ABSTRACT
Radical opinion of the brand increasingly impatient with Asquith’s caution in economic and international affairs, yet unprepared still for the Labour Party or Socialism, had gone through some strange vicissitudes in the course of 1922. Certainly, if Lloyd George had endeavoured, after Chanak, to face an Election attack on his retention of the Prime Ministership, Henderson, Asquith, and Lord Robert Cecil might very well have been set the problem of constructing a joint Cabinet and programme to last out the lifetime of one Parliament. But Baldwin was under pressure not merely from the Dominion Premiers but from Cabinet Protectionists who conceived that the time had arrived for him to announce that, for the sake of the Unemployed, he favoured a good deal more than a wider range of Imperial Preferences.
