Why the Liberals won the 1880 General Election
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- Why the Liberals won the 1880 General Election
- Economic depression
- Particularly severe in farming with far more cheap food imports
- Disraeli no longer saw protectionism practical
- Unemployment increased by 1879
- Difficulties in the empire
- Disraeli's foreign policies were costly and unpopular sometimes
- Gladstone's Midlothian campaigns
- high profile and attacked by Disraeli - got a lot of attention
- Party Organisation
- The Liberals improved their organisation with the National Liberal Federation
- The conservative party organisation was weakening
- The Liberals were better organised at Local Levels
- Economic depression
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