02655nam 2200649 a 450 991080824790332120240313080101.01-84779-598-61-84779-436-X10.7765/9781847794369(CKB)2560000000085724(OCoLC)818847519(MiAaPQ)EBC1069682(DE-B1597)659360(DE-B1597)9781847794369(EXLCZ)99256000000008572420110712d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRichard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats unfinished business /Matt Cole1st ed.Manchester ;New York Manchester University Press20111 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-8899-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Before parliament -- pt. 2. Outside parliament -- pt. 3. In parliament -- pt. 4. After parliament.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 WiLegislatorsGreat BritainBiographyPoliticiansGreat BritainBiographyLiberalismGreat BritainHistory20th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and government1945-Jeremy Thorpe.Lib-Lab Pact.Liberal Democrats.Liberal MP.Liberal Party.Richard Wainwright.SDP-Liberal Alliance.Yorkshire constituency.poverty.voluntary work.LegislatorsPoliticiansLiberalismHistory941.082092Cole Matthew1962-1695245MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808247903321Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats4074352UNINA