Empire Free Trade Crusade candidates had some success.
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The party called for Empire free trade, agricultural protection, and the introduction of duties on food imports.
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He won the Paddington South byelection in 1930 as a candidate for the Empire Free Trade Crusade, retaining it in the 1931 General Election.
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Taylor said the result was a great blow " to those wobblers who, while not opposing [ Empire Free Trade ], are afraid to adopt it ".
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Westminster St . George's saw the Empire Free Trade Crusade party threatening the Conservative position at a time when satisfaction with Baldwin's leadership was at a low.
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An Independent Conservative who supported Empire Free Trade won the St . George's Westminster by-election in March 1931 marked the end of the movement as an electoral force.
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Both press barons had tried to urge specific policies on the Conservative Party : Rothermere opposed Indian home rule, and Beaverbrook pressed for tariff reform under the slogan Empire Free Trade.
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:1 A confused situation, where the victorious Empire Free Trade Crusade candidate was effectively a right-wing unofficial Conservative, who subsequently took the whip and was re-elected as official Conservative candidate.
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However, Lidiard and the Conservative Association tried to forge a compromise by passing a resolution ( 6 October ) which declared that Lidiard realised that only loyalty to the Conservative Party would see Empire Free Trade enacted.
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In February 1931, he contested the Islington East by-election as a candidate for the Empire Free Trade Crusade and the United Empire Party, which both sought to make the British Empire a free trade bloc.
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