Ideologies / Labour Liberal / David Lloyd George
§ The minds · 1863–1945 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister
David Lloyd George
The People's Budget
Welfare wrung from the Lords.
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The Welsh radical whose 1909 'People's Budget' and National Insurance Act laid the foundations of British social welfare — labour-liberalism at its most consequential.
social
Progressive on poverty, land and social insurance.
economic
Taxed wealth to fund pensions and insurance — the new liberal welfare state.
governance
A radical reformer working entirely through Parliament.
Notable for
- The People's Budget (1909)
- National Insurance Act
- Wartime prime minister
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