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The experience of the majority of the British people
during the 1930s was undoubtedly 
(1)
a major factor
in giving their votes to the Labour Party. 
(2)
The
Great Depression of the 1930s, after the Wall Street
crash of 1929, had led to mass unemployment in
Britain. With minimal social security available to
the mass of the population, the working classes
endured years of deprivation and struggle to meet
the very basic needs of food, housing and health
care. There was no safety net for the mass of the
population to fall back onto. Millions lived in
wretched city slums and were seriously
undernourished. The lack of nutritious food meant
many children and old people, in particular,
suffered from ill-health. Free medical care was very
scarce and when the choice was between putting
food on the table or paying the doctor’s bills,
millions had to choose the survival route and
neglect basic health needs. 
(3)
And who was in
charge during this decade of social deprivation?
The Conservatives, who were now asking the people
who had endured under their government of the
1930s to give them once again their trust. The bitter
experience of that decade, however, had not been
forgotten and it would cost the Tory Party dearly. 
(4)
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Paragraph 3
It must also be stressed
(1)
that the 1945 election was
the first opportunity the electorate had had to
choose their government since 1935. 
(2)
When war
broke out in 1939, elections were suspended so the
British people had had no chance to register their
approval or otherwise of government policies for ten
whole years. Victory in Europe had been achieved
with the surrender of Germany and its allies, but the
war in the Pacific had still to be won. Most people
acknowledged that Churchill had proved himself a
great leader in wartime conditions. He became a
symbol of British resistance to the Nazi war machine.
However, voters had long memories and Churchill
was associated in the nation’s consciousness with the
horrors of the 1930s. 
(3)
Older voters, too, recalled the
aftermath of the First World War (‘the war to end all
wars’), when promises about a reordering of British
society had been made and then power and wealth
had returned to the same people as before the war.
In July 1945, as the war neared its close, the mass of
the voters seemed determined that this time things
would be very different. 
(4)