9 Facts About The Liberal Party

1. The Liberal Party set a leadership convention for June 23, 1990, in Calgary.

2. The Labour The Liberal Party benefited most from this huge change in the electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.

3. The Liberal Party resigned as Prime Minister and was succeeded by Bonar Law.

4. The Liberal Party insisted on conscription of young men into the Army, a position that deeply troubled his old colleagues.

5. The Liberal Party insisted on strong government controls over business as opposed to the laissez-faire attitudes of traditional Liberals.

6. The Liberal Party was succeeded by Asquith, who stepped up the government's radicalism.

7. The Liberal Party led the party to a heavy defeat in the 1895 general election.

8. The Liberal Party strongly disagreed with Disraeli's pro-Ottoman foreign policy and in 1880 he conducted the first outdoor mass-election campaign in Britain, known as the Midlothian campaign.

9. The Liberal Party secured the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the army and of religious tests for admission to Oxford and Cambridge; the introduction of the secret ballot in elections; the legalization of trade unions; and the reorganization of the judiciary in the Judicature Act.