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Attlees Government Essay

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In my opinion, although for many of Attlee's year in charge there were remarks of triumph, I still believe that it can be question to how far these actually were successful. Source 6 shows us that the Labour Government passed mass amounts of new legislation, and then this resulted in many benefits for the people, and this was emphasised and touched on in Source 4. In contrast to this, Source 5 shows us that the triumphs can be questioned, with their being a sense that the needs of the people were not considered in the attempt of a reform programme. To start of, Source 6 gives of a sense that the things that were achieved by Attlee's government were 'remarkable'. This is because of the Source stating things such as 'Labour had many successes at this time such as the establishments of the NHS'. Some would argue that the NHS...

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