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Drafting the Bill

In: The Nationalisation of British Transport

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  • Michael R. Bonavia

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After the First World War, the ferment of new ideas and the will to change the economic and social structure of Britain both died away even before the break-up of the wartime Coalition government. It was very different at the end of the Second World War. A new Labour administration, enjoying a majority of 146 in the House of Commons, was able to embark upon legislation embodying ideas and ideals which had hitherto seemed almost impossible of implementation. ‘Given the fervour with which the new Government was received by its supporters and the power of the Whips in the British Party system, such a majority meant that Ministers could prepare their legislation without much regard for the views of the Opposition’.1

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  • Michael R. Bonavia, 1987. "Drafting the Bill," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Nationalisation of British Transport, chapter 2, pages 3-21, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08793-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08793-8_2
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