Domestic policy Flashcards
What does Bently say about Gladstone first ministry domestic policy
‘one of the most energetic and prolific administrations of the 19th-century’
What does Feuchtwanger say about Gladstone’s ministry domestic policy
‘Gladstonian liberalism can be defined largely in terms of the reforms accomplished in this period’
What do Pearce and Stearn say about Gladstone first ministry domestic policy
The virtual elimination of electoral intimidation and corruption
What does Jenkins say about Gladstone’s first ministry domestic policy
He was ‘concerned only with meritocracy within the existing elite rather than more genuine equality of opportunity’
What did Disraeli say in 1872 about Gladstone first ministry domestic policy
‘A row of exhausted volcanoes’
What does Walton say about Disraeli’s employers and workmen act
It ‘settle the position of labour for generation’ (Blake) until the judges began to reinterpret them systematically in the employer favour.
What does MacDonald say about Disraeli second Ministry domestic policy
‘the Conservatives have done more for the working classes in six years than the Liberals have done in 50’
What does Smith say about Disraeli’s second ministry domestic policy
‘piecemeal’
What does Churchill say about Gladstone second ministry domestic policy
‘few periods of office have began with higher hopes; none had been more disappointing in their outcome’
What does Watts say about that same second ministry domestic policy
the changes in this ministry were ‘small-scale and useful rather than far reaching in their effects’
Lowe Salisbury Second Ministry domestic policy
‘the Conservatives reforms were few in number for a government which lasted six years’
Fortune Salisbury second ministry reforms
More sympathetic to the needs of ordinary people than had been expected but but the government ignored the growing gap between wealth of the upper middle classes and the poverty of many working families.
Morrison liberal social reforms
‘very limited in scope and failed to deal with … issues such as education and housing’
Grimond liberal social reforms
The reforms so advanced that they established all the necessary basic principles and as good as created the welfare state
