'For God's sake, go!'

I’m quite sure of the basic facts, but time and age have dimmed my memory of the exact details. Nevertheless, the basic facts are these. Perhaps 150 years ago, a leader within the English government in London (probably the elected Prime Minister of that time) had brought the county to the brink of disaster due to wrong and irrational decisions he had made. Unfortunately, he could not accept his own shortcomings, on the fact that he was a major part of the problem and not of the solution. Finally, a leading member of the Prime Minister’s own party had the moral courage to stand before Parliamen...