A fascinating insight into a pivotal moment in British political history, this collection of speeches by two of the most famous statesmen of the Victorian era charts the crisis that led to the fall of Lord Derby's government in 1868. With rhetoric that still resonates today, Gladstone and Disraeli make passionate and often scathing appeals to the House of Commons, laying bare the ideological divisions that rocked British society.

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