Liberals' Victory in the 1906 Election

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Liberals' Victory in the 1906 Election

There are various reasons given as to why the Liberals succeeded in

winning the 1906 elections, decline in support towards the

Conservative party, a new Liberal attitude which enabled its members

to reunite instead of seeing their seperate ways which is what lead to

their initial collapse.

The Conservative Party like the Liberal Party split over the issue of

Free Trade and failed to reunite, unlike the Liberals which did so and

remained so. With the Liberals being reunited regarding the issues

they believed in and campaigned for enabled them to attack the

Conservatives more easily. The Liberals unlike the Conservative Party

weren't affected and too greatly bothered by the failure of their

attempts to win the Boer War. The Conservatives felt dishonoured at

the fact that there attempts to imperialise and aggrandize their

colonies and empires failed miserably.

The Conservative Party was beginning to decline in popularity. The

became disillusioned with imperialism after the B...

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