Adrian Lee: How a popular Prime Minister did more than anyone to destroy his own legacy

Adrian Lee: How a popular Prime Minister did more than anyone to destroy his own legacy

Adrian Lee is a solicitor-advocate in London, specialising in criminal defence, and was twice a Conservative parliamentary candidate. Few British political careers have had more ups and downs than that of David Lloyd George. Bursting onto the national scene as a 27-year-old rural solicitor on 10th April 1890 at the Caernarfon Boroughs constituency by-election, Lloyd George’s victory at the polls (taking the seat from the Conservatives) signalled…