Rise of Labour

Question 1

Lowe rise of labour and liberals

Answer 1

‘the Labour Party had little influence on the Liberal government and seemed to run out of ideas’.

Question 2

Murphy rise of labour and liberals

Answer 2

‘increasingly Labour seemed to exist merely to provide voting fodder for Liberal issues’. Their influence was only occasional.

Question 3

Lee rise of Labour and liberals

Answer 3

the Labour Party had, by 1914, ‘outgrown the Liberal connection but was not yet strong enough to fight the Liberals openly’.

Question 4

Pelling inevitability of rise of labour

Answer 4

the rise of Labour was inevitable. The growth of large industrial cities and the greater concentration of industry, together with the steadily rising cost of living, were gradually turning working classes to Labour.

Question 5

Clarke inevitability of rise of labour

Answer 5

does not agree with the ‘inevitable rise theory’. Claims that, with the coming of New Liberalism, there was still plenty of life left in the Liberals before 1914.

Question 6

Wilson inevitability of rise of labour

Answer 6

WW1 was the main reason for Labour’s growth. It split and discredited the Liberals and therefore, without it, there was no way Labour would have grown to become the main opposition party.

Question 7

Pugh inevitability of rise of labour

Answer 7

believes the ‘inevitable rise’ theory to be the product of hindsight as there was little to suggest that Labour would grow rapidly after the war.