{"id":422,"date":"2011-06-05T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T10:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cymmrodorion.org\/uncategorized-cy\/lloyd-george-and-land-reform-the-welsh-context-3\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:05:42","slug":"lloyd-george-and-land-reform-the-welsh-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cymmrodorion.org\/cy\/lloyd-george-and-land-reform-the-welsh-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd George and Land Reform: The Welsh Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Lloyd George was undoubtedly the outstanding Welsh political figure of the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.<sup>1<\/sup> Among the multifarious themes that intersected with his career, one of the most long-lasting was his devotion to land reform and to attacking the role of landowners in society and politics.<\/p>\n<p>This concept played a crucial role in Lloyd George\u2019s political life at a number of points and this article concentrates on three of the most significant of these events: the role of the famous land taxes in his 1909 \u2018People\u2019s Budget\u2019; the land enquiry and land campaign that Lloyd George initiated in 1912-14 to provide the centrepiece of the Liberal election strategy in the next general election, which was due in 1915; and finally Lloyd George\u2019s second land campaign of 1925-9, which he hoped would prove crucial to a great Liberal revival in the post-First World War era.<sup>2<\/sup> Lloyd George\u2019s persistent commitment to land reform raises an important question about whether there were consistent themes in the career in this most protean of politicians. 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