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LAURENCE RAVEN WHY DID THE LABOUR PARTY WIN THE ELECTION OF 1964? From 1951-64 the Conservative Party enjoyed a period of unparalleled supremacy in British politics. Despite their troubles over the Suez debacle, inflationary pressures in the economy and the nervous, agitated leadership of Eden, they still remained the dominant force in the duopoly of political supremacy. Labour meanwhile had suffered three successive electoral defeats, a change of party leader, major internal divisions between party colleagues and a conflict in party policy. They had become an unelectable, disorganised, bickering party which was a sharp contrast to the Conservatives' apparent unity. However, by 1964 they were back in power. Was this because of a major success in the promotion of pan-socialism by Messrs Wilson and Gaitskell, or because the Conservatives lost the confidence of the electorate so markedly as to warrant a termination of their time in office? The Macmillan era had been largely...

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