1. The Early Liberal Party and Women's Suffrage
... Source 16 says, the progressive ideology of the Liberal Party was at odds with considerations of political advantage'. Overall, after their 1906 landslide victory, the Liberal Party and its leader Herbert Asquith felt that giving women the vote would damage the prospects of its social programs succeeding especially. Although many members of the Liberal Party were privately supportive of women suffrage ... (such as David Lloyd George) this was not in harmony with the main party line. Before 1906, none of the bills for the enfranchisement of the women were introduced by the government but...
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