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The Prime Minister, H H Asquith, had intended to appoint Pease to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and was therefore keen to identify a seat at which room could be made for Pease at a by-election. Asquith had taken Pease’s defeat quite hard and had sent him a telegram on 12 January 1910 saying: ‘This is the worst incident ...
[132] Churchill wrote to Asquith after the second 1910 election, "your leadership was the main and conspicuous feature of the whole fight". [129] Matthew, in his article on Asquith, found that, "the episode was the zenith of Asquith's prime ministerial career. In the British Liberal tradition, he patched rather than reformulated the ...
Asquith: portrait of a man and an era (1964) online; Levine, Naomi. Politics, Religion, and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley, and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu (NYU Press, 1991). Murray, Bruce K. The People's Budget, 1909–1910: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics (1980). Packer, Ian.
January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland ← 1906 15–28 January 1910 (1910-01-15 – 1910-01-28) December 1910 → 103 seats for Ireland of the 670 seats in the House of Commons First party Second party Third party Leader John Redmond Edward Carson William O'Brien Party Irish Parliamentary Irish Unionist All-for-Ireland Leader since 1900 1910 15 January 1910 Leader's seat ...
Pages in category "H. H. Asquith" ... H. H. Asquith; 0–9. January 1910 United Kingdom general election; December 1910 United Kingdom general election;
The January 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The government called the election in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the rejection of the People's Budget by the Conservative-dominated House of Lords , in order to get a mandate to pass the budget.
The Lords voted this 1910 Parliament Bill down, so Asquith called a second general election in December 1910, and again formed a minority government. Edward VII had died in May 1910, but George V agreed that, if necessary, he would create 500 new Liberal peers to neutralise the Conservative majority in the Lords. [66]
The January 1910 General Election left the Liberals and Conservatives equally matched, with John Redmond's Irish Nationalists holding the balance of power in the House of Commons. The price of their support to pass the budget through the Commons (the Lords allowed it to pass, as it now had an electoral mandate) was a measure to curb the power ...