Given that I'm assuming the movie is set in 1890, and Gladstone was in opposition at the time…I'm not sure. He was big on Home Rule for Ireland, as well as anti-colonialist to some extent and anti-demagoguery, so I guess we can read into that what we want to see. I think in one way it also signals (though not like we didn't realize it already) that movie Holmes is a bit more clued in to politics than he likes to pretend in the book canon.
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Given that I'm assuming the movie is set in 1890, and Gladstone was in opposition at the time…I'm not sure. He was big on Home Rule for Ireland, as well as anti-colonialist to some extent and anti-demagoguery, so I guess we can read into that what we want to see. I think in one way it also signals (though not like we didn't realize it already) that movie Holmes is a bit more clued in to politics than he likes to pretend in the book canon.