ABSTRACT
During the autumn of 1928, Lloyd George certainly had a difficult course to steer despite the success with which he had reanimated and Radicalized Liberalism and taken, more and more undisputedly, its Leadership in Parliament and the country. For one thing, by-election figures were again showing that, if the Conservative vote was still weakening, Labour was gaining more as a result than Liberalism. The Liberal Party heard from Lloyd George its Leadership’s decisions, and the Annual Register noted that there was no mention of any Liberal-Labour working arrangement before the General Election but a concentration of attention upon what was to happen if no party obtained a working majority over the other two and the Liberals held the balance. Mr. Neville Chamberlain’s massive and useful legislation must be accepted, then, as tending rather to confirm Conservatives in their allegiance for the General Election than to win over critical sections of the electorate to the Government.
