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When, after the war, the remarkable growth of the Labour Party showed how vast was the decline of the Liberal hold upon the working-classes, the Liberal leaders were driven, by the need of self-preservation, to the invention of industrial principles likely to prove attractive to trade unionists.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes the Labour Party's rise following the decline of the Liberal Party's influence.

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