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« http://www.victorianweb.org/ I) Liberal government (1906-1914) : Liberal The Liberal welfare reforms (1906–1914) were a series of acts of social legislation passed by the British Liberal Party after the 1906 General Election.

They represent the emergence of the modern welfare (=bien être, aide sociale) state in Great Britain.

In 1906 to 1914 the Liberal Government (« laissez faire ») passed reforms to help reduce poverty. Legislation included the introduction of old age pensions, free school meals, National Insurance and labour exchanges.

- Herbert Henry Asquith was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

He was the last prime minister to lead a majority Liberal government, and he played a central role in the design and passage of major liberal legislation and a reduction of the power of the House of Lords.

Lloyd George replaced him as Prime Minister in December 1916.

They became bitter enemies and fought for control of the fast-declining Liberal Party. - D.

Lloyd George was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician.

He was the final Liberal to serve as Prime Minister (1916-1922) of the United Kingdom.

Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state .

He became the leader of the Liberal Party in the late 1920s, but it grew even smaller and more divided.

By the 1930s he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure.

He guided Britain to victory in World War One and presided over the legislation that gave women the vote in 1918 - W.

Churchill : When Asquith succeeded Campbell-Bannerman in 1908, Churchill was promoted to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade.

Churchill worked with Liberal politician David Lloyd George to champion social reform.

To ensure funding for these social reforms, he and Lloyd George denounced Reginald McKennas' expansion of warship production.

In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, and was subsequently Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Interwar period (1918-1949) → the end of the First World War ( 1918 ) and the beginning of the Second World War ( 1939 ) .

For the UK it was a period of peace and relative economic stagnation.

In politics the Liberal Party collapsed and the Labour Party became the main challenger to the dominant Conservative Party throughout the period.

The Great Depression impacted Britain less severely economically and politically than other major nations, although there were severe pockets of long-term unemployment and hardship, especially in mining districts and in Scotland and North West England.

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