England Objects to the Treaty of Versailles, June 1, 1919

Journal of Liberal History

On This Day

04 May 2000

Sandra Gidley seizes the Hampsire seat of Romsey from the Conservatives

The win for the Liberal Democrats represented the only by-election gain for any party during the 1997-2001 parliament. Following a hardline Conservative campaign focused on asylum and law and order, new Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy ascribed the party’s success and its 21% vote increase, to ‘a victory of the politics of hope over the politics of fear’.