The Liberal Revival

Radical leadership

• Gladstone?
• Chamberlain?
  • Imperialism
  • Protectionism vs. Free Trade

Boer War Divisions:

Liberal Party

• "Pro-Boers" vs. Liberal Imperialists
• David Lloyd George vs. Lord Rosebery

Labour Representation Committee

• Independent Labour Party vs. Fabians
• Keir Hardie vs. George Bernard Shaw
• National efficiency

Pro-Boers and Anti-Imperialism

• J. A. Hobson, Imperialism 1902

General Election of 1900

1902:

• Treaty with Boers
• Arthur Balfour PM
• Chamberlain out
• New Liberal unity

Tariff Reform League (Chamberlain)

• no taxes on imported raw materials
• tax imported food unless imperial
• 10% tax imported mfg. goods
• Unemployment

Liberals and Free Trade

• Big Loaf or Little Loaf?
• Standard of Living

The Mandate

The House of Lords

• 600 Conservatives
• 88 Whigs/Liberals

Education Act of 1902

• merged CE and state schools
• abolished school boards
• abolished elections
• put unified system under local government
• rate support for church schools
• efficiency

Nonconformists

• Act anti-democratic
• Act anti-Nonconformist
  • "Rome on the Rates"
• John Clifford
• Passive Resistance--rates

1904 Licensing Act

• easier pub licensing

1902 Taff Vale Case

• Trade Union immunity stripped
• Law Lords (House of Lords)
• Labour Representation Committee
  • Mobilized for electoral politics

Chinese Labor

• South African Mines
• 47,000 indentured workers
• "Chinese Slavery" (John Clifford)

General Election of 1906

• Convergence of Liberal issues
• Weak Conservative leadership
• No war
• Henry Campbell Bannerman

 Why is the "mandate" such an important issue in British politics?

How did the defenders of the unelected House of Lords justify its constitutional role?

Why were so many voters mad at the Unionist (i.e. Conservative) party by 1906?