How did Sidney Webb help write Labour and the New Social Order in 1918?

Sidney Webb was able to draft the Labour Party’s seminal 1918 policy statement, Labour and the New Social Order, primarily through his close relationship with the party’s wartime leader, Arthur Henderson.1

Following the Webbs' decision to join the Labour Party in 1914, Sidney Webb became a member of the party's executive committee. Leveraging his position and providing a constant supply of disinterested advice to Henderson, Webb was tasked with drafting the document, which served as the party's first and most significant policy statement for many years. His wife, Beatrice Webb, collaborated with him throughout this period on this and other political tasks.1