The Relugas Compact was the name given to the political plot hatched between H. H. Asquith, Sir Edward Grey and R B Haldane to remove Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman from the leadership of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1905.
Read more about The Relugas Compact: Why Relugas?, Political Background, Liberal Imperialists and The Liberal League, Policy or Personal Ambition?, Lord Rosebery, The Failure of Grey’s Ultimatum, The Relugas Plotters Cave In, Conclusion
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“The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)