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Goodbye to All That: British Domestic Politics during the Second World War 1940–1945

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‘When they reached London, Chamberlain had already resigned, and Attlee and Greenwood were asked to go to the Admiralty to see Churchill,’ Dalton recorded in his diary on 10 May 1940. ‘It is thus clear that the last blow which dislodged the old limpet was struck by us at Bournemouth this afternoon,’ According to Dalton, the National Executive of the Labour Party, meeting in that town, where its Conference was being held, decided unanimously that the Party was prepared ‘to take our share of responsibility in a new Government which, under a new Prime Minister, would command the confidence of the nation’.1 It was later to be as much the stuff of popular legend that the Labour Party had put Churchill into Downing Street as it was that Churchill becoming Prime Minister was inevitable.

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Fry, G.K. (2001). Goodbye to All That: British Domestic Politics during the Second World War 1940–1945. In: The Politics of Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230628113_6

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