Gladstone’s policy is coming to be used as the concrete expression of a whole system of thought, to mean something for itself, and something widely different from either the policy pursued by whigs, or the policy attributed to Lord Palmerston.
Morley notes the significance of Gladstone's policy as a distinct ideological framework.
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