BONAR LAW/ BALDWIN 1922-1924
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- Bonar Law/Baldwin 1922-1924
- 1922 Election.
- Conservative win: Andrew Bonar Law (coalition)
- 1923 - Baldwin
- Won 38% popular vote (258 seats)
- Campaign = free trade. BUT needed to pay off war debts to USA.
- Negotiated £46m per annum for 62 years
- ANSWER: public spending cuts and protective tariffs.
- Negotiated £46m per annum for 62 years
- Legislation:
- Housing Act 1923/24
- Housing subsidies from government grant.
- Housing Act 1923/24
- Why lose 1923 election to Labour?
- Stanley Baldwin
- Politically naive - didn't speculate moving forward of election
- Organisation of Party
- timing issues - organisers no time prepare professional campiagn
- SELDON: represented serious failure of leadership on Baldwin's part.
- no time to win over press
- DAILY MAIL: Baldwin's statements on tariffs didn't go far enough
- confused and unprepared
- timing issues - organisers no time prepare professional campiagn
- Organisation of Party
- SELDON: represented serious failure of leadership on Baldwin's part.
- Politically naive - didn't speculate moving forward of election
- Organisation of Party
- timing issues - organisers no time prepare professional campiagn
- no time to win over press
- DAILY MAIL: Baldwin's statements on tariffs didn't go far enough
- confused and unprepared
- timing issues - organisers no time prepare professional campiagn
- Policies
- Cutting welfare measures - highly unpopular
- introduction of tariffs and free trade to protect industry and combat unemployment.
- 1923: unemployment > 1m
- SELDON: policy poorly worked out/conservatives vulnerable to change
- External
- unemployment
- 1923: unemployment > 1m
- Electorate: no one 100% certain. Depression = uncertainty
- reunited Liberal party appealed to public with free trade policy
- unemployment
- Stanley Baldwin
- 1922 Election.
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