Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats:
Unfinished Business now available in paperback, offers new research
on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and
locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years
during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more
than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from
voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two,
but saw war at its cruelest; he joined the Liberal Party when most
had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election
but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wilson's landslide of
1966. He then played a key role in the fall of Jeremy Thorpe, the
Lib-Lab Pact and the formation of the SDP-Liberal Alliance and the
Liberal Democrats; he represented a unique Yorkshire constituency
which reflected his pride and hope for society; and though he gave
his life to the battle to be in the Commons, he refused a seat in
the Lords.Richard Wainwright's story is central to the story of the
Liberal Party and sheds light on the reasons for its survival and
the state of its prospects. At the same time this book is a parable
of politics for anyone who wants to represent an apparently lost
cause, who wants to motivate people who have been neglected, and
who wants to follow their convictions at the highest level.
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