Why did the Liberals introduce some social reforms in the period 1906-1914?

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Why did the Liberals introduce some social reforms in the period 1906-1914?

In January 1906 the Liberals won a landslide victory winning nearly 400 seats compared to the Conservatives 157. This was a new era for the Liberal party and the country, the government was no longer dominated by of wealthy landowners and aristocrats but contained new radical thinking Liberals. This government was no longer to pursue laissez faire policies as the Gladstonian Liberals had but was to start a new era of social reform. But why did the Liberals decide to pursue this policy of new liberalism and take the first steps to socially reform Britain?

There were mixed motives within the Liberal party for carrying out these social reforms. The attitudes to the poor were now changing throughout the country, thanks to the research of people such as Charles Booth and Seebohm Rowntree people no longer believed that the poor were in poverty just because they were lazy but because of low wages and large families that they could not afford. It was revealed that up to 30% of the population were living in poverty and some liberals felt this was socially unjust. The attitudes of