During the political crisis of autumn 1922, Chaplin, along with other "Die Hards", was opposed to the Conservatives remaining in the coalition government headed by David Lloyd George. On 19 October, he tried to attend the Carlton Club meeting of Conservative MPs that decided to end the coalition but he was refused admittance because he was a peer. Five days later he wrote to a leading supporter of the coalition, Austen Chamberlain: "What did you was the Coalition!! From many letters I received I was almost sure it would be fatal. Far and away the greatest man in my time was Disraeli and he stated...“England loves not Coalitions”."