in politics, while the New - like most Anglicans - generally supported Conservatives. In the late 19th century, the New Dissenters mostly switched to the Liberal Party. The result was a merging of the two groups, strengthening their great weight as a political pressure group. They joined together on new issues especially regarding schools and temperance, with the latter of special interest to Methodists.

By 1914 the linkage was weakening and by the 1920s it was virtually dead.

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