It will be a vital danger to the country and to the empire, if at a time when a demand from Ireland for larger powers of self-government is to be dealt with, there is not in parliament a party totally independent of the Irish vote.”(154) Loud and long sustained have been the reverberations of this clanging sentence.
Morley highlights the critical need for an independent party in Parliament to address Ireland's demands for self-government.
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