... to attempt in this essay. Starting off with where his political career begins, I am going to try and explain his movement to the group known as the Peelites, and then explain his reasoning, according to various historians as to why he eventually ended up with the Liberals. So, as a beginning, we must look at why he was originally a devout Conservative. Paul Adelman says, "as a young MP he opposed practically every reform introduced by the Whig government," so its obvious that he believed in what he was supporting, but what we must ask is, 'why'? Adelman points out that Gladstone himself said, "I was brought up to dislike and distrust liberty," something clearly significant in his life as he was heavily influenced by his father's beliefs from a young age. On the other hand, other historians seems to think that it was more his education that made him ...

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