... with the maintenance of Edwardian society than its radical overhaul is to regard the reforms passed as acts of the government clutching at straws because they wanted to grant just enough change to head off the Socialists and keep the old way of society in place and to maintain electoral popularity, rather than acts of genuine sincerity towards welfare change. It will be argued that the new merged Labour party was laying down pressure thus became a major reason that the Liberals had to try and . head off socialist advance The difficulties in the question is that there are many views as to why the reforms were passed and some reforms did reach extremely far reaching measures, making it easy to understand why one would come to the opinion that the acts passed were those of radical sincerity. Other problems are that when researching reform bills passed there have only ...

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