Post-war consensus
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The post-war consensus, sometimes called the post-war compromise, was the economic order and social model of which the major political parties in post-war Britain shared a consensus supporting view, f
Hugh Gaitskell
Winter of Discontent
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The Winter of Discontent was the period between late September 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public sector trade unions demandi
Post-war consensus
…crises of the 1970s. Mark Kesselman et al. argue: Britain was suffering economically without growth and with growing political discontent ... the "winter of discontent" destroyed Britain's collectivist consensus and discredited the Keynesian welfare state. In 1972 Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber introduced…
The Sun's headline "Crisis? What crisis?"
Margaret Thatcher, who won the 1979 general election and became Prime Minister
Prime Minister James Callaghan
James Callaghan