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What are the bevanite quarrels
- split in labour in 1951
aneurin bevan resigned as minister of labour over prescription charges
General election 1951
Labour: 295 seats 48.8% votes
Conservative: 321 seats 48% votes
Winston Churchill pm
May1940-1945
1951-1955
Stroke 1953
international statesmen
Joined liberals in 1904, rejoined cons in 1924
Absenteeism, left Eden acting pm
Anthony Eden pm
1955-1957
Called another election, seats majority from 17 to 60
Butter chancellor
MacMillan foreign secretary
6 months in mps voicing concern
r.a.butler pm
-Made 1944 education act
- chancellor 1951-55
- possible leader 1957 and 1963
- tax cuts in 1955, reversed after election (overheated economy)
Harold MacMillan
- Housing minister in Churchill‘s govt 1951
-foreign secretary in Eden government
, - Cons pm in 1957
How much of the workforce did the depression effect
25%
General election 1955
Labour: 277 seats,46.9% votes
Conservative: 345 seats, 49.7% votes
What did Eden do to macmillan
Suez crisis
Move from foreign office to treasurey oct 1955, held up til decembe
1996
lied in the House of Commons 40 Conservative MPs rebelled
General election 1959
Labour: 258 seats, 44.6% votes
Conservative: 365 seats, 48.8% votes
Majority pushed to over 100 seats
Post war consensus
- A mixed economy involvement by state as well as private enterprise
- support for the NHS and welfare state
- ensure full employment and to avoid mass unemployment
- work with trade unions and employers
After the war:
- housing
- education
- social reforms
- 1951 promised 300,000 houses a year replace slums from before war (McMillan)
- Tripartite system Butler act of 1944: Grammar School, technical school, secondary modern after 11+ test, Eden tried promote more technical, Churchill had financial strain for them, 1960s some questioned
- clean air act 1956, housing and factory act 1950, homicide act 1957, Wolfenden commission 1957 (homosexual behaviour not criminal)
Labour Party 1955
Bevan
Gaitskell
- Attlee step down as leader
-nye Bevan resigned from labour in 1951 protest against prescriptions charges support of labour MPs and trade unionists
– Hugh Gaitskell Chancellor of the Exchequer 1950 to 51 introduce prescription charges right of labour party became leader and 1955 defeating Bevan attempted to reform labour but was unsuccessful
Unilateral nuclear disarmament
Initially Bevan opposed but changed in 1957 “it would send a British Foreign Secretary make it into the conference chamber“
Campaign for nuclear disarmament (CND) was the labour left unturned voters away
Frank cousins
S The leader of most powerful union the transport and General workers union
in 1958 led unsuccessful bus strike against Macmillan government
in Labour Party conference in October 1960 opposed gate skills leadership of labour movement
Blackpool conference 1959
Scarborough conference 1960
Gaitskell put forward idea of abortion clause 4, committing party to nationalisation, backed down without putting to vote as opposition from left too strong
Emotional speech to convince the conference to reject unilateral nuclear disarmament, lost food in 1960 but succeeded a year later
Conservatives fall from power:
Macmillan resignation
Gaitskell death
EEC application
October 1963
1963 new leader Harold Wilson
Early 1960s concerns over economy application in 1961 rejected in 1963
Conservatives fall from power:
Night of the Long knives
George Blake
John vassal
Profumo
Macmillan radically reshuffled cabinet in July 1962, sacked a third, weakened
soviet double agent in 1961
1962 blackmailed on the basis of homosexuality
1963 secretary of state for war slept with high-end prostitute who was also sleeping with Soviet spy Ivanov
Conservatives fall from power:
Macmillan
Abdominal operation autumn 1963, resigned in October
No preparation for who to succeed
Rab butler and lord halisham main candidates but lord home was picked 
