Conservatives 1951-64
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- Created on: 20-04-17 13:01
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- Why they won the 1951 election
- Promised to keep welfare state, end rationing, build homes, liberals voted Conservative.
- Divisions within the Labour party, Bevan prescription charges. Also illness and a poor manifesto.
- First past the post, labour had a higher %
- Conservatives 1951-64
- Reasons for fall from power
- ''Night of long knives", sacked 1/3 of cabinet
- Power struggle
- Macmillan out of touch.
- EEC application rejected 1963
- Profumo affair 1963
- Macmillan's illness
- Spy scandals
- Domestic policies
- Accepted the reforms and post-war consensus, especially the NHS
- 1951-Promised to build 300.000 houses a year
- Continued with tripartite education and 11+ test
- Clean air act 1956
- Took on more liberal issues such as the death penalty and homosexual relations
- Labour divisions
- Bevanite quarrel was one of the main issues
- 1957 big split over nuclear disarmament, Bevan opposed
- Mainly divisions over party direction, Marxism or Liberal
- 1959 Gaitskell wanted to abolish Clause IV that committed the party to nationalisation
- Reasons for fall from power
- Labour associated with austerity.
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