... the Boer war? On the other hand was it a great Liberal victory due to their policy's, their appeal to the public, organisation in the party or was it the Party's ability to attack it opponent's weaknesses. The Tariff Reform policy was put forward by a Liberal Unionist called Joe Chamberlain who had earlier split the Liberals over Irish home rule and unfortunately for the Conservatives he had the same effect on them. The policy itself was put together because of Chamberlains awareness that British Businessmen where suffering because other countries were erecting barriers against British goods. He produced a plan for imperial Preference which he hope would bind the empire closer together. This was implemented by putting Tariffs on goods imported from out side the empire and lower or no Taxes being put on goods imported from countries inside the empire. This split the conservatives into two groups. The first ...

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