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SAMPLE ESSAY 10:
A POLITICS ESSAY
Writing essays about politics and political history clearly shares
common ground with history essays. You have to have your facts at your
fingertips and familiarise yourself with the accepted
terms of the subject
area. Your close analysis has to be backed up with relevant and specific
examples that illustrate the points you are making.
Assignment: What factors led to the landslide victory for the British
Labour Party in the 1945 election?
Opening paragraph
The landslide victory of the Labour Party in the
1945 election was one of the biggest upsets in British
electoral history.
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The Conservative Party, under
the leadership of the then Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, had confidently expected a return to
power after the wartime coalition with Labour, but
their defeat at the polls was not only a rejection of
Churchill as the man to lead Britain in peace-time
and during a period of inevitable major
reconstruction, but also of their pre-war record as a
government. The overall Labour majority was 145
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