#GE1923 & #GE1929 both resulted in #LibLabPact, #GE2010 by #ConDemCoalition #GE2017 followed by #ConsParty pact with #DUP.

Informal coalition of #Liberals, #LabourParty & #IrishNationalists emerged in 1911, #ConsParty entered gov in 1914, in 1915 #HerbertAsquith was replaced by #DavidLloydGeorge.

The British #SouthAfricaAct, passed #ThisDayInHistory in 1909, created the legal foundation for #apartheid by limiting the franchise & parliament to white men. #Liberal PM #HerbertAsquith backed it, as did #Tory leader #ArthurBalfour, who made #WhiteSupremacist arguments for it.