Labour's Problems 1951-1964
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- Labour's Problems 1951-1964
- Gaitskellites & Bevanites
- 1951-1964 period dubbed the '13 wasted years' by Harold Wilson
- Cons enjoyed a long period of office while economy recovered from deprivations of wartime & post-war reconstruction
- Labour was split between Bevanites on the left of the party & Gaitskellites on the right of the party
- Bevanites
- led by Aneurin Bevan (died 1960)
- dedicated socialists
- keen to nationalise all significant industry
- aimed to protect & expand welfare state
- anti-nuclear & anti-NATO
- Gaitskellites
- led by Hugh Gaitskill (died 1963)
- social democrats
- wanted to remove Clause IV
- not prepared to raise taxes to pay for the welfare state
- pro-nuclear & pro-NATO
- Internal Splits & Divisions
- these cracks were evident throughout the 1950s & helped keep labour out of power
- the key divisions were over membership of the EEC, nuclear disarmament & nationalisation
- Wilson's focus on technology & modernisation was an attempt to 'paper over' cracks in the Labour Party
- approach to NATO
- approach to nuclear weapons eg CND
- internal divide in ideology - Bevan v. Gaitskell
- didn't exploit Suez Crisis
- approach welfare state
- approach to nationalisation & Clause IV
- Gaitskellites & Bevanites
- Clause IV: called for the nationalisation of industry
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