WI: Churchill wins the 1945 General Election

I am considering doing a timeline on what would happen if Winston Churchill won the 1945 General Election, and I would like to see what other people have to say on it before I start writing.
So, how would the UK change if Churchill won in 1945? Judging by the Conservative Manifesto, it seems like the Beveridge Report would have still been implemented, but what else would happen if Churchill won? Which party would win the 1950 general election?
 
I think it'd have been virtually impossible because Churchill had virtually no vision for Postwar Britain that the majority of the populace wanted. Put crudely, they wanted butter before Gun and glory (the Empire). Furthermore, economically he wasn't much of a Tory. Even the Cambridge Five scandal wouldn't break against Labour since it was on a joint watch.
 
I am considering doing a timeline on what would happen if Winston Churchill won the 1945 General Election, and I would like to see what other people have to say on it before I start writing.
So, how would the UK change if Churchill won in 1945? Judging by the Conservative Manifesto, it seems like the Beveridge Report would have still been implemented, but what else would happen if Churchill won? Which party would win the 1950 general election?
Well. If the man is to be taken at his own word (see Appendix C of Volume VI of Churchill's history of the second world war) an intense house building operation was very much a priority, as may have been - if I understand the jargon about 'Class A' (manpower) correctly - getting serving men who had been fighting for the longest demobilised as soon as possible.
National Insurance and an NHS (in some form) may have been on the cards too.
 
I am considering doing a timeline on what would happen if Winston Churchill won the 1945 General Election, and I would like to see what other people have to say on it before I start writing.
So, how would the UK change if Churchill won in 1945? Judging by the Conservative Manifesto, it seems like the Beveridge Report would have still been implemented, but what else would happen if Churchill won? Which party would win the 1950 general election?
To get a Tory victory in 1945 was virtually impossible I'm afraid. Churchill was popular but his party was blamed for Appeasement, the 1930's and the War. My grandfather was totally unsurprised by the scale of the Tory defeat in 1945, because he had been listening to what the men around him in the British Army had been saying.
 
I'm not going to put you down but your going to need a pov further down the line like hint Having clement Attlee die during ww1 hint but if you do this good
 
I looked it up, and the Labour popular vote margin over the Tories was something like 11%.

With British elections, that is hard to wave away, and actually everyone but the Labour leadership seems to have expected Labour to win that year.

So you need a deeper POD. The main one I can think of is a much worse Labour split in the 1930s, resulting in either or both "National Labour" and Independent Labour being much stronger political organizations, able to take enough votes away from normal Labour so that it finishes with a percentage in the low 1930s, with some middle class Labour supporters voting for the Liberals. Something like this would have greater consequences down the line than yet another left-of-center Tory government.

By the way, Jenkins in his biography of Churchill notes that according to the polls, support for the Tories increased during the campaign, so without Churchill, say he dies during the later part of the war, the defeat would have been worse.

While the Tories objected to the NHS while in opposition, they sort of had to. A bigger consequence on a Churchill ministry in the late 1940s would have been in handling India. And Churchill himself would have been talked into retiring a few years past 1945. Being out of government probably benefited his health.
 
You'd need to bump Churchill off during the course of WW2, a slightly worse situation on the home front (for which Labour can be, at least in part, blamed for), and a boost to the Common Wealth Party at the polls to have the Tories in as a party.

Churchill as PM after the 1945 election is, by all accounts, highly improbable and difficult to pull off.
 
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