Would
Gladstone even be regarded as a liberal today? He certainly became more liberal
the older he got (his views moving in the opposite direction to how most
people's change), but I think a lot of his views would put him in UKIP today or
at least on the right of the Conservative Party. Perhaps it is unfair to take
him out of his historical context and judge him by contemporary standards; but
if he was a liberal, then he seems like a very conservative one - as opposed to
a radical liberal, such as John Stuart Mill.
Nathan North studied Philosophy at London University and is currently a journalist in Poland.
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