![]() ![]() The Liberals also enjoyed regional bases in Scotland and Wales. ![]() ![]() Gradually, middle class support slipped from the Liberals to the Conservatives, but the Liberals became the party of industrial workers. But government would take steps to take the rough edges off capitalism. ![]() In the 1890s, the Liberals started to embrace a more interventionist approach. Like Canada's Liberal party, Britain's Liberal party had roots in a classical liberal philosophy of legal equality and free trade. George Dangerfield captured the feeling of political observers in the title of his 1935 classic The Strange Death of Liberal England. It wasn't reduced to rubble all at once, of course, but the transition from dominance to irrelevance was swift and bewildering. The history in question is that of Britain's Liberal party, which dominated British politics in the late 19th century, laid the foundations of the modern welfare state at the beginning of the 20th century, led Britain in the First World War. If history repeats, we are about a decade away from the publication of a book called "The Strange Death of Liberal Canada." ![]()
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