Few, it was claimed, were enticed into backing Labour.
‘There is no reason to be other than frank about these matters. The chances of Labour sweeping the country and obtaining a clear majority over all other parties are pretty remote’
Lord Beaverbrook’s papers claimed ‘favourite figures range from 100 upwards’.
‘If there should be a landslide to the left here, many countries on the Continent would slide, not in to decent socialism, but in to the violence of communism. If we go down, all the nine-pins of Europe will fall’.
‘Leave him alone. Don’t hurt the little fool’.
He declared Attlee to have ‘politically speaking, all the appeal of a lonely clam’.
Churchill, ‘the greatest living figure of our time, may occupy the driver’s seat in England for a long time to come’
‘Churchill has finally been trounced by Attlee. The Tories have become more and more panic stricken as the days have gone by. Our strength in the country is far greater than ever it has been before. Toryism is played out’.
‘For those of us who served at his side through the darkest days of the war, we have watched with surprise and regret his pathetic decline during this campaign’
‘We put our faith in the people at home to do the right thing by us and give us the people in power we want’