AQA A Level History Depth Study: Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition, 1906-1957 June 2023 question paper 7042/2M

With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying Ramsay MacDonald’s political decisions in 1931.

‘The Liberal government’s social and welfare reforms, in the years 1906 to 1914, failed to deal with the problems of poverty.’

Assess the validity of this view.

To what extent was the rise of Labour, in the years 1916 to 1922, due to divisions in the Liberal Party?

‘The Labour government was deeply divided throughout the years 1945 to 1951.’

Assess the validity of this view.