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More from News. Qatar has no plan to normalise ties with Syria: Foreign minister. The Party was further divided over resistance to the Liberal government's reform of the House of Lords in , and Balfour finally resigned the leadership.
The defeats also led to organisational reforms, and in the post of Party Chairman was created to oversee the work of the Central Office. Balfour's unexpected successor, Andrew Bonar Law, restored Party morale with a series of vigorous attacks upon the government and by his support of Ulster during the passage of the Irish Home Rule Bill in As the 'patriotic' party, its advocacy of vigorous prosecution of the war led to increased popularity, and it also benefited from the splits and eventual decline of the Liberal Party.
In December , concerned over lack of direction in the war, the Conservative leaders supported the supplanting of Asquith by a more energetic and charismatic Liberal, David Lloyd George. The Conservatives had a larger share of office in the restructured coalition of , and provided most of the back-bench support in the House of Commons. When victory came in Lloyd George was at the height of his popularity, and Bonar Law readily agreed that the Coalition should continue in order to tackle the problems of peace-making and reconstruction.
However, after economic depression and failures of policy in , the Coalition became increasingly unpopular amongst Conservative MPs and local activists. His approach was too autocratic and inflexible, and he seemed too closely tied to the discredited Lloyd George.
A revolt against the Coalition swelled up from the lower ranks of the party, and Chamberlain was defeated at the meeting of Conservative MPs held at the Carlton Club on 19 October The fall of the Coalition was the formative event in Conservative politics between the wars. It marked a decision to return to normal party politics, with Labour replacing the Liberals as the main opposition. The events of also brought to the fore a group of anti-coalitionist junior ministers who dominated the leadership until Stanley Baldwin was the most important of these, and he replaced the dying Bonar Law as party leader and Prime Minister in May Despite leading the Conservatives into an unnecessary defeat in December and a serious assault upon his position in , Baldwin remained leader until Standing for honesty, moderation and traditional English values, he attracted widespread popular support.
As a result of this and of the Liberal-Labour rivalry, the Conservative Party dominated the inter-war decades. Between and they were the largest party in the House of Commons for all but two and a half years. In the crisis of August the Conservatives agreed to serve under the former Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, in a National government in which the Conservatives formed by far the largest element. The latter's period as leader was dominated by controversy over the policy of appeasement.
Chamberlain exerted a much closer grip over the Party than Baldwin had done, and until the outbreak of war he was strongly supported by the grass-roots and almost all MPs.
However, he seemed less suited to the demands of wartime, and a revolt of Conservative MPs in the Norway debate of May forced his resignation as Prime Minister. Winston Churchill, an isolated Conservative critic during the s, now became Prime Minister; later in the same year he also succeeded Chamberlain as party leader. Churchill rallied the nation, but even his prestige could not shelter the Conservative Party from popular blame for the failures of the s. This led to its second major electoral defeat of the century in , when it was reduced to only MPs.
The Conservatives adapted to this setback whilst in opposition during the Labour governments, and overhauled both organisation and policy. As a result, between the late s and the early s the Conservatives accepted the pillars of the post-war 'consensus': the Welfare State, the public ownership of certain industries, government intervention in economic affairs, and partnership in industry between trade unions and employers.
Although Churchill remained rather unenthusiastic, these policies enabled the Conservatives to regain power in and then to remain in office continuously until The key figures in this period were Anthony Eden, who succeeded Churchill in April but retired after the failed Suez invasion in January ; Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister and Conservative leader from until November ; and R.
Butler twice seemed on the brink of becoming leader and Prime Minister, but in Macmillan was instead unexpectedly succeeded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Macmillan's sudden resignation was due to ill-health, but since his ministry had been mired in economic stagnation and public scandal, and by defeat seemed likely. Although his aristocratic lineage was an easy target for the meritocratic campaign of Labour, Douglas-Home managed to regain some lost ground and the Conservatives only narrowly lost the general election in In August Douglas-Home stood down, and the first formal party leadership election by a ballot of MPs took place; it was also the first change of leadership whilst in opposition since The victor was Edward Heath, whose lower middle-class background was thought more publicly acceptable than the aristocratic image of Macmillan and Douglas-Home.
Heath survived the Party's loss of further seats to Labour in the election, but never secured the affection of the public or Conservative backbenchers.
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