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To What Extent did the Liberal Party’s Reforms After 1906 Succeed in Addressing Britain’s Social Problems?
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To What Extent did the Liberal Party's Reforms After 1906 Succeed in Addressing Britain's Social Problems? In 1906, the liberal party's general election manifesto spoke of the previous conservatives government's "failure to deal in a serious spirit with the social questions of which so much was heard at the general election of 1895" (liberal manifesto 1906 at www.politicalstuff.co.uk) . This essay will attempt to answer the question of whether the liberal's were successful in dealing with the social problems of the time, which the conservatives were deemed to have neglected. In order to effectively answer this question, first one must realise exactly what were the social problems in early Edwardian Britain:- It can be said that there was no single massive problem; more a number of smaller interrelated problems, for example unemployment, poor health and an outdated system of relief. These problems were deemed so serious that they were thought to be...
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