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The Churchill Administration
Churchill was 77
He had an ambitious Anthony Eden as his Foreign Secretary
Era of Butskellism?
- A play on Butler who was the Conservative Chancellor of Exchequer taking on many of the ideas of the Labour party as personified by Hugh Gaitskell
- Gaitskell on right of Labour Party
- Bevanites on left
- Governing from the centre?
A period of consensus or divergence?