Save the date! Lloyd George Society and Liberal Democrat History Group meeting with Damian Collins and Paul Spackman
When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Herbert H. Asquith was Prime Minister. On 6 December 1916, Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister, leading a wartime coalition that included the Conservative Party.
Lloyd George’s ascendancy (via stints as the Minister of Munitions and the Secretary of State for War) is just as controversial now as it was in 1916. Ultimately, it created a schism within the Liberal Party, pitching the Lloyd George group against the Asquith loyalists, from which the party would never recover.
Yet, under Lloyd George, Britain had a leader who was able to steer the country towards victory – emerging as ‘The Man Who Won the War’.
Join Damian Collins OBE (Former MP and author of Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government) and Paul Spackman (Author of David Lloyd George: Welsh Radical, World Statesman), as they discuss Lloyd George’s wartime record.
This meeting is jointly hosted by the Liberal Democrat History Group and the Lloyd George Society.
It will begin immediately after the Liberal Democrat History Group AGM, which will start at 18:00. The meeting will be available online via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. Registrations will open in January.
For those attending in person, there is no need to register; and please be aware that the National Liberal Club has a dress code – available here.
January 25, 2027 18:00
National Liberal Club
1 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE
