To what extent were government reforms and the acceptance of new roles and responsibilities for government a result of the changes to the electorate 1867-1894?

... (key Q1) To what extent were government reforms and the acceptance of new roles and responsibilities for government a result of the changes to the electorate 1867-1894? In 1867 Disraeli's Conservative government passed a second Reform Act, which led to enfranchisement of over a million more people and as a result between the years 1867-1894, there were significant changes to the electorate, as MPs now had to re-brand themselves. During these years a large number of government reforms took place, including the acceptance of new roles and responsibilities for the government. The two politicians Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone dominated the seventh and eighth decades of the nineteenth century and they both came with the huge amounts of publicity and fame that accompanied politics in the early age of the common man. However, a basic contrast did occur between the two men. Disraeli was a man of Conservatism and Tory Democracy

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