Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20131216191302/@comment-32656-20131220102853

Far as I can tell, he did not such thing. Morrison opposed him being/becoming leader in 1935, not the 1940s. Morrison, in fact, had no power base within the party worth mentioning by the mid-1940s.

Five years is severely atypical. Don't know why Attlee did it, actually, and it no doubt played a role in the number of seats he lost. Churchill would have done four.

As noted, no chance of Morrison becoming leader. After Attlee, it would either be Greenwood or Bevan.

Churchill did have a clear vision for it - as noted, he and the Conservatives did agree with most of the contents of that report, and wanted to implement the majority of it. This includes housing and the welfare state. He just didn't indicate this vision, beyond international security, to the public, in a manner anywhere remotely near the word "good."