Cartoon showing Herbert Asquith presenting the 1909 'People's Budget'. Herbert Henry Asquith, (1852 - 1928), British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. In a major speech in December 1908, Asquith announced that the upcoming budget would reflect the Liberals' policy agenda, and the People's Budget that was submitted to Parliament by Lloyd George the following year greatly expanded social welfare programmes.

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