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Britain goes to war.

An in-depth examination of the British Empire from the closing stages of the Victorian era

to the opening phases of the First World War and beyond.

Section Section 2. Background, Part A. The Golden Age. Chapter 8 William Gladstone had been through a lot. Although his Liberal Party won the election in November

1868, he had been given much food for thought over what had happened over the previous years.

The Abdulemites, MPs opposed to further electoral reform, had been absorbed back into the party

once the reform bill of 1867 was passed.

It had passed under the first premiership of Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone's conservative rival,

but the subsequent election with the new power of the voters ended the former's first spell as Prime Minister

and brought Gladstone an overall majority in the

House of Commons. Now it remained to be seen what he would do with it. Gladstone, as a figure,

could not and did not please everyone. Some thought him too radical, some believed he would

push through change to the detriment of the party or even the

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