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was known to be totally committed to his old chief and was perhaps not the right choice to lead the negotiations between the rival wings of the party as they struggled to come to an accommodation and towards an eventual reunion. Or perhaps he was exactly what
Asquith and the official party wanted. One historian comments that the appointment of Phillipps underlined the reluctance of the official Liberals to renew their connection with the former prime minister while another suggests that Asquith sacked Hogge and deliberately appointed Phillipps in order to thwart reunion at that time. The
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forced to resign from the party's
Administrative Committee. The Liberal Council was set up by Phillipps and a number of other distinguished Liberals with the object of rallying those party members who opposed Lloyd George and his money and to supply sympathetic constituency associations with speakers, literature and candidates. Phillipps never overcame his distrust of Lloyd George and his enmity towards him. When Conservative newspapers began trying to uncover damaging information about the Lloyd George Fund and the sale of honours Phillipps was one of their prime sources.
467:. The electorate was coming to see the political system as a left-right battle between the principal challengers on those wings of British politics, Labour and Conservative. There was little room for the Liberals in a system which discriminated against third parties and in a tight three-way contest in Edinburgh West Phillipps lost his seat to the Conservatives. Overall the Liberal Party's Parliamentary strength was reduced to 40 seats. Phillipps stood again in Edinburgh West at the
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345:(nÊe Tennant), the wife of the prime minister. When Asquith was replaced as prime minister by Lloyd George in December 1916, he asked Phillipps to become his private secretary, a post he held between 1917 and 1922. He gained a reputation at this time as being the most implacable opponent of Lloyd George of the circle around Asquith.
434:. However, there were other issues to be resolved before formal reunion could be achieved, notably the question of access for the former independent Liberals to monies in the Lloyd George fund, the sizeable treasure chest which he had amassed over the years including by the sale of honours during his time in
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as Whip, so
Asquith appointed him to be Thorne's colleague. Thorne resigned in 1923 and Asquith took the opportunity to replace Hogge as well, immediately appointing Phillipps to the post of Chief Whip, even though as a newly elected MP he was inexperienced in Parliamentary terms. Moreover, Phillipps
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Phillipps served as
Chairman of the Liberal Party Organisation from 1925â27 and was one of the secretaries to the Liberal Council, a group of Liberal grandees opposed to Lloyd George. These appointments proved difficult for Phillipps because Asquith was out of the House of Commons again after losing
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agreed to allow Labour to take office, causing further disagreements within the party. Phillipps, as Chief Whip, had to issue a statement at one point officially denying a split between
Asquith and Lloyd George on the question of turning out the Baldwin government. On occasions the party's MPs were
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in 1925, playing a diminishing role in the party, eventually resigning as leader in 1926. Lloyd George assumed the leadership. Questions of money and organisation proved onerous. Phillipps chaired a fund raising initiative called the 'Million
Fighting Fund' but the appeal was a disaster and he was
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but found himself out of step again with Lloyd George over the issue of reducing unemployment by state intervention. The impression given to the electorate was of a still divided
Liberal Party. It was again a reasonably close three-cornered contest but Phillipps came third and he decided not to try
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Asquith and Lloyd George factions within the Liberal Party.) Asquith was by now back in the House of Commons having won a
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Less controversially perhaps, Phillipps was a member of the West Kent
Unemployment Appeal Tribunal, 1934â40 and the Kent Agricultural Wages Committee, 1935â40. He also served on the
509:; published by Pillans & Wilson of Edinburgh and printed "for private circulation". Douglas has described it as a "useful record to how matters looked to a devoted Asquithian".
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but he and Lloyd George were initially cool on the possibility of reunion The problem of reunion spilled over into internal party appointments. In 1919, Asquith had selected
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opponents, increasing his majority to 2,232, when some commentators had forecast he would lose.
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182:, the son of Henry Mitchell Phillipps. In 1883, he went to
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British Politics 1910-1935: The Crisis of the Party System
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Phillipps' first employment was as a teacher of German at
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The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929
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A History of the Liberal Party in the Twentieth Century
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218:in Edinburgh. While there he wrote a text-book,
998:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
905:contributions in Parliament by Vivian Phillipps
220:A Short Sketch of German Literature for Schools
517:Phillipps died at his home at Upper Kennards,
505:In 1943 Phillipps published his autobiography
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442:in January 1924. The Liberals, who held the
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353:Phillipps finally managed to enter the
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440:first Labour government
294:general elections. In
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249:between 1933 and 1945.
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645:Henry Vivian Phillipps
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174:Phillipps was born in
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370:Member of Parliament
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232:Justice of the Peace
170:Family and education
42:Member of Parliament
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643:Philip Williamson,
325:Political secretary
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70:John Gordon Jameson
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411:Wolverhampton East
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