Who were the two front-runners for Conservative leadership in 1911?
Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain
David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill
Herbert Asquith and Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain
Answer
Walter Long and Austen Chamberlain were the two frontrunners for Conservative leadership in 1911. Long was a former Secretary of State for the Colonies and President of the Local Government Board, while Chamberlain was a former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Both men were seen as potential successors to Arthur Balfour, who had resigned as leader of the Conservative Party earlier that year.
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