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At the first Liberal assembly which Mr. Grimond addressed as leader, in the autumn of 1957, he asserted that the party had passed the point of no return:
“In the next ten years, it is a question of get on or get out. Let us make it get on.”
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Jo Grimond, ‘ The Liberals and the Government’, Guardian, September, 20th, 1965.
Much the best account of Liberal thinking at this time is to be found in Alan Watkins, ‘Mr. Grimond Spells It Out’, Spectator, September 24th, 1965. The writer stressed how little Mr. Grimond’s views changed. He also pointed out that Mr. Grimond was prepared to see the Liberals merging with the Labour party; many of his colleagues were interested only in replacing Labour.
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Butler, D.E., King, A. (1966). The Liberal Predicament. In: The British General Election of 1966. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00548-2_4
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