Abstract

England: the two Parties and Their Troubles

This article presents information about prevailing conflicts in the two political parties of Great Britain — Conservative Party and Liberal Party. Each party has a disaffected wing, a minority displeased with the conduct of the leaders and threatening to detach itself from the main body. The Conservatives throughout the country and particularly those who are not habitually active as party workers, have not these consolations. It is among them that one hears loud murmurs of disaffection, mixed with threats that they will abstain from voting, or speaking or exercising their influence at the general election on behalf of their chiefs and members. The causes of Liberal discussion are different. The most conspicuous errors and failures of the late Liberal Government were in the sphere of foreign policy.