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Dropped by and have done some tidying of the references: standardised on last/first format, fixed some dead links, google books replaced by publisher, depreciated parameters replaced. I have also handled the
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The article also doesn't discuss the development of the post-war program during the war (which was widely seen as lacklustre, hence the massive swing to Labour which was seen as having much better ideas), or the fact that
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Unfortunately, as the majority of the comments above have not been addressed, I am removing this article's GA status. Keith D, I truly appreciate your work, as it made the existing refs far better, but the cleanup banners and unreferenced areas continue to be a problem.
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switched to Havard type linkage for ease of use at some point in the future. Hopefully some of the regular editors of the article can fix the textural points that you have raised and supply the missing references.
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There are a lot of one- and two-sentence paragraphs, which make the article read very choppily. This is a more minor issue, though.
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These are the biggest issues, when/if they are addressed I'll take another swing through. Let me know if you have any questions.
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