modern liberalism

• modern liberals believe in an enabling state — a larger role for government in helping individuals to be free and to achieve their potential. They arrived at this position through a growing awareness of the inequality of late 19th-century society, which they linked to low pay, unemployment, slum housing and poor working conditions
• New Liberals', they supported policies of welfare as the way to bring about equality of opportunity. They argued that, if individuals and groups are held back by their social circumstances, the state has a social responsibility to reduce or remove these disadvantages —known as welfare or social liberalism.