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Why did social policy questions come to dominate British politics in the decade before the First World War?
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Tony Marsden - Somerville College - PPE BPG Why did social policy questions come to dominate British politics in the decade before the First World War? Toward the end of the Victorian age, Britain underwent rapid reform in many political areas. Disraeli and Gladstone were the notable two who had enacted changes to both domestic and foreign policy and altered British politics irrevocably. In spite of this, there was a perceived decline in traditional industry, agriculture and influence abroad throughout and following the last twenty years of Victoria's life. In 1904, the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration found that Britain's growing urban population was living in increased squalor, and this brought to light a reality that shocked a great many voters and policymakers. At the beginning of the Edwardian period, the political landscape was dominated by matters of social policy and the object of this essay is to determine why...
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