Churchill and Eden 1951-6
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- Churchill and Eden 1951-56
- Consensus
- Accept welfare state
- House-building programme
- work with trade unions
- Industrial relations
- Unofficial strikes not faced with army intervention
- "English disease"
- Low productivity
- Lack of modernisation
- Increasing demands
- INFLATION
- Welfare state
- Housing - Macmillan - priority
- Exceeded target of 300,000 houses
- Housing - Macmillan - priority
- Butler and economy
- balance of payments not great
- defence costs soaring
- import bill huge
- cut travel allowances, raised Bank Rate and tried to control imports
- America entered boom
- Butler able to cut income tax
- all went wrong again :(
- too many imports, rising wages caused inflation
- released tax cutting budget
- came back with harsh cuts
- cut everyday items 0 'pots and pans' budget
- came back with harsh cuts
- released tax cutting budget
- too many imports, rising wages caused inflation
- all went wrong again :(
- Butler able to cut income tax
- America entered boom
- balance of payments not great
- Labour in opposition
- Bevan struggled to hold things together
- role of Britain as nuclear power split party
- Eden 1955-6
- little domestic knowledge - star at foreign matters
- Suez Crisis 1956
- Consensus
- Minister for Health - Macleod
- Fought for money to modernise NHS
- Welfare state
- Housing - Macmillan - priority
- Exceeded target of 300,000 houses
- Housing - Macmillan - priority
- Welfare state
- Fought for money to modernise NHS
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