domestic policies

Question 1

most conservatives had already

Answer 1

accepted many of the reforms of the previous labour government

Question 2

the new government accepted the existence of the so-called?

Answer 2

post-war consensus

Question 3

post-war consensus agreement after World War 2 this included:

Answer 3

-belief in a mixed economy, involvement by state as well as private enterprise
-support for NHS and welfare state
-a wish to ensure full employment and to avoid the mass unemployment of 1930s
-working with both trade unions and employers

Question 4

housing:

Answer 4

-1951 conservative housing manifesto promised to build 300,000 houses a year
-rebuild housing stock destroyed during the war, replace many slums people lived in before the war
-Macmillian as housing minister oversaw all this

Question 5

education:

Answer 5

conservatives continued the tripartite system which developed after Butler Act 1944- secondary modern, technical schools, and grammar schools
-by the beginning of the 1960s people began to question whether fair

Question 6

social reforms:

Answer 6

Macmillian created a lot of reforms:
-Clear Air Act 1956-aimed to prevent the smog of the early 1950s
-housing and factory acts aimed to improve living standards and working conditions
-butler as Home Secretary (1957-62) more liberal than other conservatives - The Homicide Act 1957 restricted when death penalty would be imposed