The Myth of MR Butskell: The Politics of British Economic Policy, 1950-55

by Scott Kelly and Scott Kelly

This title was first published in 2003: It is often assumed that a general consensus existed between the post-war Labour and Conservative governments in matters of economic policy. Indeed, by 1954, The Economist was able to satirise the situation with the invention of 'Mr Butskell', a fictitious political figure created by an amalgam of the names of Hugh Gaitskell and R A Butler. For decades afterwards the character of Mr Butskell came to personify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138736597
• ISBN13: 9781138736597
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge