How successfully did Balfours deal with problems of government up to 1905?

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How successfully did Balfour’s deal with problems of government up to 1905?

Balfour faced many problems in his reign as prime minister. Even when he began he faced many problems with what the situation was in England. There were a series of investigations just before Balfour came into power which shows England to be full of poverty and disease. Then there is no wonder why so many volunteers were rejected from the Boer war because of poor health.

In 1900 there had been a strike against the Taff Vale Railway Company in South Wales. The company took the union, the Amalgamated Society of Railway servants to court and won; the union had to pay £23,000 damages. This case showed that no union could strike without the fear of being sued. Balfour nothing to help this problem because he was firmly set against changing any laws, the Taff Vale case lost most of the workers support. Balfour didn’t deal with this case successfully because he lost the support of the working class.

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The problem he faced with the education in schools. He dealt with this particular problem well by employing the education act of 1902. This act improved the education provided at secondary schools with weren’t up to the standard expected. He did this by abolishing the school boards and transferring responsibility for education provision to county and borough counties. Also church schools received funding. This was a good act because the government had control over where the money went to. This was almost a completely successful act created, the only down side was that it upset the nonconformists because they ...

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