TheCommonwealth Land Party was aStoke basedpolitical party in theUnited Kingdom. It was founded in 1919 byJ. W. Graham Peace andR. L. Outhwaite as theCommonwealth League, and was initially associated with theIndependent Labour Party. It campaigned for the redistribution of land and the abolition of all taxation other thanland rent.[1]
Outhwaite was a former Liberal Member of Parliament who had sat forHanley from 1912 to 1918 and a passionate advocate of the single tax policy. He had some success in persuading Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer,David Lloyd George to adopt aspects of his views into the Liberal Party Land Campaign. However, land reform took a back seat at the outbreak of World War One.
The group renamed itself the "Commonwealth Land Party" in 1923. It had two candidates run in the1931 general election, Arthur Rowland-Entwhistle atBurslem and Graham Peace himself atHanley. Peace died in 1947, after which it was again renamed, as theCommon Land Party.[2] It was ultimately disbanded in 1954[why?].[1]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Position[2] |
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| Burslem | Arthur Rowland-Entwhitle | 401 | 1.1 | 3 |
| Hanley | J. W. Graham Peace | 946 | 2.7 | 3 |
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