continued support, the Irish nationalist MPs demanded measures to remove the Lords' veto so that they could no longer block Irish Home Rule. They even threatened to vote down the Budget in the House of Commons (Irish Nationalists favoured tariff reform and abhorred the planned increase in whisky duty) until Asquith pledged to introduce such measures. As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 28 April 1910, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, when the Unionists were again outpolled by their combined opponents. The result was another hung parliament, with the Liberals again relying on Labour and the Irish Parliamentary Party. Nonetheless, the Lords passed the Parliament Act 1911 when faced with the threat, obtained from a narrowly-convinced new King (George V, Edward VII having died on 6 May 1910, seven days after the Budget was passed), that it would be acceptable to flood the House of Lords with hundreds of new Liberal Party peers to give that party a majority or a near-majority there. See also Budget League Budget Protest League The Land (song) Welfare state in the United Kingdom Citations General and cited references Cross, Colin. The Liberals in Power, 1905–1914 (1963) pp. 101–111. online Gilbert, Bentley Brinkerhoff. "David Lloyd George: Land, The Budget, and Social Reform". American Historical Review 81.5 (1976): 1058–1066. Lee, Geoffrey. The People's Budget: An Edwardian Tragedy (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2008). Murray, Bruce K. "The Politics of the 'People's Budget'." Historical journal 16#3 (1973): 555–570. . Murray, Bruce K. "The Unionist Leaders and the rejection of the 'People's Budget', 1909." South African Historical Journal 8.1 (1976): 84–103. Watson, Steven. "The Budget and the Lords: the Crisis of 1909–11." History Today (1953) 3#4 pp. 240–248. online External links From Hansard indexes: "Finance Bill" (references dated 1909-04-29 to 1911-03-02 are to the People's Budget) "Budget Resolution" 1909 1910 The People's Budget and the Welfare State David Lloyd George Exhibition, National Library of Wales 1909 in British politics 1909 in economics 1910 government budgets Peoples Budget 1910 in economics Constitutional crises History of taxation in the United Kingdom Income tax in the United Kingdom Land taxation Political history of the United Kingdom United Kingdom budgets Welfare state in the United Kingdom David Lloyd George Winston Churchill