By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected

Contains proceedings of annual conventions.

This study charts the process of internal conversion by which the Edwardian Liberal Party came to favour an advanced social policy.