The significance of new liberalism in giving the Liberal Party its great general election victory in 1906.
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In the following essay I will be talking about the significance of new liberalism in giving the Liberal Party its great general election victory in 1906. I will also be discussing other factors which could have lead to the Liberal Party wining the election. I will be talking about the Conservative Parties' mistakes and whether it played a major role in the Liberals wining the 1906 general election than "New Liberalism" itself. Liberals & the poverty reports Poverty became an important political issue in the early 1900s.A man called Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree and Charles Booth did there own individual study on people in poverty. Mr Rowntree's book, Poverty: a study of town life was read by thousands of people and Charles Booth's book on labouring poor in London were read by hundreds more. The general public were shocked by the findings. Which showed that the victorian ideology that poverty was the fault...

