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Critical Book Review - The Strange Death of Liberal England Dangerfield, G. (1966)
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Critical Book Review The Strange Death of Liberal England Dangerfield, G. (1966) The Liberal Party came to power in 1906, and was arguably the most talented ever assembled, names such as Asquith, Lloyd George, Churchill and Lord Grey aimed to modernise the structure of British society. It was rather disheartening for the Liberals to find that almost all of the Acts they tried to bring through Parliament were quashed by a rather heavily Conservative influenced House of Lords, unable to gain any satisfaction they threatened to saturate the House of Lords with Liberal peers until the battle was won. By 1912 the welfare state was in existence due to the National Insurance Contributions System, and the 'People's Budget' with its wealth taxation was to fund this system. A coalition was forced during the time of the First World War, and after the Liberals were never quite the same party again. A major landslide pursued...
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