Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
11 - Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
For a statement of Liberal Party policy and intentions on the eve of the general election of 1906, no single Liberal Party manifesto exists. Reference needs to be made to the address to the voters of Stirling Burghs by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, their representative in eight successive Parliaments since 1868 and now Prime Minister. It was largely concerned with the record of the late government which Campbell-Bannerman described as ‘in the main a legacy of embarrassment, an accumulation of public mischief and confusion absolutely appalling in its extent and its ramifications’ and with a critique of Unionist policy for the future which, he considered, embodied the most mischievous characteristics of their past. He concluded:
Should we be confirmed in office it will be our duty, whilst holding fast to the time-honoured principles of Liberalism – the principles of peace, economy, self-government and civil and religious liberty – and whilst resisting with all our strength the attack upon Free Trade, to repair, so far as lies in our power, the mischief wrought in recent years, and, by a course of strenuous legislation and administration, to secure those social and economic reforms which have been too long delayed.
Education, which had provoked such strong feeling both in 1902 and in Wales thereafter, received only passing mention. Along with other domestic legislation, the manifesto suggested, it had been treated by the late government more with the aim of propitiating its powerful friends than in settling a problem of national consequence with due regard to its needs.1 It was only as the election campaign proceeded that the issue received attention.
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- Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 , pp. 232 - 254Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999