On 19 October 1922, David Lloyd George’s Coalition government fell from office, bringing to an end four years of post-war co-operation between the Conservative Party and his Coalition Liberals. It was a remarkable turnaround in fortunes, as the post-war Coalition had won the 1918 General Election with a notional majority of 333. Over the intervening four years, there had been attempts to make the temporary coalition arrangement a permanent feature of British politics. However, in the final years of the Coalition, the Conservatives became increasingly disenchanted with government policy and with the personality of the Prime Minister. Nevertheless, some Tories fought for the continuation of the Coalition to the bitter end, and one of those politicians was the leader of the Liverpool Conservative Party, Sir Archibald Salvidge. Although Lloyd George’s Coalition government has been extensively examined by historians, the pivotal role that Salvidge played during these years has been overlooked. This article, therefore, provides the first contemporary examination of Salvidge’s efforts to make the Coalition agreement permanent, often against the wishes of both his own party’s rank-and-file and his supporters in Liverpool.

1922 年 10 月 19 日，戴维·劳合·乔治的联合政府下台，结束了保守党与他的联合自由党之间长达四年的战后合作。这是命运的重大转折，因为战后联盟党以 333 票的名义多数赢得了 1918 年大选。在此期间的四年里，有人试图使临时联盟安排成为英国政治的永久特征。然而，在联合政府的最后几年，保守党对政府政策和总理的个性越来越失望。然而，一些托利党人为联盟的延续而斗争到最后一刻，其中一位政客是利物浦保守党领袖阿奇博尔德萨尔维奇爵士。尽管历史学家对劳合乔治的联合政府进行了广泛的研究，但萨尔维奇在这些年中发挥的关键作用却被忽视了。因此，本文首次对萨尔维奇为使联盟协议永久化所做的努力进行了当代考察，而这往往违背了他所在政党的普通民众和他在利物浦的支持者的意愿。