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Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Preface

Preface to the Third Edition

Introduction

PART I THE PIPERS AT THE GATE OF DAWN

1‘Thank you, Sir William’

2‘From cradle to grave’

3A very British revolution

PART II THE AGE Of OPTIMISM: 1942–51

4Butler – Education

5Butler’s legacy

6Bevan – Health

7‘With a song in my heart’ – Health and Social Security

8‘The Tremendous Tory’ – Housing

9The Final Foundations

10Conservatives, Consensus and the New Jerusalem

PART III CONSOLIDATION: 1951–74

11‘You’ve never had it so good’: Conservatives 1951–64

12Hope springs eternal: Labour 1964–70

13The Dawn of Doubt: Labour and Conservatives 1949–70

14The Tories’ last hurrah: Conservatives 1970–74

PART IV THE TIME OF DISILLUSION: 1974–79

15It was getting colder by the hour: Labour 1974–79

16‘We were wrong all along’: Conservatives 1974–79

PART V THE WELFARE STATE UNDER FIRE: 1979–92

17Cuts and catastrophes: Conservatives 1979–83

18Fighting Leviathans: Conservatives 1983–87

19Forming the future: Conservatives 1987–92

PART VI RETREAT OR RENEWAL? 1992–2010

20Thinking the unthinkable: Conservatives and Labour 1992–97

21Social security and social exclusion: Labour 1997–2007

22Public services – health, education and housing: Labour 1997–2007

23The Brown caesura: Labour 2007–10

PART VII THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN

24Austerity bites: The coalition and Conservatives 2010–16

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Photos Section

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