Liberal Landslide of 1906

Liberal Legislation

• PM Henry Campbell Bannerman, 1905-1908

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

• Naval arms race

Votes for Women?

Suffragists

• Millicent Fawcett
• National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 1897

Suffragettes

• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Christabel Pankhurst
• Sylvia Pankhurst
• Women's Social and Political Union 1903

Liberal Government Obstruction

• Violence
• Arson
• Hunger-Strikes & Force Feeding
• Asquith's obstruction
• Cat and Mouse Bill 1913
• Emily Davison and Ascot Races

August 1914 The Great War