Lord Liverpool and the Tories 1815 - 1830 - Discontent

Causes of distress and discontent:

Government policies: CORN LAWS (1815) and Income tax abolised (1816) - Indirect tax for poor
End of the Napoleonic wars
Industrial Revolution - Unemployment Machines replace peoples jobs - Poor conditions
Countryside conditions poor

Examples of distress and discontent:
Spa Fields 1816, Peterloo 1819

Government's response = REPRESSION

• Use of troops e.g. Peterloo 1819 to disperse crowds
• Spies - Oliver
• Suspension of Haebus Corpus - Trials without a Jury
• NO REFORM - Believed in 'Laissez faire'

Overall = Overestimated threat of revolution, no experience or policeforce
Supported the interests of the landowners over working class 

How did the Liberal Tories emerge?

• 1822 death of Castlereah lead to a cabinet re-shuffle
• Liberal Tories formed - Peel, Canning, Husskisson and Robinson
• All more open to reform  

  Peel
  Home secretary
  Reformed Administration for Justice:
  Penal Code reformed - Death penalty removed for over 180 crimes
  Jails Act (1823) - Improved conditions in Goals
  Police Force established 1929 - Keep law and order in streets (1000's paid constables)

  Huskisson
  Introduced free trade measures
  Reduction of import duties
  Relaxation of Navigation Acts
  Modified Corn Laws 1828 - Sliding scale of import duties

  Other important religous reforms:
  Test and coorporations Act - Non Conformists were allowed to be MP's
   (Peel) Catholic Emancipation Act 1829 - Catholics allowed to become MP's 

  CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION BROKE UP THE LIBERAL TORIES