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Britain
The affluent society
Internal labour divisions
Left-Bevan
Right Gaitskell
3 main issues
Clause IV
Nuclear deterrent
Prescription charges
Reasons for 1964 election loss
Labour successes
Scandals
Out of touch
Conservatives failures
Conservatives leaders
Eden 1955-57
Macmillan 1957-1963
Churchill 1951-1955
Douglas-Home 1963-1964
Domestic policies
Housing-300,000 new houses
Clean air act 1956
Economic
Economic decline
Productivity was down
Post war boom=increase in consumerism, home and car ownership
Balance of payments and stop go economics
Imports were stripping exports so government intervened with policies to combat this
Social
Role of woman-75% married by aged 21
Deterred from working
Immigration-Notting hill riots
Working class-wages increased working conditions improved
Foreign relations
EEC didn't want to join-left feared it to be a capitalist club
Not popular with leading politicians
Didn't think they needed it
Did want to join EEC
Economic issues
Relationship was better with Europe
Suez crisis showed they lost world power
USA relationship
Start of the troubles in Northern Ireland
The sixties
Harold Wilson of the labour party
Reasons for 1964 election
Economic issues-inflation rises, either use deflation or devaluation, chose to do neither, set up DEA in 1964,did nothing
Liberal reforming legislation
Legalisation of homosexual relations-over 21 in private 1967
1969-death penalty abolished
Divorce reform act-living apart for 2years 1969
Abortions legalised 1967
Educational reforms
Tripartite system was criticised
Wilson introduced comprehensive schools
Expansion of higher education-open unviersityb