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Winston Churchill giving election speech during the General Election campaign of 1945
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Winston Churchill giving election speech during the General Election campaign of 1945
Winston Churchill giving election speech during the General Election campaign of 1945. Due to the intervention of the WW2 there had not been a General Election in the UK since 1935. The wartime coalition split and the Conservative Party, led by Winston Churchill and the Labour Party led by Clement Attlee prepared to contest the election. The Conservatives were confident of victory. With the world renowned statesman Churchill, fresh from victory in the war at the helm they doubted defeat was even remotely possible. The Labour Party however had some very strong factors on their side. Chief of these was the Beveridge report, which planned to set up a Welfare State in the UK. On July 26th Labour was swept to power with a massive majority, they had 393 seats to the Conservatives 213. Churchill himself may have contributed to the scale of the defeat by his outrageous rantings against his former wartime colleagues. He warned the country of a vote for Labour being a vote for Communism. Few believed him
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