In the 1929 election campaign, Lloyd George, as leader of a Liberal Party reunited after years of dissension and decline, put forward the eye-catching slogan: ‘We can conquer unemployment’.

The slogan was backed by the ‘Yellow Book’ (Britain’s Industrial Future) with its new and distinctive approach to policy based on the ideas of the famous economist John Maynard Keynes. Those economic ideas provoked much debate and controversy within the Liberal Party, both at the time and afterwards. What are the lessons for today?

Speakers: Professor Peter Sloman (Cambridge University), author of The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929 – 1964, and Peter Walker, expert on Keynes and speaker to the Lloyd George Society. Chair: Daisy Cooper MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Treasury spokesperson.

This is a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat’s spring conference in Harrogate. You must be registered for the conference to be able to attend. We are not offering online access, but a recording of the meeting will be available on our website afterwards.