Liberal Party
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Oct 18, 2026
Dominic FrisbyHOST
It goes
James TurkGUEST
to 1907 and the promises of the Liberal Party.
James TurkGUEST
National insurance.
James TurkGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Colin BarrGUEST
get to what you want recognizing that other people have needs of their own that may not be compatible he's able to apply that to politics so for example in the 1860s this very very in many ways conservative catholic figure he's the cardinal archbishop of dublin from 1866 This is a time when Rome and Pius IX are denouncing liberty, denouncing freedom of conscience, denouncing the separation of church and state.
Colin BarrGUEST
And Cullen forms an alliance with John Bright, the most radical contemporary British Liberal Party's coalition.
Colin BarrGUEST
And that's an astonishing alliance, which is founded on mutual interests.
Patrick GeogheganHOST
You have another great chapter title about Daniel O'Connell, the great, the glorious Daniel O'Connell.
Colin BarrGUEST
I think it's, as I've said before, he is the figure that fills the gap between O'Connell and Parnell, a full generation, 30 years.
Colin BarrGUEST
And he stands at the political centre of Irish life.
Colin BarrGUEST
He builds an alliance with the Liberal Party that results...
Colin BarrGUEST
In political terms, in the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, the first measure of land reform, modest though it was, the expansion of Irish Catholicism, the schools, the hospitals, maudlin laundries less happily, huge numbers of priests, huge numbers of religious sisters.
Tim McGarryHOST
Yeah.
Cormac MooreHOST
Liberal Party.
Cormac MooreHOST
They, it, it cut it asunder.
Cormac MooreHOST
Like, cut it in two.
David DavisGUEST
Yeah.
Jacob Rees-MoggPANELIST
If you go back to the, uh, 1870s, and it's really interesting 'cause it's been missed until people have started using AI to read local newspapers, and they've discovered in the 1870s both the Conservatives and the Liberals employed thugs to go around-
David DavisGUEST
Mm
Jacob Rees-MoggPANELIST
... and bash up other people's political meetings and physically assault people.
Larry P. ArnnGUEST
He's looking at the bombing one night.
Larry P. ArnnGUEST
In this chapter, he tells a story, and, uh, he's with three people, and, uh, they are Archibald Sinclair, who was the head of the Liberal Party, and, uh, uh, who are they? Oh, Mor Brabazon, and I'm forgetting the third name right now, but I'll get it.
Larry P. ArnnGUEST
Who are those guys? Churchill knew those guys for decades.
Larry P. ArnnGUEST
Archibald Sinclair was Churchill's number two when he fought in the trenches in World War I.
Larry ArnnGUEST
He's looking at the bombing one night.
Larry ArnnGUEST
In this chapter, he tells a story and, uh, he's with three people and, uh, they are Archibald Sinclair, who was the head of the Liberal Party, and, uh, uh ...
Larry ArnnGUEST
Who are they? Oh, Mor Brabazon, and I'm forgetting the third name right now, but I'll get it.
Larry ArnnGUEST
Who are those guys? Churchill knew those guys for decades.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And he's with three people.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And they are Archibald Sinclair, who was the head of the Liberal Party.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And who are they? Oh, Moore Brabazon.
Larry ArnnGUEST
And I'm forgetting the third name right now, but I'll get it.
speaker_6GUEST
Their father, Richard, was a radical barrister.
speaker_6GUEST
He was a member of the Liberal Party, but he was always regarded as an extremist, which he was.
speaker_6GUEST
So he supported things like free state education for children, the abolition of the House of Lords, all sorts of things like that.
speaker_2GUEST
His wife was very involved in political campaigning.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
It was on their return that all members of the family would be enveloped in the newly formed Independent Labour Party.
speaker_3GUEST
The Independent Labour Party emerged out of the desire and the agreement amongst a range of radical organisations that working people should aim for parliamentary representation.
speaker_2GUEST
I think the Independent Labour Party also really appeals to the Pankhurst family because this is a much more radical political party than the Liberal Party.
speaker_5GUEST
There was a whole culture around the Independent Labour Party.
Richard JohnsonHOST
And Attlee also recognized that the Liberals who were putting forward this proposal for proportional representation, although they dressed it up in high-minded principle, just as Liberal Democrats do today, it was actually for cynical reasons of partisan advantage.
Richard JohnsonHOST
Attlee said, "I realize that the real point of the motion is that the Liberal Party are asking the government to devise some scheme for the revival of the Liberal Party.
Richard JohnsonHOST
One of the honorable members said about the awful gambling that there is in voting under first past the post.
Richard JohnsonHOST
Well, I think the biggest gamble of all in voting is voting Liberal, because when you have got a Liberal, you have not got the slightest idea what he'll do.
Lee EvansHOST
So the Liberals at that stage were not in a position where they could field candidates in the vast majority of seats.
Lee EvansHOST
And so with so many people voting for the two major parties, the likelihood of having results that were, in terms of seats out of kilter with the votes of the country, was actually quite reduced.
Lee EvansHOST
So the issue loses salience in the middle of the century, but from the 1970s onwards begins to re-emerge as you get a resurgent Liberal Party under the leadership of Jeremy Thorpe, as you get Scottish nationalists in particular, but also some Welsh nationalists beginning to assert themselves at this time and stand in more elections.
Lee EvansHOST
And by the 1990s, the issue is actually really heating up.
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