Titlebook: Parliament, Party and the Art of Politics in Britain, 1855–59; Angus Hawkins Book 1987 Angus Hawkins 1987 Britain.Great Britain.parliament

Folklore

,Milton’s Fallen Angels,e need, among hostile sections of political opinion, for a policy of opposition distinct from mere anti-Palmerstonianism; an opposition policy to shift the political focus away from the person of the premier. This in turn, pointed to that which opposition groups perceived to be their distinctive concern.

驚惶

,‘A Breaker-up of Parties’,survived the months since the 1857 election with an apparent ease that obscured the real precari-ousness of his position. Anxiety about the Indian Mutiny had been subsumed within a moral outcry against the perpetrators of atrocity. Reform legislation had been deferred. Potential sources of political threat had been content that this should be so.

Glutinous

gimmick

Finance, Reform and China, regarded with apprehension’.. In private Lord Grey declared his intention to make the Persian question ‘his great “cheval de bataille”’.. Clarendon anxiously noted that ‘Persia, Naples and China [stood] in awful array next to each other’ promising to ‘give rise to never ending debates’.

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首創(chuàng)精神

Introduction,ffirmed the central role of party in modern British politics. Parliamentary parties and their leaders provided the prestigious centrepiece of Victorian politics. Yet the function of party within the political system was never static. Since the 17th century, parties have assumed a shifting reference

BAIT

Palmerstonian Politics,resented by the miscalculation of others seized with alacrity. Derby, at the head of a unified Conservative party, looked to gaining power on his own terms, and gambled on Russell and Palmerston failing. Russell, facing Whig-Liberal disarray, failed, but tried to keep his options open for the future

北極熊

MEEK

Finance, Reform and China,ng the country would dislike so much as keeping up high taxation’, and that it was ‘hatred of high income tax which [would] animate the people’.. During January Cornewall Lewis required ‘extravagant’. ministers to reduce their departmental estimates enabling him to propose a lower rate of income tax

Fecundity

Reform Deferred,sing principle exists in this negative concern. Why did reform, the imminent focus of political concern during the months of March and April, become, after the election of 1857, an issue of ostensible neglect? In short, a consensual strategy of inaction ensured inactivity.