Party packs
Is it possible to form a stable coalition with more than one political party? The Conservative/Lib Dem coalition of 2010– 2015 was in fact unique in being the only British coalition featuring just two parties.
— Lord Aberdeen’s coalition on 1852–55 was made up of 11 Whigs, six Peelites and one Radical, Sir William Molesworth, who served as First Commissioner of Works and was later described by Gladstone as ‘perfectly harmless’. He did, however, give us Westminster Bridge.
— The wartime coalitions of Asquith (1915–16) and Lloyd George (1916–22) were mostly Liberals and Conservatives but also had three Labour junior ministers and an Irish Nationalist, James O’Connor, who served as solicitor general for Ireland.
— Churchill’s wartime coalition (1940–45) had an independent, John Anderson, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and also a United Australia Party MP: Richard Casey, Minister-Resident for the Middle East.
Lands of lost children
Britain was reported to have a higher infant mortality rate than Poland.
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