KEYNES (John Maynard). &
HENDERSON (Hubert D.)
Can Lloyd George Do It? An Examination of the Liberal Pledge.
A spirited affirmation of the practicability of Liberal Party economic policy under the leadership of David Lloyd George, co-authored by the economist Hubert Douglas Henderson (1890-1952), Keynes’s former pupil at Cambridge and collaborator as editor of The Nation and Athenaeum from 1923-1930.
Keynes played a key role in the development of Liberal Party economic policy during the late 1920s, contributing to the famous report of the Liberal Party’s Industrial Inquiry of 1928. The Liberal Party would ultimately make only modest gains in the 1929 general election, a considerable disappointment that would mark Keynes’s final active involvement in an election campaign for the Liberals or indeed any other party.