Gladstonian financial rectitude had a partial lasting impact on British politics and the historian John Vincent contends that under Lord Salisbury's premiership he "left Britain's low tax, low cost, low growth economy, with its Gladstonian finance and its free trade dogmas, and no conscript army, exactly as he had found it...Salisbury reigned, but Gladstone ruled".
Prinsip keuangan Gladstone memiliki dampak parsial yang berlangsung lama terhadap politik Britania dan sejarawan John Vincent berpendapat bahwa di bawah kepemimpinan perdana menteri Lord Salisbury, dia "mempertahankan pajak rendah, biaya rendah, dan pertumbuhan ekonomi rendah Britania, dengan prinsip keuangan Gladstone dan dogma-dogma perdagangan bebasnya, dan tidak ada tentara wajib militer, persis seperti yang dia temukan...Salisbury memerintah, namun Gladstone yang memutuskan."