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What was Harold Macmillian’s (1894-1986) idea
-a middle way between capitalism and socialism
: respect of property rights while addressing economic inequalities
What did Conservative politicians support in this time
Public health, Housing and Factory Acts
What brought conservatism closer to a ‘big government’ post 1945
The embracing of Keynesian economics, ‘welfare state’ and ‘mixed economies’
main threat of egalitarianism in the 20th century
Soviet Union
threat to conservatism in the in early 20th century
extension of franchise and Labour
reason for shift to pragmatism and opportunism
conservative politicians in the 20th century needed to win elections which were now dominated by working class and non property owners
what did socialist thinkers think of this change
‘conservatives conserve no principles’
Quintin Hogg’s Case for Conservatism (1948)
Conservatism recognises laissez-faire can be destructive
R.A. Butler’s The Art of the Possible (1971)
Keynesian economics is just an updated expression in the beliefs in one nation and paternalism
