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Joe Levy Politics Homework How many forms of 'Conservatism' are observable between 1945-1980? In the 1950s and 1960s Conservatism was at 'the Age of Consensus'. The postwar Labour government of Clement Attlee had established what is commonly referred to as a 'welfare state', in which major industries had been taken into public ownership, increasing government control of the economy, and a National Health Service had been established in order to provide free medical treatment to all citizens. The Conservative reaction to this was one of reconciliation. The Party leadership had been dominated by Traditional Conservatives for generations, and Conservative Governments between the wars had demonstrated their hostility to the free market in the 1920s in such policies as protection of industry and agriculture from foreign trade and a degree of intervention to ease problems caused by the Great Depression of the early 1930s; they were also willing to compromise for the sake...

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