I’m thinking of the butterflies of a moderately competent 1930s without significant intraparty schism ideologically (Graves and Hodge (1940) _The Long Week End. A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939_) or a moderately competent war which doesn’t max out the grocers tik while doing so. Both of these mean a less angry working class and a lessened push towards a fast radical programme.
In this TL some of the differences from OTL were that there was not a National Government, so there were not National Labour and Liberal National parties; nor did the Independent Labour Party (ILP) disaffiliate from the Labour Party; and Bevan, Cripps and George Strauss were not temporally expelled from the Labour Party.
Also there was no Beveridge Report. Instead in March 1940 the Minister of Health, David Grenfell, appointed Richard Henry Tawney as chairman of a Royal Commission on 'The Development of the Welfare State'. (1) The Commission reported in April 1942.
(1) Here is an article about Tawney: http://infed.org/mobi/richard-henry-tawney-fellowship-and-adult-education. His wife Jeanette,, was the sister of William Beveridge.
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