Britain, still recovering from the fallout from the Napoleonic wars, is in the middle of a class war involving the Corn Laws, and a reform movement.

British Prime Minister John Robinson, Lord Goderich, had been an able minister but when it comes to leading he is unsure and the government cannot be run effectively as a number of Tory MPs have stepped in over the past five months to become the unofficial Prime Minister in an effort to help Goderich run the country.

It is reported that when Goderich resigned to George IV, he burst into tears and George IV had to lend Goderich a handkerchief, as he didn't have one.

The venerated Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has, along with Sir Robert Peel, become one of the rising stars of Britain’s Tory party.

He replaces Goderich as Prime Minister in January 1828.

William Lamb, Whig MP for Leominster, becomes second Viscount Melbourne upon the death of his father in 1828 and moves to the House of Lords.

Wellington, as Prime Minister, and Peel, as Home Secretary, although opposed to Catholic emancipation, see that denying O'Connell his seat would cause outrage and could lead to another rebellion or uprising.

Peel and Wellington manage to convince George IV that Catholic emancipation and the right of Catholics and Presbyterians and members of all Christian faiths other than the established Church of Ireland to sit in Parliament needs to be passed.

Parliament, in response to popular Irish agitation led by O’Connell, repeals the Test Acts in 1828, removing most of the Nonconformists’ civil disabilities.