Churchill successfully demobilised 5m troops without major a unemployent problem in 1919-1920.
LG formed a ministry with Tories like Balfour, Liberals like Churchill and new men such as Fisher, Geddes and Mond.
LG set up new ministries to deal with new problems, e.g. Ministries of Health and Transport.
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The Economy
The Economy was fairly rapidly moved from a wartime to a peacetime basis.
Controls over prices and rents; the rationing of food gradually disappeared.
The railways and coalmines - taken over by the State during the War were returned to private enterprise and the railways reorganised into 4 large companies for greater efficiency.
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Industrial Relations
A dangerous climate of industrial realtions in 1919-1920 were defused by the use of ...
Special powers e.g. the Emergency Powers Act,
By stalling e.g. The Sankey Commision 1919 to head off a coal strike
And also by appeasment e.g. higher wages for police.
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Financially
LG's government tried to reduce the deficit and pay off war debts by major cuts in Govt spending.
The Geddes Axe - though reduced by LG- cut £64m off spending.
The misery of unemployment was eased a little by extending National Insurance to cover most workers earning below average wages.
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Socially
LG's government brought in major reforms.
Addison's Act 1919 led to over 200,000 good quality council houses being built at modest rents for the working class.
Fisher's Education Act raised the school leaving age to 14 and promised part-time continuation education to 18.
Old Age pensions were extended, pensions for the disabled and for war widows brought in and the NI scheme extended.
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The Irish Problem
Taken out of British politics.
Ireland was partioned in 1920 with the Ulster unionists, getting their own state of Northern Ireland, and Sinn Fein getting virtual independence for most of Ireland by the 1921 Treaty.
NI remained in the UK, the Free State left the Union but remained within the British Empire as a Dominion.
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In Foreign Policy
LG attended over 20 international conferences and played a key role in redrawing the boundaries of Europe and the Middle East.
He lessened the harshness of French demands on Germany.
He secured control of Middle Eastern oil for Britain.
He acquired control of most of the Middle East, strengthening British control of the Suez Canal and the routes to India.
The Washington Naval treaty helped prevent a new Naval Race thus adding to World security.
In the Empire LG moved India along the road to self-govt, with his 1919 Government of India Act.
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