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The government hobbles on…
Tried to inject some ‘fun’ with the Festival of Britain in 1951
- 100 years after the Great Exhibition
Policy splits
- Korean War
- Left wingers were uneasy at pro-American policies
- Re-armament costs lead to even more cuts and austerity
- Funding for the NHS
- Charges were imposed for dental, opticians and prescriptions to ration demand
- Bevan resigned and took other left wingers with him (Bevanites)
- Ernest Bevin
- Standard bearer for right of Labour party died April 1951