Reading - Suf fragette violence, rejection of home rule for Ireland which threatened civil war, indus- trial and mining strikes (Great unrest), kaiser's megalomania, - Liberals forced to discuss issues uncomfortable to them with the beginning of the war: patriotism, xenophobia, censorship, state management of the economy. Important events: - Coming to power of Lloyd George, after Asquith required a coalition in 1915 which split the Liberals. - Conservatives became centrality of British politics - Challenge of Labour against the Liberals - 1920 - not likely the Liberals will make a comeback. - Victorian/Edwradian period underwent mass change in politics but Liberalism was brittle and didn't change because it was unadaptable. - Idea of New Liberalism which economically and socially changed - - Lloyd George - 1920s - Pacif i st foreign policy, generosity towards Ireland, free trade, freedom of individual against claims of expanding Whitehall. - Dangerf i eld - argues long, internal erosion of the liberal party and from 1910, 3 things exposed the weakness of the party under Asquith: 1. Great Unrest 2. Home Rule agitation with Ireland 3. Suf fragette violence and hunger strikes Not radical enough to handle the situation and exposure of weakness occurred.