The New Liberal Programme
The New Liberal Programme

Author: Andrew Reid

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781331333746

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Excerpt from The New Liberal Programme: Contributed by Representatives of the Liberal Party All eyes would be turned towards Mr. Gladstones letter In these pages had that communication not been made public already. As we are celebrating the Jubilee of the Queen, it is interesting to reflect that there are two families which may be said to have lived for many years more than all others in the sight of the British people. We have no example, I believe, in our history, of the family of a citizen which has dwelt so largely, so simply, and so honourably before all the nation as the Gladstone family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964
The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964

Author: Peter Sloman

Publisher: Oxford Historical Monographs

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0198723504

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The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analyses the diverse intellectual influences which shaped British Liberals' economic thought up to the mid-twentieth century, and highlights the ways in which the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets. Peter Sloman shows that Liberals' enthusiasm for public works and Keynesian economic management - which David Lloyd George launched onto the political agenda at the 1929 general election - was only intermittently matched by support for more detailed forms of state intervention and planning. Likewise, the party's support for redistributive taxation and social welfare provision was frequently qualified by the insistence that the ultimate Liberal aim was not the expansion of the functions of the state but the pursuit of 'ownership for all'. Liberal policy was thus shaped not only by the ideas of reformist intellectuals such as John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, but also by the libertarian and distributist concerns of Liberal activists and by interactions with the early neoliberal movement. This study concludes that it was ideological and generational changes in the early 1960s that cut the party's links with the New Right, opened up common ground with revisionist social democrats, and re-established its progressive credentials.