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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791954003321

Autore

Cole Matthew <1962->

Titolo

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats [[electronic resource] ] : unfinished business / / Matt Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-84779-598-6

1-84779-436-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

941.082092

Soggetti

Legislators - Great Britain

Politicians - Great Britain

Liberalism - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Before parliament -- pt. 2. Outside parliament -- pt. 3. In parliament -- pt. 4. After parliament.

Sommario/riassunto

Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wi