1.2 New Liberalism

Question 1

Why was it a safety state rather than a welfare state?

Answer 1

It was a safety state rather than welfare as there was limited state intervention and higher taxation

Question 2

What is the name of the traditional approach (favoured by classical liberalism) that new liberalism replaced?

Answer 2

Laissez-Faire

Question 3

Who was a new intellectual associated with new-liberalism?

Answer 3

• TH Green (liberalism should give people the opportunity to be socially moral)
• L Hobhouse (argued for collectivism - Government should take action in redistribution)
• JA Hobson (though the UK faced underconsumption)

Question 4

Why did new liberalism appeal to those worried about Britain’s place in the world?

Answer 4

New liberalism would promote greater ‘national efficiency’ and would help to resolve the international primacy concerned exposed by the Boer War

Question 5

What political benefit did some Liberals think would arise from new liberalism?

Answer 5

They thought that it would protect the working class vote from the growing labour movement

Question 6

What % of the Liberal MP’s in 1906 elected in 1906 supported Liberalist ideas?

Answer 6

50%