The Road to War

The Liberal landslide victory of 1906 had swept into the Commons many MPs who hoped, above all else, that the new government would decisively break with the foreign and imperial policies of Balfour’s discredited regime. These Radicals took reassurance from Campbell-Bannerman, who, during the election campaign, had struck an authentically Liberal note, excoriating the recent growth of armaments and arguing that Britain’s role was ‘to place itself at the head of a league of peace’.

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