Abstract
For nearly three decades — from 1852 to 1881 — two men — Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone — were to dominate British politics. To say that they did not get on would be a monumental under-statement. They came to hate each other with a visceral fury. Nor was this attenuated by any respect for each other’s personal qualities. For Gladstone, Disraeli was nothing more than a ‘charlatan’, while Dizzy regarded Gladstone as a ‘humbug’.
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Leonard, D. (2008). William Ewart Gladstone — From ‘Stern Unbending Tory’ to ‘the People’s William’. In: Nineteenth-Century British Premiers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227255_19
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