The Effectiveness Of Lord Salisbury As A Leader

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Analysis of Lord Salisbury's Effectiveness as a Leader Lord Salisbury, the most successful conservative leader, had been in office 3 times over 17 years and also passed some key reforms. What really mattered was the fact that he passed reforms that directly affected the working classes, who at the time were the main body of voters; Salisbury was a strong leader and did much to keep the party in line. The Labourers Allotment Act of 1887, allowed local authorities the power to buy land and rent it cheaply to the people in an attempt to improve their health growing more vegetables and healthy foods. They also introduced the Mines regulation act in 1887. This act dramatically changed the safety in mines …show more content…

This again helped to improve the overall state of the nation and would help to reduce future unemployment. . Salisbury was an "unenthusiastic imperialist." He used the issue of the English victory in the Boer War tremendously in the election of 1895 in the favour of the Conservatives. Salisbury saw that imperialism could be used to distract the people from any wayward political issues. It caused a massive amount of frustration with the Liberals, who, already were weakened by the retirement of Gladstone.When we judge the performance of Lord Salisbury, he was an extremely clever politician and his success did not come by chance. He turned the situations in his favour which strengthened his position as a leader within the party. He had excellent diplomatic skills and laid the greatest emphasis on party organization. He developed a cohesive Party when he allied with the Liberal Unionists. He was practical and realistic in his approach and, most importantly, was able to predict and interpret the current political situation. He was against Irish Home Rule, which turned out to be one of the

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