In the late 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party seemed doomed to irrelevance. Its few MPs held their seats as a result of pacts to which Winston Churchill turned a blind eye. Its share of the vote was just 2.5%. Clement Davies, its leader at the time, in one of the bravest decisions he made, refused an offer of a merger from Churchill and chose to soldier on. However, it was Grimond, who picked up the mantle of leader after Davies' resignation and, in the face of seemingly insuperable odds, turned the fortunes of the Liberal Party around. When Grimond passed the torch on to his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals were secure in their independence as the third force in British politics.
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'A lion of the Liberal cause' - PADDY ASHDOWN
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978-1-84341-006-5 (9781843410065)
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MICHAEL MCMANUS was educated at Winchester and Lincoln College, Oxford where he gained a 1st in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, winning the Gibbs prize for the best politics papers in the university. He has worked in Conservative Central Office and from 1995 to 2000 ran the private office of Sir Edward Heath, during which time he helped extensively with the preparation and writing of Sir Edward's prize-winning memoirs published by Hodder Headline. He stood as Conservative candidate in Watford in the 2001 election. He lives in Watford.
