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prime minister
Liberal Government of Herbert Asquith
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Aim of Social welfare reforms:
improve the lives of the British people
targeted at the old, the young, the sick, the unemployed, and the employed
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State what i am going to talk about.
old,young,Unemployed,Sick,Employed
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State some historians argue a good impact some say bad:
e.g ** Some historians argue that these reforms led to great improvement while others argue that their impact was greatly limited.**
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Background Knowedge
*Moved away from Laissez-faire approach.
* “These reforms were introduced in part due to Germany’s own social welfare reforms which lifted its population to a higher welfare standard than that of Britain.”
* “Another concern of the British Government was that an unhealthy population would be ill-prepared in the event of war.
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First Sentence
“Between 1906-1914, the Liberal Government of Herbert Asquith moved away from the policies of the laissez-fair approach and would introduce a series of social welfare reforms which were designed to improve the lives of the British people.”