>>16485No I am sure I am not wrong.
Okay so in Britain, atleast form what I've learned. The vast majority of reforms firstly starting somewhere in the 1850s were attributed to the works of Disraeli's Conservatives and Gladstone's Liberals.
This was essentially the period that governments essentially began involving themselves more and attempting to intervene in the lives of British people rather than a laissez-faire approach. This involved give local councils more decentralized power to clear slums, mandatory education and the legitimization of trade unions legally that couldn't be charged as "conspiracy".
The conservatives although I will say played off the more progressive, forward-looking since well being conservative in itself is quite a flexible term and this was also the period that Conservatives took a more paternalistic approach which is where most of their reform come from.
The legitimization of of trade unions by the liberals are key since many people consider the Liberals to have been a precursor to the modern Labour party. Since this was crucial in allowing for the gradual rise of Trade Unions which then led to the formation in 1868. Which would lead to a large amassing of political and economic powers in the hands of trade unions.
Then in collaboration with the Fabian Society, the SDF then came the formation of the Labor party. Then in the 1920s this leads to the formation of Britain's Communist party there's even a clause in the Labour Party's constitution that calls for maximum workweeks and minimum wages.
Then even in the 1950s the government, through Clement Attlee establishes the NHS in order to quell and neutralize the rampant radicalism occuring in Britain at the time.
Whether they deserve praise is your opinion but this is genuinely, at least from where I'm from how it happened.