In the November 1922 general election in the two-member seat of Dundee, Winston Churchill, Liberal member of Parliament for the city since 1908, lost his seat to Edwin Scrymgeour (Prohibitionist) and E. D. Morel (Labour). Before 1914, Morel, like Churchill, had been a member of the Liberal Party, and this article compares the political trajectory of Churchill and Morel across the war period in order to understand how their positions had diverged. While still a Liberal in party affiliation in 1922, Churchill was en route back to the Conservative Party, while Morel had become a prominent figure in the Labour Party. In examining this divergence, the aim is to shed light on one of the key issues of British politics in early twentieth-century Britain: the divisions in the Liberal party that undermined its place as one of the two leading political parties. The purpose is not to displace arguments about long-run socioeconomic change undermining the Liberals, nor of the severe impact of total war on Liberal thinking about the scope of state action; rather, it is to use this example to also stress the significance for the party of sharp divergences over war and peace, and more broadly, the conduct of foreign policy.

1922 年 11 月，在邓迪的两名议员席位举行的大选中，自 1908 年以来担任该市议会自由党议员的温斯顿·丘吉尔 (Winston Churchill) 将席位输给了埃德温·斯克里姆杰 (Edwin Scrymgeour)（禁酒主义者）和埃德·莫雷尔（ED Morel）（工党）。1914 年之前，莫雷尔和丘吉尔一样都是自由党成员，本文比较了丘吉尔和莫雷尔在整个战争时期的政治轨迹，以了解他们的立场是如何分歧的。1922 年，丘吉尔仍属于自由党，但他已重返保守党，而莫雷尔已成为工党的重要人物。在研究这种分歧时，目的是揭示二十世纪初英国政治的关键问题之一：自由党内部的分歧削弱了其作为两个主要政党之一的地位。目的不是要取代有关长期社会经济变革会削弱自由党的论点，也不是要取代关于全面战争对自由党关于国家行动范围的思考的严重影响的论点；相反，它是用这个例子来强调该党在战争与和平以及更广泛的外交政策实施方面的巨大分歧的重要性。