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If the Franchise Bill was Gladstone’s zenith during his second administration, his handling of Egypt, the Sudan and Gordon was his low point and contributed to the collapse of his government. On this problem he was out of humour with the spirit of the age, with the ‘evils of jingoism’ as he often put it. He could scarcely bring himself to give the affairs of Egypt and the Sudan the attention they deserved and the capriciousness and self-deception of old age got the better of him at times. In politics the intermittent application of determined ideas often obtains the worst of all possible worlds and this was Gladstone’s predicament.
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Quoted in A. Jones, The Politics of Reform 1884, Cambridge University Press, 1972, p. 51, n. 4
A. B. Cooke and John Vincent, The Governing Passion. Cabinet Government and Party Politics in Britain 1885–86, Harvester Press, Brighton, 1974, pp. 25–30 and 173–89
A. B. Cooke and J. R. Vincent, eds., Lord Carlingford’s Journals: Reflections of a Cabinet Minister, 1885, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 134
T. P. O’Connor, Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian, Benn, 1929, vol. II, pp. 43–4
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Feuchtwanger, E.J. (1989). Home Rule 1885–6. In: Gladstone. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19783-5_11
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