Peel 1841-46
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- Peel 1841-46
- Economic reform
- Railways
- Reduced manufacturing costs
- Encouraged British exports
- ensured that businessmen could take confidence from the fact that they were dealing in soundly based paper money
- reduced indirect taxes so that ordinary people had more money to spend on manufactured and other goods
- Why did Peel want to repeal the Corn Laws?
- Irish Potato Famine
- However
- Whigs backed it turning it into a political problem
- Peel acted in the best interest in the country being seen as vindictive to the Tory party
- Why were they so opposed to repeal?
- Many were landowners
- Conservative MPs Believed he boosted the industry in the expense of agriculture
- Many didn’t like his leadership and didn’t trust him
- Other policies he brought in within Ireland and the funding of Catholic college Maynooth went against Torys values
- MPs believed Peel has his head turned because of Corn Laws and Parliament didn’t like resistance groups having an influence
- Railways
- Peel as a person
- Threatened that he would resign if his party didn't back him fully
- Scarcely consulted with his party
- Treated them with contempt
- Why did Peel resign?
- Corn Laws were the occasion not the cause for Peels fall of power, following his defeat of the coercion bill he resigned and lost confidence in his power.
- Economic reform
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