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Party scored some own goals, while the Labour Party
captured the mood of the nation. 
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It was, then, 
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the widespread wish for a new
beginning and a rejection of the policies of the 1930s
that helped to win the Labour Party such an
overwhelming victory in the 1945 election. The
wartime experience of millions of ordinary people in
the armed forces had reinforced their
determination not to return to the kind of society
they had endured pre-war. Additionally, the
civilian population had suffered family dislocation
and loss, blackouts, air raids, rationing, restriction
of movement, and many other problems and the
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majority of the voters wanted relief from those
hardships in the post-war British society. The Labour