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PERHAPS the most informative site belongs to the politics department at Keele
University (www.keele.ac.uk/depts/po/ge97.htm). This has every election
manifesto issued by the main political parties since 1945. And there are some
wonderful hostages to fortune. For example, which political party pledged this?
“Prosperity depends on the combined efforts of the nation as a whole. None of us
can afford outmoded approaches to the problems of today and we intend to invite
representatives of the employers and trades unions to consider afresh with us
the human and industrial problems that the next five years will bring.” It is,
of course, far too radical for Tony Blair’s new Labour. But not for Harold
Macmillan’s Conservative Party manifesto back in 1959.