Gladstone wrote to Lord Granville, “I scarcely see how a cabinet could have been formed, if the inclusion of the Irish members had been insisted on; and now I do not see how the scheme and policy can be saved from shipwreck, if the exclusion is insisted on.
In this statement, Gladstone expresses the precarious nature of forming a cabinet without the inclusion of Irish members, highlighting the political tensions of the time.
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