United Kingdom general election, 1923

The failure of the Liberal-Labour coalition gave opportunity for the Conservatives to recast themselves as the party of stability and order. The Conservative leadership focused their propaganda efforts on anti-communism, claiming that the Labour Party was "receiving orders from Moscow and Berlin." They recognised the trend of Labour as the ascendant, new party, while the Liberals fractured and appeared to begin going into decline.
== Results ==
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319 	134 	128 	28	4
Conservative	Labour	Liberal	CL	O
 The Conservatives, having achieved a majority in the Commons, formed a government under Austen Chamberlain, who had taken over as Conservative leader after Bonar Law stepped down due to health issues. Although Lloyd George's Coalition Liberals proposed joining the government, Chamberlain rebuffed them, seeing their support as unnecessary. Shortly after forming a government, the Conservatives began to pursue a protectionist tariff policy, which led the rival Liberal factions to reunite under Asquith's leadership in the name of free trade.
This returned the Liberals to the position of second-largest party in the Commons. They began to devote more resources towards propaganda, promoting themselves as the party of progress in the place of "socialist" Labour, and adopted more progressive policies that approached Labour's social-democratic programme at times.
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