(1) To what extent did people "go with Labour in 1964"

What did Labour promise in 1964 General Election
1. A New Britain
  1. mobilising the resources of technology under a national plan
    1. By "harnessing our national wealth in brains"
    2. Scientific invention
    3. Medical discovery
2. Labour Cabinet will formulate the national economic plan with both sides of industry operating in partnership with the government
3. "revolution in our education system"
The General Election result was
1. Labour - 12,203,814 - 317 seats - 44.1%
2. Conservatives - 12,001,396 - 304 seats - 43.6%
3. Liberal - 3,692,878 - 9 seats 11.2%
4. Conservative vote fell by 6 points from 49.4% to 43.6%
5. Labour majority was only 4 seats
Harold Wilson - Pragmatist or Idealists?
1. Pragmatist
  1. He developed a strong relationship with the queen, who even asked him to stay for drinks after their weekly meeting.
  2. When he became Labour leader, his deputy George Brown (a unreliable alcoholic who he had just beaten to become leader) went on holiday for five days, making it impossible for him to name his shadow cabinet
  3. “I’d always been driven by a feeling that there is something to be done and I really ought to be doing it" - Wison
  4. At Oxford - Sandbrook D
    1. "He displayed very little interest in radical ideas or student politics."
    2. Indeed, he was noted more for his political blandness’ than for any strong convictions,
  5. Ziegler: I have to admit I'am far from a committed socialist", Wilson: "Nor am I"
  6. Exteriorly lay a shrews political strategist, he wanted to go to the top - Barbara castle

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