The Political Tailors Finish:10-pack of Fernwood

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France's Napoleon III (left) met Austria's Francis Joseph at Villafranca and agreed terms for peace which left Venetia in Austrian hands

Lowndes Square

Lord John Russell proposed that neither bill should be accepted

30th April 1976

The Political Tailors Finish:10-pack of Fernwood'The Political Tailors', 1867. Gladstone is slumped against the wall with his hands in his pockets. Meanwhile, Disraeli stitches busily at the Reform Bill, with Lord Derby in the background with a large pair of scissors in his hand. Disraeli was a Christian, but his father was a Spanish Jew. Punch always highlighted Disraeli's Jewish features, but here the journal takes things a step further by depicting him as a Jewish tailor (an occupation that