17 January 2013Last updated at 07:20

In pictures: David Lloyd George election posters

Poster for the British Conservative Party from the 1910 General Elections. It depicts Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George (1863-1945) holding a bottle of Socialism sauce, with the caption 'Don't stand Lloyd George's sauce. He talks of free food, but his taxation is felt on every table'. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

David Lloyd George's reputation as one of the highest profile British politicians of 20th Century endures

A poster for the British Conservative Party from the 1910 General Election. It depicts Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) sitting on the budget and contemplating the building blocks of Capital and Labour, with the caption 'Can it be done? The Great Budget Puzzle. To knock away the lower block without disturbing the top one. Can it be done?' Artwork by Hassall. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

As these campaign posters from the 1910 and 1929 general elections show, his fame, or notoriety as that era's Conservative Party propagandists would have had voters believe, stemmed initially from his great reforming budget of 1909

A poster for the British Conservative Party from the 1910 General Elections. It depicts Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) being addressed by folk hero Robin Hood, with the words 'I took from the rich and gave to the poor. You rob both'. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

A year after being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, the Manchester-born solicitor declared war on poverty, raising taxes on luxuries, alcohol, tobacco, incomes and land to finance a raft of ambitious new social welfare measures - and new battleships

A poster for the British Conservative Party from the General Election, circa 1909. It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George stealing from the working man, the trader and the house-holder and giving the money to the temperance fanatic, the socialist and the foreigner, with the caption 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a -----? Plunder in 1909. Surplus in 1910'. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

His People's Budget, which targeted the rich upper class, won him the disapprobation of the Conservative Party and prompted the first of two general elections in 1910 when it was thrown out by the House of Lords

A poster for the British Conservative Party from the General Election, circa 1909. It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George trying to defraud John Bull with a Socialist horse, painted to look like a Liberal budget, with the caption 'The fraud exposed!' John Bull complains 'Look here, this dark horse you are trying to palm off on me is coming out in his true colours as soon as I begin to rub him down!' Artwork by Jack Walker. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

In the run-up to the January 1910 election, the Conservatives attacked the taxes and went after Lloyd George personally. The party is reported to have produced 50 million printed posters, leaflets and other propaganda items over the period, many of which were posted on horse-drawn hoardings

Following a hung parliament the Liberals clung on to power with support from the Irish Nationalists, but the uneasy balance of power resulted in a second election in December 1910

A poster for the British Conservative Party from the General Election, circa 1909. It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George with the caption 'The Demon Bowler'. A working man (captain of a cricket team) shouts, 'This isn't cricket! Since you've been trying to bowl old wealthy out, you've hit me in three places, as well as half killed several other fielders!'. Artwork by Jack Walker. (Photo by The Conservative Party Archive/Getty Images)

During the year the Liberal Party printed 40 million posters and leaflets of its own and Labour weighed in with five million leaflets, 800,000 manifestos and 50,000 posters. But the propaganda war apparently achieved little as in the second election no party gained or lost more than two seats

1911: A poster issued by the Liberal Government, promoting Lloyd George's National Health Insurance Bill as 'The Dawn of Hope'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lloyd George's National Insurance and Unemployment Insurance acts were finally passed in 1911 and the welfare state was born

1929 Liberal Party election poster. (Pic: Liberal Party Archive/Special Collections, Bristol University Library)

After serving as Prime Minister between 1916-22, Lloyd George succeeded Asquith as party leader in 1926 and led the Liberals into the 1929 election

Lloyd George's removal from Downing Street, which coincided with a scandal over the sale of knighthoods and peerages, had damaged not just his party but his personal reputation, something the Liberal Party propaganda machine tried its best to address

After the 1929 election the Liberals propped up a minority Labour government but by the early 1930s the party, and Lloyd George, had been diminished

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In pictures: David Lloyd George election posters

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