Social Reform: Peels reforms at the Home Office merely brought British criminal law up to date. Offences which carried the death pentalty, such as stealing a loaf of bread orr damaging Westminster bridge, meant that juries were unwilling to convict because of the harshness of the penalty. Reforms of the prisons were made after the pressure from reformers such as William Howard and Samual Romily.
Financial and trade reform: The trade and finance reform was a continuation of reforms introduced by William Pitt the Younger in the period 1784-90 and discontinued because of the war with France.
Trade Unions: the legalisation of trade unions was mainly the responsibility of the House of Commons. It followed the reccomendations of a House of Commons Select Committee investigation into trade unions.
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