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Lord Sidmouth: He is the Home Secretary who is depicted as someone who ran something akin to the Gestapo, controlling a network of spies and others who were eager to stamp out any possible agitation for rebellion or reform. He even uses the event of a potato thrown at the Prince Regent as an excuse to say that there was an assassination attempt against the Prince, justifying greater oppression of rights.<ref>For more on Lord Sidmouth and his role in Peterloo, see: Walmsley, R., 1969. <i>Peterloo: the case reopened</i>. Manchester U.P, Manchester, pg. 268</ref>
Prince Regent (George IV): An overweight spoiled man who effectively became the monarch of Great Britain as his ailing father (George III) increasingly went mad in the 1810s. He is shown as a humorous but an uncaring figure. Ultimately, he was more interested in women and socializing drinking then government, with most of the governing tasks given to Lord Liverpool.<ref>For more on the Prince Regent, see: Hibbert, C., Hibbert, C., 2007. <i>George IV: the rebel who would be king</i>. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.</ref>
Lord Liverpool: The Prime Minister who ruled during the end of the Napoleonic wars and who had to oversee the rise of discontent after the wars. He was not known for having a great imagination, particularly in dealing with ills in society after the war. While Lord Liverpool was known for banning the slave trade and emancipating Catholics, who were repressed in England, he showed ignorance to other problems. He presided over an increasingly austere government towards the working poor, that feared them more than anything, limiting their collective power to strike and gather.<ref>For more on Lord Liverpool, see: Hay, W.A., 2018. <i>Lord Liverpool: a political life</i>. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge.</ref>
