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Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.
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This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state.
David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment !, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status.
Quickly rising to prominence among the Pro-Boers was David Lloyd George, a relatively new MP and a master of rhetoric, who took advantage of having a national stage to speak out on a controversial issue to make his name in the party.
Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.
Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.
Lloyd George and Churchill, however, were zealous supporters of the war, and gradually forced the old pacifist Liberals out.
This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.
David Lloyd George
In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, " the Man Who Won the War ", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly emerging Labour Party.
Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.
Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.
In 1922 the Conservative backbenchers rebelled against the continuation of the coalition, citing in particular the Chanak Crisis over Turkey and Lloyd George's corrupt sale of honours amongst other grievances, and Lloyd George was forced to resign.
Asquith died in 1928 and the enigmatic figure of Lloyd George returned to the leadership and began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day.
Lloyd George himself was ill and did not actually join.
From the outside, Lloyd George called for the party to abandon the government completely in defence of free trade, but only a few MPs and candidates followed.
In the 1935 general election, just 17 Liberal MPs were elected, along with Lloyd George and three followers as " independent Liberals ".
Immediately after the election the two groups reunited, though Lloyd George declined to play much of a formal role in his old party.
In 1957 this total fell to five when one of the Liberal MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost to the Labour Party, which selected the former Liberal Deputy Leader Lady Megan Lloyd George as its own candidate.
* David Lloyd George 1926 – 1931
* Megan Lloyd George 1949 – 1951
** David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Lloyd George and the honours scandal.
* John Thomas, Alternative America: Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Adversary Tradition.
Lloyd and offered
Churchill offered Lloyd George a place in his Cabinet but he refused, citing his dislike of Chamberlain.
After Bonar Law had refused to wait until the hand was finished, Asquith offered him the job, but he declined as he had already agreed with Lloyd George that the latter should have the job.
Lloyd offered land to the government in exchange for Ebensburg becoming the county seat, which the government accepted.
At that time, Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano offered mostly domestic flights, each of which with several stopovers ( which was normal at a time where the range of airlines was very limited compared to today's situation ).
By then, Santa Cruz had replaced Cochabamba as the largest hub for Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano ( now flag carrier of Bolivia ), with another one having been opened at Trinidad Airport, and international routes being offered from La Paz Airport.
Lloyd George, Birkenhead and Winston Churchill ( still distrusted by many Conservatives ) wished to use armed force against Turkey ( the Chanak Crisis ), but had to back down when offered support only by New Zealand, but not Canada, Australia or South Africa ; an anonymous letter appeared in " The Times " supporting the government but stating that Britain could not " act as the policeman for the world ", and it was an open secret that the author, " A Colonial ", was in fact Bonar Law.
Towards the end of negotiations, Lloyd George threatened, " immediate and terrible war " if the Irish did not accept the terms offered.
In October 1919 Wilson warned Churchill that the planned introduction of Irish Home Rule that autumn would lead to trouble and, given concerns that Robertson lacked the subtlety for the Irish Command which Churchill had offered him, asked him to consult the Prime Minister, perhaps in the knowledge that Lloyd George disliked Robertson.
He was offered the job of directing Cats by Lloyd Webber but turned it down.
After months of acting and singing auditions, Hal Prince offered the still relatively unknown Paige the title role of Eva Perón in the first stage production of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita.
A respite from Childers's military career was offered on 27 July 1917, when Sir Horace Plunkett asked that he be assigned to the secretariat of Prime Minister Lloyd George's Home Rule Convention initiative in Dublin Castle.
In 2005, Lloyd offered his patronage to Major League Cricket for their inaugural Interstate Cricket Cup in the United States, to be named the Sir Clive Lloyd Cup.
Lloyd George offered Robertson a choice of remaining as CIGS in London with reduced powers ( reporting to the Secretary of State for War rather than directly to the War Cabinet ), or else accepting demotion to the Versailles job.
Although he had been offered another contract, Lloyd said that " now is my time from a physical and mental point of view " and that he would "... prefer to go a year too early than a year too late.
Unlike his fellow Northampton MP Charles McCurdy, Lees-Smith allied with H. H. Asquith rather than David Lloyd George in the Liberal split during the First World War, and as a consequence was not offered support by the Coalition in the 1918 general election.
Applegarth spent his retirement in Brighton, where he was offered the title of Companion of Honour by Lloyd George in 1917.
Lloyd had offered the part of the banker Matherson to his friend Joseph Cotten.
Lloyd died in 1789, his widow and her two oldest, single daughters were happy to move into the unused Deane parsonage offered by Rev.
However, when Lloyd George became Prime Minister in December 1916, Wood was not offered a post in the government.
Allegedly the then England coach David Lloyd had offered Mullally 30 pints of Guinness to score 30 in that match.
At the conclusion of the camp, Michigan Wolverines football head coach Lloyd Carr offered him a scholarship as an offensive tackle.
Alan la Roche and Dufty Bell negotiated with Lloyd Elsmore ( the mayor at the time ) and the Society was offered five acres next to Bell House.
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