The Conservatives ruled the British government for over two decades, however in 1906 the conservatives lost the election due to the party declining in popularity, they declined in popularity for many reasons. Firstly, the introduction of Tariff reform in May of 1903 by chamberlain was in response to competition with USA and Germany who had their own reforms and in result had grew much larger in the trade industry as of it. Now the introduction to tariff reform in GB was bad news especially for the conservatives who split the party up into three groups who all believed different things would benefit British trade. Despite splitting up the conservatives the intro of tariff reform benefited the Liberals Hugely. In 1904 Winston Churchill encouraged the Liberals to retrieve free trade. The liberals did this and took advantage of the growing decline in popularity in the conservative party for example stating ‘vote for Liberal get a big loaf of bread, vote for Conservative get a small piece of bread’ voting liberal prevented paying tax on food therefore it would be cheaper. Another Reason for the Conservatives not winning the 1906 election was the Boer War which took three years. Three long years to win. Which should not have happened due to the size and skill of the British Armed Forces and the small numbers and the lack of training of the opposing who were simply local farmers whose only advantage was they knew the land more. Now the war started off well but problems started being caused and was then made out into three years of hell for GB. The first concentration on recorded where made in South Africa during the war this was due to the GB army destroying homes and having to relocate the tenants. Word got out in the UK and caused outrage and the middle class called this a discredit to the Empire. This was not the end of their problems. Records after the war showed forty to sixty percent of British soldiers where unfit to fight in the w