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Party with its promises about a kind of ‘new deal’
and a caring State that would intervene on behalf
of the ordinary citizen against the old oligarchies
and wealth-owners caught the mood of the people. 
(2)
The result was the landslide majority gifted to the
Party by the voters. 
(3)
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NALYSIS
Opening paragraph
(1) The first sentence immediately addresses the topic of the assignment,
the landslide 1945 victory, and says something specific about it.
(2) The long sentences two and three put the election into historical
context by mentioning Churchill and the Conservative Party, his
wartime leadership and the expectations of victory. The actual result
of the election is then referred to.
Paragraph 2
(1) The use of ‘undoubtedly’ emphasises the point already made in the
opening paragraph and acts as a linking word.
(2) The first sentence indicates what the paragraph is to be about: the
experience of the British people in the 1930s.
(3) Sentences two to seven supply detailed examples of the hardships of
the 1930s, citing historical events, mass unemployment, resultant
poverty and the lack of state action to redress the hardships.
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(4) The last three sentences draw an intermediate conclusion from the
facts supplied in the paragraph, namely that the electorate held the
Conservative Party responsible for the ills of the Depression.
Paragraph 3
(1) The words ‘It must also be stressed’ act as a linking device between
this paragraph and previous one.
(2) This is the key sentence of the paragraph mentioning the 1945
election as the electorate’s opportunity to pass a verdict on the pre-
war government.
(3) Sentences two to seven develop this key point, emphasising the
electorate made a distinction between Churchill’s role as a successful
war leader and the pre-war record of the Tories.
(4) The last two sentences make a point about older voters and reiterates
the point about their desire to leave the past behind them and look to
a better future.