Do You Agree with the View That the Conservative Party Was Generally Opposed to Women Suffrage?

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Do you agree with the view that the conservative party was generally opposed to women suffrage? I do agree with the statement that the conservative party was generally opposed to the woman suffrage as the leaders of the party disagreed with votes for women and they opposed the liberal governments vote for women’s votes. Source 14 also suggests that the conservative party opposed the women’s suffrage as it states “…generally opposed...” This shows that the conservative party was opposed to the women’s suffrage, mainly due to the fact that they didn’t want to change their ethos, as this would of meant having to go about a new situation; when everything was going well already/ working out in the correct foreseeable manner. Source 15 also agrees with source 14 as it states “Arthur Balfour …not committed”, this shows that the conservative leaders were generally opposed to women’s suffrage. This also confirms with my knowledge in the fact that the conservative leaders were opposed to the women suffrage due to the fact that it would have meant them having to change their ethos, conservative never mentioned allowing women the right to vote in their manifestos. They did not mention this in their manifestos as this would of have meant that they would of lost out on votes for them to become the main party in government, and therefore did not really mention women’s suffrage, but they did oppose it. The leaders did not really mention women’s suffrage because of the fact the backbenchers would of have really opposed their leaders and therefore the party would of have become split and therefore not a strong party. Not only this but the leaders did not mention the women’s suffrage because the house of lords opposed it, meaning that the conservative party would of have been looked down on rather then looked up on by the house of lords if they had mentioned / forwarded the
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