What were the reasons for the Conservatives losing the 1964 election?
by
sunkenthread (student)
What were the reasons for the conservatives losing the 1964 election? The conservative party had been a major power throughout Britain for many years, helping her through her post war strife, countless economic crisis’ and developing her houses and creating ‘houses built for heroes’ as Supermac would say ‘you never had it so good’. But it was now time for a new power to be put in place after the conservative failure in the election of 1964 to the new labour leader on the block, Harold Wilson. There were many reasons on why the tides turned during the 1964 election, mainly labour offered up to the country a ‘New Britain’ offering to mobilise technology and resources to bring Britain into a new age. The new labour government also promised to reduce the