D.Lloyd George is a striking figure in our new democracy, and his character and position are to be noted.

It was not as a labour representative but as the chosen mouthpiece of the working middle class, enthusiastic for Welsh nationalism, that Mr.Lloyd George entered Parliament in 1890, at the age of twenty-seven.

With his entry into the Cabinet, in company with Mr.John Burns, at the Liberal revival in 1905, government by aristocracy was ended; and when Mr.Lloyd George went from the Board of Trade to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, startling changes were predicted in national finance.

These predictions were held to have been fulfilled in the Budget of 1909.

The House of Lords considered the financial proposals of the Budget so revolutionary that it took the unprecedented course of rejecting the Bill, and thus precipitated the dispute between the two Houses of Parliament, which was brought to a satisfactory end by the Parliament Act of 1911.