key figures

Question 1

sir henry campbell bannerman

Answer 1

leader of lib party 1898-1908
liberal prime minister 1905-1908
illness forced him to retire in 1908

reforms: free school meals and medical inspections for school children

Question 2

asquith

Answer 2

prime minister from 1908-1914
replaced by david lloyd george in early 1916

reforms: new liberalism, worked on old age pension

Question 3

david lloyd george

Answer 3

liberal mp 1908
president of board of trade 1906
chancellor of the exchequer 1908

reforms: introduced old age pensions act, national insurance scheme for health

Question 4

winston churchill

Answer 4

originally conservative mp 1900s
liberal 1904
liberal board of trade 1908-10
home secretary 1910
conservative chancellor of the exchequer 1925
prime minister 1940-45 and 1951-5

reforms: key role in trade boards act, labour exchanges

Question 5

ramsay mcdonald

Answer 5

one of the founders of the labour party
secretary of the labour party before the great war
leader of party in 1911
resigned in1914 but back as leader in 1922
first labour prime minister in 1924

reforms: negotioated lib-lab pact in 1903