On This Day
01 March 1929
Lloyd George on unemployment
Lloyd George pledged to reduce unemployment to ‘normal’ proportions within a year through a series of work programmes. The launch of We Can Conquer Unemployment, the policy document containing this pledge, formed the backbone of the Liberal’s election campaign. The proposal to use national development projects to create work for the unemployed was rooted in the Yellow Book, which had been published in 1928.