Asquith dies in WW1 as PM

WI Asquith had died, either effects of alcohol or some freak accident or even enemy action.

Does Lloyd George get to lead the coalition with a united Liberal Party?
 

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Probably saves the Liberal Party as a major political force in the long run (maybe reduced to third party status, but still much more potent than OTL) without Asquith and Lloyd George's fallings-out. Don't know how it affects the war.
 
I see one area which might enable the Grits to survive at least in the short term: outflanking Labour on the franchise. Thinking in strategic terms of pleasing the Left, set a goal of universal suffrage for those 21 and older. Do it in stages for a trickle effect, since a single omnibus bill is rather unlikely.
 
During the night of October 19th 1915 Asquith became seriously ill.
'I have not spent a day in bed for almost untold years,' he wrote on the 19th, 'nor do I quite know what is the matter with me.' But Margot [his wife] thought she did. 'I have had an agonising time,' she wrote to Lady Islington on October 26th. 'I never got such a fright in my life. I thought Henry was absolutely done. I think he thought so too.' The doctor's diagnosis, she added, was that 'overwork, hot rooms and no sort of exercise had gripped his liver and driven bad blood all over him.' After the first attack he slept for thirty-six hours. A week later he was substantially well, and by the beginning of November he was back in full harness.
Taken from the book Asquith by Roy Jenkins, London: Collins, 1964.

So Asquith dies on October 19th 1915. I think that probably Lloyd George does not become Prime Minister.
In quarrelling with Lloyd George and Churchill [Lloyd George] had lost his
closest allies. He had antagonised Bonar Law some months back, when the posts in the new coalition were being apportioned. And he was viewed with profound suspicion by the more upright Tories, like Balfour and Long. Carson, who might have proved a valuable ally, had rashly resigned in October in protest against the government's failure to aid Serbia. So even though many Conservative ministers supported Lloyd George's stand over conscription, they had little time for him personally. As for the Liberal and Labour members of the government, they found his views and his character equally distasteful.
Taken from the introduction to Chapter 8 The Political Crisis (II), November 1915-January 1916 of The Political Diaries of C.P. Scott 1911-1928, edited with an introduction and commentary by Trevor Wilson, London: Collins, 1970.

I suggest that the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, would probably become Prime Minister. How long would he stay in office and would Lloyd George replace him as did Asquith? The Asquith/Lloyd George split in the Liberal Party might be replaced by a Grey/Lloyd George split.
 
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