Anti-Waste League

Anti-Waste League

The Anti-Waste League was a political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1921 by Lord Rothermere. The party campaigned against what they saw as excessive government spending. In reaction, the Conservatives launched a committee, led by Eric Geddes, with the aim of cutting spending, and eventually acted on many of its recommendations.

The party stood in a number of by-elections, taking an increasingly anti-communist line. James Malcolm Monteith Erskine was elected as a joint nominee with an unofficial Conservative Association in the Westminster St George's by-election, 1921, and Murray Sueter was elected in a joint candidacy with the Independent Parliamentary Group in the Hertford by-election, 1921.

The League was disbanded in 1922 in the face of a group of Conservatives moving to the right and sponsoring independent candidates.


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