lacking in talented MPs (all Peelites) so tries to unite in his cabinet
places Disraeli as Chancellor of Exchequer as he is the hope of the Tories
named "Who - Who" ministry as Duke of Wellington kept questioning unfamous MPs
taken down by 1852 budget as Disraeli presented with view that it wasn't great but there wasn't much other option "England does not love coalitions", and Gladstone rebutts this and presents a more successful solution, so everyone votes against Disraeli and the administration falls
DISRAELI
48
in debt
unpopular
not know about finance
only agrees as gets to wear Canning's robes
told "they give you the numbers"
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Aberdeen Coalition 1852-55
Whig-Peelite Coalition
split important posts equally among Peelites and Whigs
shared dislike for Tories
largest party
powerful figures (19/22 years held office)
Cabinet
foreign sec = Russell (prevent radical voting reform) | resigned 1854 but remained as minister without portfolio
home sec = Palmerston (prevent radical foreign policy) | (1853) Factory Act, Smoke Abatement Act | Burials in churches prevented | smallpox vaccine made compulsory | (1854) proposed Reformatory Schools Bill to prevent u16s being heard in adult courts but rejected
chancellor of the exchequer = Gladstone | (1853) budget reduced income tax with aim of removing it by 1860, removed 123 tariffs and lowered 133 | "finance is, as it were, the stomach of the country, from which all other organs take their tone"
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