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After the First World War Prime Minister David Lloyd George decided to continue the coalition with Bonar Law's Conservatives, while leaving dissatisfied Liberals led by H.H. Asquith to be separate of Lloyd George's party causing a schism. In the end the Conservatives made massive gains while the Liberal Party had split deeply leading to the rise of the Labour Party. Before the election, a Liberal delegation had met DLG to discuss reunifying the party, which Lloyd George rejected instead opting for the coalition. What if David Lloyd George, the Man who won the War in his zenith, moved to unite the Liberals and end the wartime coalition for the election? Questions are how well would a united Liberal Party headed by DLG have done in 1918 and what effects would it have on British politics down the road?
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