Britain’s welfare state was a Liberal, not Labour, innovation

Evidence

Social welfare in Britain was a Liberal innovation, dating from the 1906 election following which Winston Churchill became Liberal President of the Board of Trade. Later on, when the Liberal Party had been eclipsed by the Labour Party, the figures whom Hayek most closely associated with the forces of collectivism, Keynes and Beveridge, were Liberals—not Labour, nor Conservative. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 393

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 393
• XREF: connects to: New Liberalism directly produced Britain’s pensions, insurance, and welfare state — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 314; Interwar British liberalism re-founded itself on economics rather than politics — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 395; Keynes himself was a Liberal party member — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 493

Broader Connections

• Keynes himself was a Liberal party member #exemplifies (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 493
• Interwar British liberalism re-founded itself on economics rather than politics #responds-to (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 395