... allegiance to the Conservatives. These Liberal voters did not switch to Labour for a number of reasons. Firstly they had been alienated by the fact that the Labour party had withdrawn from an earlier pact with the Liberals. Secondly, it had, by the 1930s, come to be dominated by the trade unions and assumed the appearance, if not the reality, of being the party of left wing politics. This impression was reinforced by the fact that it had also split with the Fabian Society and was later to split with the Independent Labour Party (in 1932). By 1931 Labour Party organisation was also weak. There was a decline in the number of full-time election agents, and Introduction to structure - two main sections Introduction to topic. Reasons why former Liberals switched allegiance to Conservatives Reasons why Liberal voters did not switch to Labour unemployment, which had been growing since 1927, ...

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