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