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What led to the breakdown of the post war political consensus? The post war political consensus as a term meant the union between the conservatives and the Labour party on issues including economic and social policy. It is said that the consensus was starting to crumble away from as early as 1968. This was down to several different reasons which all played a factor in the over all breakdown. After the 1951 conservative win in the general election, little happened to change the agreements that were made by both parties but nonetheless continued to work along the same lines as the consensus, but for a long time there was always said to be several differences between the two parties, just because they implemented the same policies does not mean that they were always working on the same lines. In fact their styles, attitudes and emphasis all differentiated in the long run....

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