ABSTRACT
In the years after the Home Rule split in the Liberal party, its managers adopted a policy of showing sympathy towards Labour canditates and Labour aspirations. They encouraged the new progress-ivism in London County Council politics. The progressives were a broad coalition of radical business and professional men, municipal reformers, Fabian socialists and labour leaders. In the years after the Home Rule split in the Liberal party, its managers adopted a policy of showing sympathy towards Labour canditates and Labour aspirations. They encouraged the new progress-ivism in London County Council politics. The progressives were a broad coalition of radical business and professional men, municipal reformers, Fabian socialists and labour leaders. Keir Hardie’s conciliatory attitude to the radicals in West Ham South gave rise to misunderstandings. The Liberal party treated him as a supporter of Gladstone and displayed his victory in lights at party headquarters as one of their own.
