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“Assess the reasonsfor and the success of the Liberal Welfare Reforms” (1906-14)
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"Assess the reasons for and the success of the Liberal Welfare Reforms" (1906-14) British politics' History Essay Following the unsuccessful electoral campaigns of 1890s the Liberals gradually began to accept the need for greater state intervention and more social reform. Following the 1906 electoral victory the Liberal party unintentionally set out to install a series of welfare reforms. According to the analysis of J. A. Hobson and L. T. Hobhouse the economic conditions in Britain caused inequality, inefficiency and the rise of radical pressure groups. In response to this 'New Liberalism' neglected the policy of laissez-fair and sought political and electoral co-operation from the Labour and Socialist intellectuals. Subsequently New Liberalism was constructed on the basis of state intervention and a gradual installation of a basic social service system, which increasingly worried the bourgeois section of society. Since George Dangerfield's influential study of the British society under the Liberal government, 'The Strange Death...
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