ABSTRACT
The General Election of 1922 will probably be regarded as marking the definite beginning of a new era in British politics. The century of strenuous political activity which preceded the Great War, both Parliament and the country were broadly divided between two great political forces, namely a party of Conservation and a party of Progress. But on the whole they held together, and combined to maintain successive ministries in power. The Great War, which has changed, brought to an end the traditional alignment of political forces. The principles and aims of liberalism is defined in such a way as to make it plain either that liberalism represents a quite distinctive attitude, differing equally from that of Conservatism and from that of the Labour party, or that it is a sort of compromise or half-way house, a middle party of moderate men with no characteristic or definable standpoint of its own.
