What-if Lloyd-George abandoned the war-time coalition before the '18 elections?

The 1918 general election was a massive victory for the war-time coalition of David Lloyd George's National Liberals and Andrew Bonar Law's Torys. The Tory's dominated that coalition however, owing to a split in the Liberal Party between Asquith and Lloyd-George supporters.

The war-time coalition collapsed over disagreements on economic policies, and over Tory fears the Lloyd-George was going to be able to bring moderate Torys and his Liberals together into a new permanent political party.

In 1945 Labour refused to maintain the war-time coalition, and in the ensuing election won a large victory that they then used to remake the UK. What if Lloyd-George took a similar approach, ending the wartime coalition and running as a Liberal instead as part of a coalition? Asquith's Liberals got destroyed trying to stand against that coalition, and much of that momentum had to have been derived from winning the recent war. If Lloyd George runs alone, could have won an out-right majority, and perhaps saved the Liberal Party?
 
Both the Asquithian and the L-G Liberals would almost certainly have been destroyed. They'd have ran against each other in Liberal seats and the Tories would have ran through the middle.

End result: Bonar-Law is Prime Minister with a historic majority. Both of the Liberal factions end up with around thirty to fifty seats combined. Labour is the new official opposition.

If the Liberals go into the election united (and that is a very, very big if) then they would have stood a much better chance, and wouldn't have got destroyed, although I suspect the result would have eventually resulted in something close to a hung Parliament.
 
Both the Asquithian and the L-G Liberals would almost certainly have been destroyed. They'd have ran against each other in Liberal seats and the Tories would have ran through the middle.

End result: Bonar-Law is Prime Minister with a historic majority. Both of the Liberal factions end up with around thirty to fifty seats combined. Labour is the new official opposition.

So this is what Lloyd George must have imagined, which is why he kept the war-time coalition going. He must have believed that he could forge some kind of new ruling consenus, although obviously he was unable to keep it together and the coalition failed.

If the Liberals go into the election united (and that is a very, very big if) then they would have stood a much better chance, and wouldn't have got destroyed, although I suspect the result would have eventually resulted in something close to a hung Parliament.

This would only work if LG believes he will win an outright majority in the upcoming election. He would have to both reunite his own Liberal Party and bring a number of moderate Conservatives along with him. The wikipedia articles about the war-time coalition claim that it was Conservative fears that LG's leadership would split the Conservative Party, not actual policy disagreements, that drove Law to break with LG and dissolve the war-time coalition. If LG has re-united the Liberal Party, he might be willing to go for those potential splits, pushing policies he knows will create fissures in the Conservative Party and essentially forcing them out of the war-time coalition. LG plays his "heroic, victorious war prime-minister" card, gains some Conservative crossovers, and gets a slim majority in '18. Is this enough to save the Liberal Party and give LG the majority he needs to pursue his social policies? What will the Irish situation do to his Liberal Party?
 
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