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a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state
After 1922 he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure
Lloyd George is best known as the highly energetic Prime Minister who guided the Empire through the First World War
He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the Great War
a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state
After 1922 he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure
Lloyd George is best known as the highly energetic Prime Minister who guided the Empire through the First World War
He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the Great War
He is also so far the only British Prime Minister to have spoken English as a second language
He was voted the third greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a poll of 139 academics organised by MORI, and in 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote
As the war progressed, he moved his attack to its conduct by the generals, who, he said (basing his words on reports by William Burdett-Coutts in The Times), were not providing for the sick or wounded soldiers and were starving Boer women and children in concentration camps. He reserved his major thrusts for Chamberlain, accusing him of war profiteering through the Chamberlain family company Kynoch Ltd
Lloyd George told journalist Roy W. Howard in late September that “the fight must be to a finish – to a knockout”, a rejection of President Wilson’s offer to mediate
A "Punch" cartoon of the time showed him as "The New Conductor" conducting the orchestra in the "Opening of the 1917 Overture"
Lloyd George had a considerable reputation as a womaniser, which led to his being nicknamed "the Goat"
Kitchener is said to have remarked early in World War One that he tried to avoid sharing military secrets with the Cabinet, as they would all tell their wives, apart from Lloyd George "who would tell someone else's wife"
A "Punch" cartoon of the time showed him as "The New Conductor" conducting the orchestra in the "Opening of the 1917 Overture"
Lloyd George had a considerable reputation as a womaniser, which led to his being nicknamed "the Goat"
Kitchener is said to have remarked early in World War One that he tried to avoid sharing military secrets with the Cabinet, as they would all tell their wives, apart from Lloyd George "who would tell someone else's wife"
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