Why do historians disagree about the liberal governments attack on poverty in the few years before the First World War?
...ounded the welfare state, but only did this so he could gain more votes, especially from the working class. This is very different to the opinions of Hobley, who believed that it was completely up to the state to take responsibility for the poor. This was written in 1965 which was before speed and cross wrote theirs. This affected their opinions because at the time that was what was thought by most people. Although cross, who wrote his source in 1963, two years before, said that Lloyd Gorge and Churchill were responsible for launching the great social programme which was the foundations of the welfare state. They weren’t the only people to praise Churchill for the welfare state, as many people looked up to him because of the war. Hay has a much broader point of view, belie...