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| Picture No | 12917241 |
| Date | 1866 |
| Description | Cartoon, The Coming Struggle (Disraeli versus Gladstone) |
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Cartoon, The Coming Struggle -- using the Boat Race as an analogy for politics, Disraeli and Gladstone are depicted as rowers in competing boats, with the radical MP John Bright in a separate boat in the background. Lord John Russell is with Gladstone as the Coxswain of the Government (Liberal) boat. The main issue being debated at the time was electoral reform.
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| Source | Cartoon in ‘Fun’, 24 March 1866 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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