and two by the Liberal Democrats. Show More Sentences In the 2015 General Election seven of these seats were won by the Conservative Party, one each by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. In February 2009, the Labour group resigned and the Liberal Democrats took office with a minority administration. In the 4 June 2009 council elections the Liberal Democrats gained four seats and, for the first time, overall control of the city council. However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party. In June 2011 Liskeard North councillor Jan Powell defected from the Conservatives to join the Liberal Democrats. In May 2012 two Liberal Democrat councillors left the Liberal Democrat group to join the Independent Group. In September 2012 another Liberal Democrat councillor resigned from the party. A new coalition was formed, between the Independents and the Liberal Democrats. She later left the Liberal Democrats and designated herself as a standalone independent in December of that year. As a result, 45 Conservatives, 17 Liberal Democrats, 10 UKIP, four Labour and one Community Campaign councillor sit on the County Council. Portsmouth City Council, also a UA, has 25 Liberal Democrat, 12 Conservative and 5 Labour councillors. The militia was transformed into the Special Reserve by the military reforms of Haldane in the reforming post 1906 Liberal government. A carbon tax was introduced in 2012 and helped to reduce Australia's emissions but was scrapped in 2014 under the Liberal Government. This was the expected result given opposition by Labour and latterly, the Liberal Democrat party to the legislation. Electoral reform, towards a proportional model, was desired by the Liberal Democrat party, the Green party, and several other small parties. Prior to 1998, the Liberals and then Liberal Democrats had dominated the Council. At the 1997 election, Turner was the Conservative candidate on the Isle of Wight, coming second to Liberal Democrat MP Peter Brand. The constituency is traditionally a battleground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. However, there was only a small increase in the number of Conservative votes, while the Liberal Democrat vote fell significantly. There are 46 Conservative councillors, 10 UK Independence Party, 8 Liberal Democrats, 6 Labour Party councillors and 1 Independent councillor. Show More Sentences In 1891 the Liberal Party, led by John Ballance, came to power as the first organised political party. The Liberal Government, later led by Richard Seddon, passed many important social and economic measures. Leading political parties in Russia include United Russia, the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and A Just Russia. The Liberal Radical Party embodied these democratic forces calling for a new federal constitution. The Democratic Alliance is a Liberal Party and a full member of Liberal International. Liberal ideas of free trade played a role in German unification, which was preceded by a customs union, the Zollverein. The Liberal army becomes them under siege inside Oporto by the Miguelite army that concentrates around the city. Traditionally, politics in the province have been dominated by both the Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. During the 19th century, the Liberal movement introduced new changes into the urban landscape. The Dominion of Newfoundland reached its golden age under Prime Minister Sir Robert Bond of the Liberal Party. In 1919, the FPU joined with the Liberal Party of Newfoundland led by Richard Squires to form the Liberal Reform Party. In 1989, Clyde Wells and the Liberal Party returned to power ending 17 years of Conservative government. After the war, military officers used popular dissatisfaction with the Liberal politicians to seize the power for themselves. The two principal parties are the Progressive Liberal Party and the Free National Movement. The Liberal Party saw their percentage of the vote decrease dramatically, and their representation in the Parliament fell to seven seats. It does not know a Mosaic, prophetic, and rabbinic Judaism, nor Orthodox and Liberal Judaism. Other provincial Liberal Parties are unaffiliated with their federal counterpart. Liberal professors have claimed that there is conservative bias in law schools, particularly within law and economics and business law fields. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats remain the third largest political party in the House of Lords, with over 100 seats. The Liberal Democrats operate an assessment process for members wishing to join the party's list of potential candidates. Show More Sentences He sat as a Liberal allied to the Conservative and Liberal Unionist coalition government who had won the election. In 1886, he was adopted as Liberal candidate for East Fife, a seat he held for over thirty years. Asquith remained as leader of the Liberal Party, but was unable to quell the internal conflict. He sometimes debated against his Balliol contemporary Alfred Milner, who although then a Liberal was already an advocate of British imperialism. He liked less the austere side of the nonconformist Liberal tradition, with its strong temperance movement. Between 1876 and 1884 Asquith supplemented his income by writing regularly for The Spectator, which at that time had a broadly Liberal outlook. In June 1886, with the Liberal party split on the question of Irish Home Rule, Gladstone called a general election. The Conservatives did not contest the seat, putting their support behind Kinnear, who stood against Asquith as a Liberal Unionist. Asquith hoped to act as a mediator between members of his cabinet as they pushed Liberal legislation through Parliament. Yet by 1906, industrial dissension and political militancy had begun to undermine Liberal consensus in the southern coalfields. Labour MPs hold 25 of the 40 seats, the Conservatives eleven, Plaid Cymru three and the Liberal Democrats hold one seat. Elections in the constituency have traditionally been a battle between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. The Member of Parliament since 2001, Andrew Turner, is a Conservative, and while predecessor Dr Peter Brand was a Liberal Democrat. As of May 2015, 45 are from the Labour Party, 27 are Conservatives, and one is a Liberal Democrat. Labour displaced the Liberal Party for second place and achieved major success with the 1922 general election. By the late 1990s, there was talk of the necessity of uniting the right in Canada, to deter further Liberal majorities. The Liberal Democrats are a liberal political party, and third largest in England in terms of membership and MPs elected. His rival Gladstone, a Liberal distrusted by the Queen, served more terms and oversaw much of the overall legislative development of the era. In the late 19th century, the New Dissenters mostly switched to the Liberal Party. In election after election, Protestant ministers rallied their congregations to the Liberal ticket. Show More Sentences The Liberal government of the day led by Asquith responded with the Cat and Mouse Act. They turned to systematic disruption of Liberal Party meetings as well as physical violence in terms of damaging public buildings and arson. Searle says the methods of the suffragettes did succeed in damaging the Liberal party but failed to advance the cause of women's suffrage. He campaigned in line with the Liberal Government to install responsible rather than representative government. This made it difficult for him to campaign, and a further setback was the internal division which continued to beset the Liberal Party. Churchill and 11 others decided to use the label Constitutionalist rather than Liberal or Unionist. He was returned at Epping against a Liberal and with the support of the Unionists. In this the Government was supported by the Liberal Party and, officially at least, by the Conservative Party. Before the Labour Party rose in British politics, the Liberal Party was the other major political party along with the Conservatives. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats entered into a new coalition government, headed by David Cameron. The coalition partners campaigned on opposite sides, with the Liberal Democrats supporting AV and the Conservatives opposing it. After the First World War, this led to the demise of the Liberal Party as the main reformist force in British politics. Liberal Democrat plans were to reduce the number of MPs to 500, and for them to be elected using a proportional system. The Liberal Democrats said that they would talk first to whichever party won the most seats. Labour took a lead in the polls in the second half of 2010, driven in part by a collapse in Liberal Democrat support. In the 1920s, the Liberal vote greatly diminished and the Labour Party became the Conservatives' main rivals. They campaigned alongside Labour and the Liberal Democrats against full Scottish Independence in the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The 2010 general election led to Cameron becoming Prime Minister as the head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats controlled 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats. One of the first acts of the new Liberal Government was to reverse the Taff Vale judgement. Show More Sentences The height of Liberal compromise was to introduce a wage for Members of Parliament to remove the need to involve the Trade Unions. It was the collapse of the Liberal party that led to the Conservative landslide. However MacDonald was still reliant on Liberal support to form a minority government. The new Liberal Democrats seemed to pose a major threat to the Labour base. The name was subsequently changed to Liberal Democrats in October 1989, which is frequently shortened to Lib Dems. The party is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and Liberal International. The election was, however, something of a turning point for the Liberal Democrats. Three quarters of the Liberal Democrat's manifesto pledges went into the Programme for Government. In council elections held on 5 May 2011, the Liberal Democrats suffered heavy defeats in the Midlands, North and Scotland. Membership of the Liberal Democrats rose from 45,000 to 61,000 as the party prepared to hold its 2015 party leadership ballot. The Liberal Democrats supported the adoption of the Euro and greater European integration. The Liberal Democrats have been strongly in favour of European integration. In council elections held in May 2011, the Liberal Democrats suffered heavy defeats in the Midlands, North and Scotland. The Liberal Democrats are a federal party of the parties of England, Scotland and Wales. There is a separate local party operating in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Liberal Democrats. In January 2012 Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, supported calls for a devolved English parliament. Before that date, however, the Liberal Government of William Ewart Gladstone fell. Labour have almost twice as many seats than the Conservatives with 33 Labour, 17 Conservative and 2 Liberal Democrat. The Conservatives gained 15 seats almost all of which were from the Liberal Democrats. The current composition of Folkestone Town Council is 14 Conservatives, two People First and two Liberal Democrats. Show More Sentences The Labour Party gained 11 seats during the election, taking their total to 62 seats, compared with the 22 held by the Liberal Democrats. Of the remaining seats the Liberal Party won three and the Green Party claimed two. In 2011, the seats were held by four Liberal Democrat and five Conservative councillors. This was originally a 1997 Labour manifesto commitment and was also the policy of the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties. The handing over of monetary policy to the Bank had been a key plank of the Liberal Democrats' economic policy since the 1992 general election. Dawkins has described himself as a Labour voter in the 1970s and voter for the Liberal Democrats since the party's creation. In the run up to the 2017 General Election, Dawkins once again endorsed the Liberal Democrats and urged voters to join the party. Before the 2010 boundary changes Cornwall had five constituencies all of which were won by Liberal Democrats in the 2005 general election. The Liberal Democrats recognise Cornwall's claims for greater autonomy, as do the Liberal Party. However the Methodists changed and in the 1880s moved into the Liberal Party, drawn in large part by Gladstone's intense moralism. Liberal Friends highlight the importance of good works, particularly living a life that upholds the virtues preached by Jesus. Like Conservative Friends, Liberal Friends reject religious symbolism and sacraments, such as water baptism and the Eucharist. Many meetings where Liberal Friends predominate abolished this religious practice. There are a number of public liberal arts colleges, including the members of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. The Liberal historian Lord Acton considered Burke one of the three greatest Liberals, along with William Gladstone and Thomas Babington Macaulay. There Percy Shelley discussed with Byron and Leigh Hunt the launch of a radical magazine called The Liberal. He was returning from having set up The Liberal with the newly arrived Leigh Hunt. From 1906 to 1910 he was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Salford South. A member of the Liberal Party, he was also the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage. The town has substantial Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and UKIP presences. Show More Sentences Hamilton received public criticism from UK MPs including Liberal Democrat MP Bob Russell for avoiding UK taxes. The group became steadily more influential among the public and as a pressure group within the then governing Liberal Party. Amendments to the proposed standing orders put forward by both Labour and The Liberal Democrats were defeated. The Conservatives lost 3 seats, moving from 14 seats to 11, while the Liberal Democrats dropped from 5 seats to just one. The original movement broadened its political appeal and soon began to receive Liberal Party backing. Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Liberal Democrats opposed a referendum offering independence as an option. The Conservative Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, who all have seats in the Scottish Parliament, oppose Scottish independence. The move was supported by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Greens. They replaced the Liberal Democrats as the third largest party in the House of Commons. The Liberal Democrats held the largest number of seats and Cllr Rodney Berman was Leader of the Council. The Crofters as a political movement faded away by 1892, and the Liberal Party gained their votes. The Liberal Party was a liberal political party which was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom in the 19th and early 20th century. It was formed by party members opposed to the merger who saw the Lib Dems diluting Liberal ideals. The formal foundation of the Liberal Party is traditionally traced to 1859 and the formation of Palmerston's second government. The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury. High Society in London, following the Queen, largely ostracized home rulers, and Liberal clubs were badly split. The Liberal Party might have survived a short war, but the totality of the Great War called for measures that the Party had long rejected. The result was the permanent destruction of ability of the Liberal Party to lead a government. Asquith and his followers moved to the opposition benches in Parliament and the Liberal Party was deeply split once again. Finally the presence of the vigorous new Labour Party on the left gave a new home to voters disenchanted with the Liberal performance. Show More Sentences The one significant reunification came in 1946 when the Liberal and Liberal National party organisations in London merged. Over the next ten years there would be further defections as MPs deserted to either the Liberal Nationals or Labour. During this low period, it was often joked that Liberal MPs could hold meetings in the back of one taxi. Jo Grimond, for example, who became Liberal leader in 1956, was MP for the remote Orkney and Shetland islands. In September 1966 the Welsh Liberal Party formed their own state party, moving the Liberal Party into a fully federal structure. It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty. Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state. In 1975, the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau introduced mandatory price and wage controls. Although appointed by a Liberal government, his policies were much the same as Viceroys appointed by Conservative governnents. Gladstone began using the Liberal majority in the House of Commons to push through resolutions and legislation. With Gladstone's Liberal majority dominant in the Commons, Disraeli could do little but protest as the government advanced legislation. Disraeli devoted much of his campaign to decrying the Liberal programme of the past five years. In December 1878, he was offered the Liberal nomination at the next election for Edinburghshire, a constituency popularly known as Midlothian. The small Scottish electorate was dominated by two noblemen, the Conservative Duke of Buccleuch and the Liberal Earl of Rosebery. Home Rule was favoured by William Ewart Gladstone, but opposed by many in the British Liberal and Conservative parties. The IPP came to dominate Irish politics, to the exclusion of the previous Liberal, Conservative, and Unionist parties that had existed there. In May 1929, a minority Labour government headed by Ramsay MacDonald came to office with Liberal support. The Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and then the Labour Party all adopted the Beveridge Report's recommendations. Lady Violet Bonham Carter, an influential Liberal Party member, wrote in a letter to the Times that. It was a coalition government, composed of members of both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. Show More Sentences In the first two terms of the Scottish Parliament, the executive was formed by a coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrats. With the passing of the Crofters' Act in 1886 the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone emancipated crofters from the rule of the landlords. From May 2003 until May 2007 the council was run by a Liberal Democrat and Conservatives coalition. Following the May 2007 elections the Liberal Democrats formed a new coalition with the Scottish National Party. In August 2009 a councillor resigned from the Liberal Democrats and became an independent. From August 2008, the council had been ruled by a coalition of the Independent Group and Liberal Democrat and Labour parties. At Asquith's request, King George V then threatened to create a sufficient number of new Liberal Peers to ensure the bill's passage. Rather than accept a permanent Liberal majority, the Conservative Lords yielded, and the bill became law. In return, the Labour Party agreed to modest policy concessions for the Liberal party. Asquith, asked King Edward VII to create sufficient new Liberal peers to pass the Bill if the Lords rejected it. The Conservatives returned in power with the Liberal Democrats as a coalition government following a hung parliament. Furthermore, Cameron set up a website designed to appeal to Liberal Democrat members and making heavy use of traditionally liberal rhetoric. When the Liberals lost the 1895 general election, a political crisis shook the Liberal Party. The 1924 general election signed the end of the Liberal Party as government force. In the 1992 general election the party added a fourth MP, Cynog Dafis, when he gained Ceredigion and Pembroke North from the Liberal Democrats. The IUA was an alliance of Irish Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, the latter having split from the Liberal Party over the issue of home rule. The SNP took a further eight seats from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from the Conservatives. The current government is formed by Welsh Labour and also the sole Liberal Democrats Assembly Member, Kirsty Williams. The Welsh Liberal Democrats lost significantly in the popular vote and returned five AMs, a loss of one. Among his appointments was former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams, who became Wales's Education Secretary. Show More Sentences Home Rule Bills introduced by Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone failed of passage, and split the Liberals. Although Asquith was the Party leader, the dominant Liberal was Lloyd George. The Liberal statement does draw attention to its potential future agenda, namely, fisheries, forestry, agri-food, and mining, all resource-based sectors. Rosebery resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on 6 October 1896, to be succeeded by Harcourt and gradually moved further and further from the mainstream of the party. He formally resigned as Liberal leader and was succeeded by the Marquess of Hartington, but he soon changed his mind and returned to active politics. The remaining seat is held by Kirsty Williams of the Liberal Democrats. Gladstone personally supported Home Rule, but a strong Liberal Unionist faction led by Joseph Chamberlain, along with the last of the Whigs, Hartington, opposed it. In October 1895, Lord Rosebery opened the new Liberal Club on Westborough, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, only months after being Prime Minister. Using the result as a mandate, the Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, introduced the Parliament Bill, which sought to restrict the powers of the House of Lords. In August 2012 the House of Lords Reform Bill 2012 was dropped by the Government, after disagreements between members of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. High prestige London clubs that had a Liberal base were deeply split. In 1868, Bright entered the cabinet of Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone as President of the Board of Trade, but resigned in 1870 due to ill health. Many who sought the election of working men and their advocates to the Parliament of the United Kingdom saw the Liberal Party as the main vehicle for achieving this aim. It is descended from the Liberal Party, a major ruling party of 19th century Britain through to the First World War, when it was supplanted by the Labour Party. Within two years of its foundation in 1884, the gradualist Fabian Society officially committed itself to a policy of permeation of the Liberal Party. The CWC led the campaign against the Liberal government of David Lloyd George and their Munitions Act, which forbade engineers from leaving the company they were employed in. When the Liberal party in Britain came to power in 1906, he was removed. However, they remained sitting on the government benches supporting it in Parliament, though in the country local Liberal activists bitterly opposed the government. Balfour had hoped that under a Liberal government splits would reemerge, which would therefore help the Conservative Party achieve victory at the next election. He exhorted his countrymen to put the Union above the Liberal Party. Show More Sentences Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. Between 1974 and 1987, the seat was a Liberal seat, then becoming Conservative until 1997 when the Liberal Democrats won on a reduced Conservative vote. The election was expected to be a close race between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, but the high Conservative vote even surprised the successful candidate. If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party. Bruce was a prominent Liberal although associated with the less radical wing of the Liberal Party and was criticised for his role in events such as the 1857 Aberdare Strike. Morgan's return, in particular, was significant, in view of the fact that he defeated Foulkes Griffiths, the official candidate of the Liberal Association. The Liberal government was unable to proceed with all of its radical programme without the support of the House of Lords, which was largely Conservative. Relations between Thomas and Morgan were not good, leading ultimately to a Liberal split which contributed to the success of James Keir Hardie at the 1900 General Election. He also forged a bitter rivalry with Gladstone of the Liberal Party. This resulted in the merger between the Conservatives and Joseph Chamberlain's Liberal Unionist Party, composed of former Liberals who opposed Irish home rule. As a result of elections held in 2017, Wiltshire Council comprises 68 Conservatives, 20 Liberal Democrats, seven Independents and three Labour members. After performing poorly in the general elections of 1922, 1923 and 1924, the Liberal Party was superseded by the Labour Party as the party of the left. The SDP formed an alliance with the Liberal Party which contested the 1983 and 1987 general elections as a centrist alternative to Labour and the Conservatives. Before the previous general election the Liberal Democrats had pledged to change the voting system, and the Labour Party pledged to have a referendum about any such change. The Scottish National Party, the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Conservative Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats fielded candidates in all 73 constituencies. The Northern Ireland Conservatives and UKIP fielded candidates, whereas Labour and the Liberal Democrats do not contest elections in Northern Ireland. The official Yes campaign, Yes for Wales, was supported by Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru, though they also ran their own individual campaigns. While some smaller parties opposed austerity, the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP all supported some further cuts, albeit to different extents. Joint Liberal Unionist and Conservative candidates were run across the United Kingdom, but with the organisations of these parties remaining separate. Jubilant Liberal supporters raised the roof of a Mississauga restaurant after incumbent Albina Guarnieri was swept back into office for her seventh term. Find more words! 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