‘Corn Laws’ were laws passed by the British government to restrict the import of corn. Corn laws led to high food prices because the demand for food grains had gone up in the urban and industrial cities. This led to the abolition of Corn Laws, forced on the government by industrialists and urban dwellers. The result was that food could be imported cheaply in Britain. Import of cheap food led to vast areas of land being left uncultivated, rendering thousands of men and women without jobs.People migrated to cities or overseas.