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The period 1895- 1918 saw the a complete turnaround within government, with each making various changes to the country they governed as a whole, as well as developing different relations with the individual inhabitants. Here I will examine in what contexts these changes in relations occurred, and just how significant and long lasting these changes were.
In the 1895 election, the Conservatives seized power from the Liberals for the first time in many years. ... Their policy was very Laissez Faire, sitting still and allowing the country to run itself, and they stood back out of people’s lives, and subsequently no change in their relationship with the people occurred.
It was only in 1905, when the liberals reclaimed power that any significant changes began to occur. ... The New Liberals saw the best way to improve national efficiency was to deal with the cause of workers inefficiency, which was highlighted by intellectuals, for example Rowntree, to be poverty. Subsequently the Liberal reforms first began being passed in 1905, and this was the first step to a change in the amount the government intervened in the individual’s affairs. ... It was on Lloyd George’s insistence that it was did the government ‘did something that appealed straight to the people’. ...
As a whole, the working classes were unimpressed by these reforms, viewing any government intervention as meddling, patronising, and seen as a method to keep them I their place.
Approximate Word count = 1147
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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