1. S. Brooke, Labour’s War: The Labour Party During the Second World War (1992), pp. 34–5, 75.
2. Brooke, Labour’s War, p. 37.
3. Ibid., pp. 40–1; J. Swift, Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931–40 (2001), pp. 151–4.
4. Brooke, Labour’s War, p. 43.
5. J. Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (1987), p. 84; E. Estorick, Stafford Cripps: A Biography (1949), p. 326.