Cymdeithas Lloyd George

Cabinet meets outside London – Lloyd George connection

• Gary Fuller
• 11 September 2008

When Gordon Brown’s Cabinet met in Birmingham on 8 September it was widely reported that this was for the first time since 1921, when Lloyd George was still prime minister. A report in Tuesday’s Times newspaper has thrown doubt on that claim but contains some interesting background to the 1921 meeting in Inverness, called as Anglo-Irish relations were at an unusually delicate stage.
You can read the Times article by Emily Gosden at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4710863.ece