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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?
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