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why would attlee not have been ousted? morrison tried to oust him even after he led labour to a landslide, if labour had not won the election he would have gone and morrison would have taken over

churchill would have been in with an overall majority of 10 - 30 as far as i can see, enough to last a 5 year term - he would have gone for 5 years not 4 - but labour would have won in 1950 under morrison. In many ways this would have been a better result for labour in the long term, but without bevin and cripps it would not have had the kind of force it had in '45.

Railway nationalisation would have gone ahead, and coal, but maybe not steel.

Churchill was not a classical liberal by this point, he didnt have a clear vision of a postwar britain, as such he would not have been an ideological capitalist, he would have probably been forced by the social realities to greatly expand the welfare state, and a national housing scheme would have been established.