Harold Macmillan

You've never had it so good

One-nation market conservatism.

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The patrician PM whose 'one-nation' conservatism married market prosperity to full employment and the postwar consensus — the genial face of moderate centre-right rule.

social

One-nation traditionalist with a paternalist streak.

economic

Pro-market, but kept full employment and the mixed-economy consensus.

governance

Patrician institutionalist of the moderate centre-right.

Notable for

'Most have never had it so good'
One-nation conservatism
Decolonisation 'wind of change'

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