AHC: Let Churchill win the '45 elections

As the title says, try to write down some ideas which could allow old Winston to remain first minister in 1945. Additional kudos if you manage also to imagine how this alternate term would be, and link it with the OTL 1951-55 term as well.
 
Churchill recognises the need for social reform and promises the full implementation of the Beveridge Report, focusing on things like housing and healthcare, doesn't make that stupid Gestapo comment, and doesn't focus on international issues. Then maybe he has a fighting chance, but even then it's practically ASB. Labour's victory was inevitable
 
That's... difficult. The best I could see happen would possibly be the Conservatives not putting their local constituency groups or campaigning organisations on indefinite hold during the war allowing them to deteriorate unlike Labour, embrace the Beveridge report rather than just giving it a provisional approval and waiting to see what the post-war economic situation is like before implementing it, and running a better campaign with no stupid mistakes like the Gestapo comment. Even then I think the best they could achieve would be to reduce Labour's landslide majority to merely a large one, come 1950 however that could well mean they win the election.


Churchill recognises the need for social reform and promises the full implementation of the Beveridge Report...
Its been an absolute age since I read about this stuff but didn't Churchill grudgingly accept the report but resist adding it to the party manifesto until they had a better idea of what state the country was in after the war? I also have vague recollections of some of the unions actually being rather suspicious of the idea of national health service since it would potentially undermine their power with both workers and employers with regards to negotiating things like pay deals, they being afraid employers would use it as a way to keep wages down. So how about this - Churchill is persuaded to embrace the report in the spirit of his younger reforming days to steal a march on Labour, several of the leaders of the larger unions get even more spooked than in our timeline and use their influence to either get Labour to leave implementation of the report out of their manifesto or to water it down/be somewhat vague on it. Even that might not be enough to overturn more than a decade of Conservative government and the, somewhat unfair, tag of appeasement. It would however be somewhat amusing simply for the change in narrative over the founding of the NHS somewhat reversing the modern roles of, accused, sceptics and founding party. :)
 
Difficult...

Going to be tricky to get a Conservative win in '45 without a major point of divergence, giving a number of circumstances stacking the deck in favour of a Labour win if the original timeline election takes place after the original timeline victory in Europe.

Simplest way I can think of is something (not sure what) happens during the war which causes Churchill to change parties to the Labour party.
It's not like Churchill hadn't changed parties before...

Alternatively, something causes the war with Japan to drag on (maybe Truman decides not to drop the atomic bombs, and the Russians don't declare war on Japan at their original timeline date???) and although Labour win a clear majority, Attlee decides a national coalition is called for, and invites Churchill to remain on as Prime Minister, on the understanding he confines himself to foreign relations and defence issues*.

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* Yes, this latter option doesn't involve Churchill actually 'winning' the elections, which the thread title calls for, but the actual opening post, which was what was foremost in my mind in writing this response, simply calls for Churchill to remain as Prime Minister...
 
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