chill's popularity was never below eighty percent in the polls during the war, but Churchill's re-election campaign was primarily focused on the fact that he was widely considered 'the man who had won the war', and very little else. This proved an ill-conceived approach, as the people realised that they were not just electing Churchill, but the Conservative Party in its entirety. They still seemed to hold the Conservatives responsible for the mismanagement of foreign policy up to 1940, under the leadership of Neville Chamberlain. The public also had great expectations for post war Britain, after the publication of the Beveridge Report on social security, and other proposals for social change. Churchill had commissioned this report in 1942, but he had presented a less than enthusiastic attitude towards it, believing that its proposals were unrealistic for a country recovering from a long period of war, warning his cabinet in 1943 that:
             'A dangerous optimism is growing about the conditions it will be possible to establish here after the war'
             Labour, on the other hand, had pledged themselves in their manifesto to the implementation of the Beveridge Report. Attlee, along with other Labour ministers, had proved to be very capable, during the wartime coalition, of running some of the most important ministries. They were committed to long overdue and popular social change, and the British electorate decided that Labour should be given the chance to put these policies into action.
             Under the quiet, but firm, leadership of Attlee, described as 'a modest man with much to be modest about' , the Labour government was dominated by five prominent ministers. Surprisingly, Ernest Bevin was appointed Foreign Secretary, and Hugh Dalton Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of vice-versa. It has been suggested that this was the case in order to avoid the chance of quarrel between Bevin and Herbert Morrison, ...