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Exactly what it says on the tin. In OTL the HMS Hampshire was an armoured cruiser en route to Russia in 1916 when it was sunk by a German submarine. Several important officials were killed by the sinking , including the Minister of War, Lord Kitchener.
Suppose Asquith had decided to send some men from the Treasury to inspect Russia's financial situation- David Lloyd George and John Maynard Keynes. They board the Hampshire and die when it sinks.

Now, I'm no expert on the period but I think this would lead to some pretty big butterflies. Without Lloyd George, either Asquith will stay in office or someone else will take over from him, which will have some pretty major effects on British politics and consequently, on the British war effort. And without Keynes, economics will have lost on of it's titans.
So how do people think the world would have developed in the absence of Lloyd George and Keynes?
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