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Wednesday, 30th July 2003

The Anti-Corn Law League

Richard Cobden.
Richard Cobden.
By restricting the import of corn, the Corn Laws guaranteed prices for British landowners and thus in years of bad harvest forced the cost of bread beyond the means of the poor.  They were also used by other nations to justify their imposition of duty on cotton.  The Anti-Corn Law League was formed by an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes.  It was led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.  To the general benefit of both city and country the League triumphed - with the unfortunate assistance of the Irish Famine - in 1846.  The people and ideas that rose out of this movement were labelled the Manchester School, where the marketplace trades freely unfettered by national regulation or government interference.

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