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David Lloyd George was the key leader of the 'New Liberals' who passed welfare legislation. The Liberal welfare reforms (1906–1914) were a series of acts of social legislation passed by the Liberal Party after the 1906 general election.
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor [a] (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War, for social-reform policies, for his role in the Paris Peace Conference, and for negotiating the establishment of the Irish Free State.
The Liberal government was supported by 29 Labour Party MPs.Chancellor David Lloyd George crafted the People's Budget and introduced a great deal of social legislation, [3] such as old age pensions and unemployment insurance for a significant part of the working population.
The welfare state in Britain : a political history since 1945 (1993) online; Jones, Margaret, and Rodney Lowe, eds. From Beveridge to Blair: the first fifty years of Britain's welfare state 1948–98 (Manchester UP, 2002). online; Laybourn Keith. The Evolution of British Social Policy and the Welfare State, c. 1800–1993 (Keele University ...
Lloyd George followed the example of Germany, which under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had provided compulsory national insurance against sickness from 1884. After visiting Germany in 1908, Lloyd George said in his 1909 Budget speech that Britain should aim to be "putting ourselves in this field on a level with Germany; we should not emulate them only in armaments."
David Lloyd George (left) and Winston Churchill in 1907 After a confused performance in 1906–1907 with few results, H. H. Asquith became prime minister in 1908 and shifted emphasis to new reform issues promoted by David Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Winston Churchill at the Board of Trade and as Home Secretary .
The Budget was introduced in the British Parliament by David Lloyd George on 29 April 1909. [3] Lloyd George argued that the People's Budget would eliminate poverty, and commended it thus: This is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness.
The Old Age Pensions Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7.c. 40) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in 1908.The act is one of the foundations of modern social welfare in both the present-day United Kingdom and the Irish Republic and forms part of the wider social welfare reforms of the Liberal government of 1906–1914.