the nine authors of the book who were elected MPs, one (Mark Oaten) resigned before the 2010 election, one (Chris Huhne) resigned in 2013 having been in the cabinet, and the remaining seven were all members of the government in 2015. Edward Stourton from the BBC radio show Analysis argued that the Orange Book movement within the Liberal Democrats was important in the founding of the coalition government with the Conservatives. Conservative MP David Davis found a number of "areas of overlap" between Conservative policies and the views of the book authors. Historian and Labour politician Tristram Hunt said that the Orange Book debate was a revival of the debates in liberal circles between the classical liberalism of William Gladstone and politicians like David Lloyd George. Richard Grayson, a member of the Social Liberal Forum, said that such Gladstonian liberalism was replaced in the early 20th century with a commitment to the welfare state because of the work of Thomas Hill Green, Leonard Hobhouse and the economist John A. Hobson; therefore, The Orange Book writers were seeking to overturn nearly a century of Liberal party history. See also Blue Labour Britannia Unchained References External links Liberator 298 The complete September 2004 edition of Liberator, containing three contrasting reviews of the Orange Book written by leading party commentators at the time the book was first published. BBC (2008): Clegg's orange revolution 2004 non-fiction books 2004 in the United Kingdom Books about liberalism Books about politics of the United Kingdom Economic liberalism Liberal Democrats (UK) publications Political party factions in the United Kingdom