The corn laws were NOT temporary, they were abolished completely in 1846 and never came back. Please tell me were Trevelyan supported the return of the corn laws. Given his ideological inclinations, it is highly unlikely he supported this. The only people who supported them tended to be Tory landed gentry and yeoman farmers who had a vested interest in keeping food prices artificially high. Whigs like Trevelyan were fundamentally ideologically opposed to the tarriffs.....
They were abolished in 1846 - but the dismantling was gradual and not instantaneous.
Please tell me were Trevelyan supported the return of the corn laws.
His comments about his worry that an even broader market for grain would damage domestic producers tells us that he was sorry to see the Corn Laws go and did not want to rush their passing.
Given his ideological inclinations, it is highly unlikely he supported this. The only people who supported them tended to be Tory landed gentry and yeoman farmers who had a vested interest in keeping food prices artificially high. Whigs like Trevelyan were fundamentally ideologically opposed to the tarriffs.....
Trevelyan was born to a noble family. His grandfather was a baronet and a landowner. Both Tories and Whigs had large landowners in their ranks and the controversy over the Corn laws was not split strictly across partisan lines - probably because British parties had not yet hardened into ideological camps, but were more like clubs connected by patrons and marriage.
Trevelyan's "ideological inclinations" were for the preservation of the British Empire and the Protestant Ascendancy.
Those were the principles taht dictated his economic policies.