In the second part of David’s conversation with historian Robert Saunders about the impact of the Bulgarian crisis of 1876 on the course of British politics, they discuss how Gladstone used the controversy to plot his way back to power. What made his campaign in the Midlothian constituency a watershed in the history of parliamentary democracy? How did he overcome Queen Victoria’s resistance to return to the premiership? What was the legacy of his rivalry with Disraeli? And what are the parallels with Andy Burnham’s path to the prime ministership and his possible rivalry with Kemi Badenoch today?

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