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This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through the duration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922, and since then dealing with those of the present-day United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
For general overviews of British politics since 1945, see: Post-war Britain (1945–1979) Political history of the United Kingdom (1979–present) While coverage of British social history over the same period can be found below: Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979) Social history of the United Kingdom (1979–present)
1950: Britain recognises China in January, over American objections. [238] 1950–53: Britain fights under the UN flag in the Korean War against Communist forces from North Korea and China. [239] 1951: Britain strenuously opposes use of nuclear weapons in Korea as discussed by the US [240] 1951: Egypt renounces the 1936 treaty. Egyptians begin ...
The cumulative costs of fighting two world wars, however, placed a heavy burden upon the home economy, and after 1945 the British Empire rapidly began to disintegrate, with all the major colonies gaining independence. By the mid-to-late 1950s, the UK's status as a superpower was gone in the face of the United States and the Soviet Union.
The new Labour government knew the expenses of British involvement across the globe were financially crippling. The post-war military cost £200 million a year, to put 1.3 million men (and a few thousand women) in uniform, keep operational combat fleets stationed in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean as well as Hong Kong ...
The foreign policy of the British Labour governments, 1945–1951 (1984). Pelling, Henry. "The 1945 general election reconsidered". Historical Journal 23#2 (1980): 399–414. in JSTOR; Pelling, Henry. Labour Governments, 1945–1951 (1984) 313pp. Pritt, Denis Nowell. The Labour Government 1945–1951 (1963) detailed coverage, with a far-left ...
The British political system is a multiple-party system [1] and was according to the V-Dem Democracy Indices 2023 the 22nd most electorally democratic in the world. [2] From the 1920s to date, the two dominant parties have been the Conservative Party and the Labour Party.