... Also he felt that the middle class should get away from the Radical ideas, he felt that the working class were not an important issue in the Great Reform Act. When the 1832 Reform Act was passed it had these points in them, the majority of the middle class were given the vote and the working class weren't so Russell's views were taken into consideration and ended up being in the Great Reform Act. The Duke of Wellington was leader of the Tory opposition and rejected the idea of Reform completely, this made him very unpopular and in 1832 Thomas Attwood and other leading figures led a national uprising to prevent his return. So Wellington's views were against reform so the fact that the Reform Act came into place in 1832 shows that his views didn't prevail. In fact he was so against the Reform Act it led to the Tory ...

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