David Lloyd George was voted the third greatest British prime minister of the 20th century, after Winston Churchill.
 Scholars have praised his welfare reforms and his efforts to mobilise and lead Britain to victory during the First World War, but he has also been criticised for adopting a "presidential" style of leadership, for distrusting his own commanders during the war, and for his strategic failures and involvement in various scandals
==== Foreign policy crises ====A series of foreign policy crises gave Lloyd George his last opportunity to hold national and international leadership

