In the UK, the national government did play a role in these developments, through providing loans and sharing best practice. But it was not directly involved in efforts to improve the lives of the urban working classes in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.[70] This changed when the New Liberal government that included Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election. They ushered in a new era of centrally organized and funded state activism. Within the space of a few years, the government had established initiatives including old age
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