[3][full citation needed] The Liberals were not well organised nationally in 1924 and no longer had the uniting issue of Free Trade to provide an anti-Conservative focus as they had in 1923.

Garry Tregidga comments that "...except for individuals like Lloyd George [the Liberals] fail[ed] to provide an inspiring programme for office..." However he also identifies Glassey as a local exception to this poor showing, who against the regional and national trends raised the party's share of the vote in a three-cornered contest.

His election addresses concentrated on social issues and drew on Lloyd George's plans to develop the coal and power industries.

[4] This foreshadowed the policy issues the Liberal Party would put forward in the 1929 general election when Glassey fought the seat again, this time beating the sitting Tory MP, Gordon Ralph Hall Caine, albeit by the narrow majority of 277.

[7] In fact Glassey proposed to stand as a candidate without reference to any party in 1931 and he received a message of support from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald before the election.

[8][full citation needed] Glassey said he stood as a National Government candidate endorsing every word in the Prime Minister's manifesto.