 The King said he would not be willing to do so unless Asquith obtained a clear mandate for such sweeping change by winning a second general election.The Lords voted this 1910 Bill down.Edward VII had died in May 1910, but his son George V agreed to grant Asquith a second general election in December 1910 (this also resulted in a minority government), and at the time he agreed that, if necessary, he would create hundreds of new Liberal peers to neutralise the Conservative majority in the Lords.