People's Budget People's Budget The 1909/1910 People's Budget was a proposal of the Liberal government that introduced unprecedented taxes on the lands and high incomes of Britain's wealthy to fund new social welfare programmes. It passed the House of Commons in 1909 but was blocked by the House of Lords for a year and became law in April 1910. It was championed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and his young ally Winston Churchill, who was then President of the Board of Trade and a fellow Liberal; called the "Terrible Twins" by certain Conservative contemporaries. Churchill's biographer, William Manchester,
Frances Lloyd George secretary. Stevenson chose the location and supervised the construction of Lloyd George's country house in Churt, Surrey. She also arranged and collated Lloyd George's extensive archive of personal and political papers so that he could write his "War Memoirs". After having been persuaded by Lloyd George to have two abortions, Stevenson gave birth to a daughter, Jennifer, in 1929. Although Stevenson had been having an affair with Thomas Frederic Tweed, a novelist who was one of Lloyd George's political advisers, Lloyd George was probably the father of Stevenson's child. Two years after the death of Lloyd George's wife Margaret, Stevenson