Attlee's Government

LABOUR 1945-51

Election campaign notes

'Let Us Face The Future' --> people's campaign

'Mr Churchill's Declaration of Policy to The Electors' --> churchill campaign

Landslide victory, 67 seat majority

Positive factors (pro Labour) and negative factors (anti Tory) & Interwar years/war years/campaign

• Vote difference may not have been so great if an election hadnt have been skipped during the war
• 'Never Again' --> memories of the interwar period (high poverty and unemployment)
• Labour's ministers able to gain valuble experience and reputations - Tories focussed on foreign affairs while Labour ministers…