abstract:The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain, the party formed a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule.
The referendum committee organising the vote is made up of the Dialectic Society, Politics Society, Labour Club, Scottish Nationalist Association, Liberal Democrats, International Socialist Group, Conservative and UnionistParty and the Feminist Society.
So he simply appointed three trusted public personalities to head a far-left Progressive UnionistParty, a Socialist Labour Party and a centrist LiberalParty.