Radicals | |
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Historical leaders | |
Founded | 1750s |
Dissolved | 1859 |
Preceded by | Country Party Levellers Radical Whigs |
Merged into | Liberal Party |
Newspaper | |
Grassroots wing | Hampden Clubs |
Ideology | Radicalism Factions: Pro-American Revolution Jacobinism (1790–1804) Chartism (1838–1859) Utilitarianism |
Political position | Left-wing[1][2] |
Colours | Red |
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The Radicals were a loose parliamentary political grouping in Great Britain and Ireland in the early to mid-19th century who drew on earlier ideas of radicalism and helped to transform the Whigs into the Liberal Party.
British politics of the first half of the nineteenth century was an ideological spectrum, with the Tories, or Conservative Party, on the right, the Whigs as liberal-centrists, and the radicals on the left.