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1527588629 pdf 1527588629 pdf This book explores the origins of the post-war Welfare State in the UK, the creation of which is almost universally consideredto an extent which is regarded here as being tantamount to a mythas being solely a Labour Party creation. The book examines the various contributions to the development of welfarism across the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular those of Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and William Beveridge. It assesses the effects of two World Wars the daunting economic challenges of the 1920s and 1930s the stimuli to post-war reconstruction the 1945 Labour governments implementation of the wartime Coalition Governments post-Beveridge conclusions and the Conservative Partys attitude after 1945 to Labours legislative programme. The book invites the reader to accept that, taking developments over the half-century as a whole, the greater share of the credit for the creation of a welfare state belongs to the Conservative Party. Read more