... elected was Countess Markievicz, a Sinn Feiner, but she never took her seat. The smallest Government majority was that of the Whigs in 1847. They had one only. Mr. Attlee is the eleventh Prime Minister this century Sir Robert Walpole was Britain's first Premier ...

... nothing of the days of Whigs and Tories. Doesn't he know that the working classes had no vote; it was owning property, business or land that entitled one to fran- It made little diiferer.ce to the ordinary people whether Whigs or Tories were in power ...

... numbers, the Liberal administrator 1906 had a 356 advantage over the rival party. Yet big figures are not essential. In 1847 the Whigs had a majority of one, kept power for five years. Meanwhile, Whitehall has been playing a pleasant little game: that of pretending ...

... Churchill would have been out. The pendulum has swung to and fro regularly for 120 yeara—ever since Lord Grey brought the Whigs back in IS3O. In nearly every case the swing has been sufficient to knock the Government out of office. Not So Lightly But ...