Privatization was an enduring legacy of Thatcherism; it was accepted by the Labour administration of Tony Blair.
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Tony Blair was leader of the Labour Party from 1994, and three times Prime Minister (1997–2007).
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However the rest of the 1990s saw the beginning of a period of continuous economic growth that lasted over 16 years and was greatly expanded under the New Labour government of Tony Blair following his landslide election victory in 1997, with a rejuvenated party having abandoned its commitment to policies including nuclear disarmament and nationalisation of key industries, and no reversal of the Thatcher-led union reforms.
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Under Attlee foreign policy was the domain of Ernest Bevin, who looked for innovative ways to bring western Europe together in a military alliance.
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It developed and implemented the "cradle to grave" welfare state conceived by the Liberal economist William Beveridge.
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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan claimed that "the luxuries of the rich have become the necessities of the poor." As summed up by R. J. Unstead,
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The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in postwar Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945.
Philip George Houthem Gell (1914–2001), immunologist working in postwar Britain