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Conservative governments - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Conservative: 48% of vote, 321 seats
      - Labour: 48.8% of vote, 295 seats
    - - Conservative: 49.7% of vote, 345 seats
      - Labour: 46.4% of vote, 277 seats
    - - Conservative: 48.8% of vote, 365 seats
      - Labour: 44.6% of vote, 258 seats
  - - - political crisis
        
        accused of lying in House of Commons; had told House that Britain did not know that Israel planned to invade Egypt Dec 1956; in reality the plan for France and Britain to invade after had been in place since October
        
        under heavy attack from Labour party, and sections of national press - esp Manchester Guardian
        
        40 Conservative Mps rebelled and Colonial Minister Anthony Nutting resigned as a result
      - Foreign issues
        
        pressure from US exposed Britain's financial weaknesses
- - - - grammar school
      - technical
      - secondary modern