Labour

Question 1

When did Labour win the election?

Answer 1

26th of July 1945

millions voted in the election

Question 2

What did the Labour Manisfesto offer?

Answer 2

Comprehensive insurance scheme
National health service be set up immediately 
Full employment
education improvements
Housing improvements

Question 3

Why did Labour win?

Answer 3

• powerful feeling in Britain in favour of reform
• stressed planning, reconstruction and equality
• implement the Beveridge Report more quickly
• Attlee came across as assured and calm
• promised to build more houses than conservatives
• promised changed

Question 4

Why did the conservatives lose?

Answer 4

emphasised the need for continuity under churchill rather than change
policies were just hopes not definite
Churchill’s wartime popularity didn’t cross over into peacetime
Party relied too much on churchill
conservatives associated with grim economic depression of the 1930’s

Question 5

When was the Beveridge report introduced and who by?

Answer 5

1942- sir william Beveridge

Question 6

What were the core principals of the report?

Answer 6

everyone should receive the same benefits, it reccomended:
no means test
national insurance scheme run by gov
flat rate benefit paid out to sick and unemployed workers
extra benefits providing for children and health care
benefits for divorced women

Question 7

What were the five giants identified by Beveridge?

Answer 7

Ignorance (lack of education)
Disease
Idleness (unemployment)
Squalor (living conditions)
Want (lack of basic needs)

Question 8

How did the Government deal with some of the five giants?

Answer 8

Family allowance- 1945 every family recieved five shillings a week for each child after the first until each children reached age of 16 or was employed full time.

National Insurance- 1946 employers workers and gov paid into scheme and the scheme paid out benefits to workers out of work due to sickness, unemployment or pregnancy.

National Insurance injury act

Pensions- paid to all men when reached age of 65 or women aged 60.

Question 9

How was ignorance dealt with?

Answer 9

1944- education act raised school leaving age to 15

Question 10

How was squalor dealt with?

Answer 10

1946- Housing production executive saw the construction of one million houses
1946- new towns act- created 17 new towns in England
5 in scotland and 1 in Wales