Butskellism is the moderately satirical term used in British politics to refer to the political consensus formed in the 1950s and associated with the exercise of office as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Rab Butler of the Conservative Party and Hugh Gaitskell of the Labour Party. The term was inspired by a leading article in The Economist which dra...
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(from the article `United Kingdom`) ...half—since the death of the widely admired Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell and prominent Conservative R.A. Butler had been the principal figures in the ... ...voluntarism in that Beveridge advocated a minister-guardian of voluntary action. So pervasive was the postwar party consensus on the welfare ...
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UK term for political policies tending towards the middle ground in an effort to gain popular support; the term was coined 1954 after R A Butler (moderate Conservative) and Hugh
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