Liberal Landslide of 1906
Liberal Legislation
1906
- New Education Act (Lords Veto)
- Trades Disputes Bill
- End Plural Voting (Lords Veto)
- Free Meals for Schoolchildren
1907
- Land Reform Bill (Lords Veto)
Herbert
Asquith PM 1908
David
Lloyd George
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
1908
- Old Age Pensions
- No Lords Veto on Budget
1909 Budget (Lloyd George
budget)
- Labor Exchanges for Unemployed
- Income Tax
- Death Duties
- Supertax
- Capital Gains on Land (H. George)
- Lords voted down the budget
1910
General Elections
1910 Parliament
Bill
- Financial matters in Commons
- Two year limit in Lords' veto
- Elections every five years
Home Rule
George
V
Parliament Bill again
Lords Veto
The Die Hards
Parliament Act of 1911
- Ended Lords veto
- Paved way for Home Rule
- 1909 Budget largely forgotten
Liberal achievements
- Old Age Pensions
- 1911 Parliament Act
- 1911 National Insurance Act
- 1912 Home Rule Bill
Losing Control: 1912-1914
Home Rule
- Protestant resistance in Ireland
- Threat of Civil War
Labor Disputes
- Syndicalism
- Threat of General Strike
Germany
Votes for Women?
Suffragists
- Millicent Fawcett
- National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
1897
Suffragettes
Liberal Government Obstruction
August 1914 The Great War