He managed to put sterling on the gold standard two years earlier than planned.
Industrialists complained that full employment had been sacrificed to sound money.
Thomas Attwood claimed 'Peels Act' created 'more misery, more poverty, more discord, more of everything that was calamitous to the nation, except death, than Attila caused in the Roman Empire'.
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