1. See the discussion of this by P. Hennessy, ‘The Attlee Governments, 1945–1951’, in P. Hennessy and A. Seldon (eds), Ruling Performance. British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher (Oxford, 1987), pp. 31–2.
2. K. O. Morgan, Labour in Power 1945–1951 (Oxford, 1984), p. 503.
3. See also H. Pelling, The Labour Governments 1945–51 (London, 1984), pp. 261–8.
4. R. Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism (London, 1961);
5. J. Saville, The Labour Movement in Britain. A Commentary (London, 1988).