Yet a Socialist government elected in 1945 brought us the NHS, the Welfare State, a mass council house building program, established NATO, rebuilt the nations infrastructure at a time of minus 256% of GDP, Invested in industry (we were a world leader in aircraft manufacturing) and helped us to narrow inequality.
The country was massively in debt but the economic growth delivered by Keynsian economics led to a Conservative PM saying "this country has never had it so good" Union power was at its zenith, we had full employment, schools were rebuilt, education attainment was at its highest ever, the white heat of technology gave us Concorde,
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