 After the "khaki election" of October 1900, the Conservative Party remained in power, but instituted a thorough reorganisation of the government.The War Office was now led by St. John Brodrick, who immediately called for extensive reform.In the debate on the Army Estimates on 8 March 1901, he dismissed a two-corps expeditionary force as insufficient, and suggested that "...besides Home Defence we ought to be ready at any moment to send abroad three Army Corps with the proper Cavalry Division ... 120,000 men".