How Did Lloyd George Win The Liberal Party

Up until the end of the Great War, and especially during the war years, Lloyd George served his Nation greatly. He has often been hailed as ‘the man who won the war’. Although after the war he struggled to make good on his promise of making Britain ‘a fit land for heroes to live in’. Nevertheless he did his Nation a great service. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for what he did to the Liberal Party. Lloyd George was never a party man and cannot be said to have served his party well, he played an ultimately destructive role in the party; the split of the Liberal party owes much to ‘the man who won the war’. But he did, nevertheless, play a major role in winning the war. As wartime chancellor Lloyd George’s wartime budgets doubled income