Liberal Party (UK)

This article is about the historic Liberal Party. For the new Liberal Party formed by those opposing the 1988 merger with the SDP, see Liberal Party (UK, 1989). The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats.
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This article refers to the British political party. For similarly named parties in other countries, see Liberal Democratic Party. The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the short-lived Social Democratic Party; the two parties had already been in an alliance for some years prior to this.
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