ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the temporary end of party politics in Britain, with the disappearance of the Tory party and the disintegration of the Whig oligarchy into warring factions, followed by the reincarnation of party through the medium of the Rockinghams and Charles Fox, who can be seen as the natural heirs of the Whig Junto, Old Corps tradition. The new Whig party of Rockingham, Fox and Portland which emerged late in period was more secular in its original ideological thrust. 'The Second British Empire which began to develop alongside the old colonial system', Vincent Harlow continues later, was not in fact an empire in the normal sense. Britain in 1783 was, as Eric Evans has put it, 'the most developed nation on earth'. She was the possessor of the most open society, the most sophisticated financial infrastructure.
