20.3 Labour divisions

Question 1

What was the 1950 disagreement between Bevan v Morrison?

Answer 1

B = More nationalisation (would have appealed more to working class voters)

M = Consolidate and ensure support of middle class votes - more popular idea

Morrison won the argument and on 1950 manifesto did not promote more nationalisation

Question 2

What was the 1951 disagreement between Bevan v Gaitskell?

Answer 2

B + Bevanites opposed Gaitskell’s prescription charges and increased spending on defence

Question 3

What were Bevan’s three main arguments in 1950-51?

Answer 3

• GB should distance itself from American cold war policies
• Breach of NHS principle of free treatment
• More or less nationalisation

Question 4

Why was Bevan’s actions particularly damaging to labour?

Answer 4

Majority of 5 in the 1950 election

Question 5

What protest did Bevan make in the House of Commons and when?

Answer 5

Bevan launched an attacking speech upon the House of Commons Budget debate in April 1951 highly critical

Question 6

When did Bevan resign?

Answer 6

23rd April 1951