Politics & Economics 1951-1964
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- Politics & Economics 1951-1964
- Consensus Politics 1945 - 1963
- both Lab & Cons committed to
- full employment
- nationalised industries
- NHS
- new houses
- welfare state
- expanding education (tripartite system)
- both Lab & Cons committed to
- Prime Ministers
- Winston Churchill 1951-1955
- second term as PM - mainly a figurehead
- 78 years old in 1951
- Ill throughout much of his premiership
- suffered a series of minor strokes - not made public
- more concerned with foreign affairs than domestic issues
- haunted by the Cold War & h-bomb
- Anthony Eden 1955-1957
- became PM at 58 in 1955
- regarded as Churchill's heir for years
- Churchill kept him waiting before he resigned (Blair & Brown?)
- he was popular, charismatic, handsome & respected at home & abroad
- forced to resign after less than 2 years following Suez Crisis
- Harold Macmillan 1957-1963
- became PM at 63 in Jan 1957
- won the 1959 election
- known as 'superman' for his handling of the economy
- known as 'Mac the knife' for sacking several minister in one cabinet reshuffle
- resigned early due to ill health in 1963
- Alec Douglas Home 1963-1964
- chosen by Macmillan
- lasted one year & narrowly lost the 1964 election
- Winston Churchill 1951-1955
- Was Britain governed by a clique?
- Govt. mainly made up of old men who had been in politics in the 1920s
- many had fought in WWI
- went to the same schools, unis & gentlemen's clubs
- related to each other
- Macmillan was related to 35 of 85 ministers in his govt - 7 in his cabinet
- lived in a narrow closed off world of class, wealth, country house & privilege
- seen as 'out-of-touch' with ordinary British people by late 1950s
- lack of opportunity of meritocracy
- Macmillan seemed to belong more to the Edwardian era than the age of television
- Duncan Sandys - Housing Minister 1955-57 & Defence Minister 1957-59
- son-in-law of Churchill
- Profumo Scandal
- he was Minister for War in Macmillan's govt.
- It emerged that he had sexual relations with Christine Keller
- she was a prostitute who had also had relations with a spy at the Soviet embassy
- Profumo exposed as having lied to Parliament
- the affair became symbolic of the hypocrisy among the ruling clique
- Govt. mainly made up of old men who had been in politics in the 1920s
- 1964 General Election
- Labour lost the safe seat of Smethwick, Midlands
- first time race was used in an election
- local Tory party slogan was 'if you want a ****** for a neighbour, vote Labour'
- Consensus Politics 1945 - 1963
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