1930 the liberal party overcomes its differences and reforms
1945 Winston Churchill is more sympathetic and uses less strong rhetoric about the NHS labour also make a few mistakes and have a worse campaign than OTL the liberals do reasonably
seats in parliament as follows labour 48% liberals 7% conservatives 44%
Labour enters coalition with liberals
Labour agrees with the liberals on the idea of the national health service however disagree on the minutiae even so the liberals and labour manage to stay long enough together for the NHS to be created. University constituencies are not abolished .Instead changed to represent those actually at the university including staff but people can’t be registered in more than one constituency and the voting age is lowered to 18 Oxford Cambridge and London are combined as part of the English universities constituency which became a multimember constituency comprising of 4 MPs. The Scottish universities constituencies stay the same. All new universities would become part of the university constituencies with an increase in representatives proportional to the number of new universities. The universities would count as a single region with an open party list system. The new rules are not widely noticed outside of academia since people are more focused on things like the NHS
1950-1960s no real changes to OTL
1945 Winston Churchill is more sympathetic and uses less strong rhetoric about the NHS labour also make a few mistakes and have a worse campaign than OTL the liberals do reasonably
seats in parliament as follows labour 48% liberals 7% conservatives 44%
Labour enters coalition with liberals
Labour agrees with the liberals on the idea of the national health service however disagree on the minutiae even so the liberals and labour manage to stay long enough together for the NHS to be created. University constituencies are not abolished .Instead changed to represent those actually at the university including staff but people can’t be registered in more than one constituency and the voting age is lowered to 18 Oxford Cambridge and London are combined as part of the English universities constituency which became a multimember constituency comprising of 4 MPs. The Scottish universities constituencies stay the same. All new universities would become part of the university constituencies with an increase in representatives proportional to the number of new universities. The universities would count as a single region with an open party list system. The new rules are not widely noticed outside of academia since people are more focused on things like the NHS
1950-1960s no real changes to OTL