ABSTRACT
Churchill replaced Lloyd George as president of the Board of Trade in 1908 as part of the reshuffle attendant upon Asquith replacing Campbell-Bannerman as prime minister.
Churchill was keen to introduce social reform in order to live up to his father’s Tory Democratic reputation, in order to realize his own ambitions, in order that Britain be able to compete more effectively with Germany, and in order to pre-empt the advance of socialism by means of ‘a sort of Germanized network of State intervention and regulation’.
