Harold Macmillan improving standard of living; the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives" was matched by Macmillan's own remark, "indeed let us be frank about it—most of our people have never had it so good," usually paraphrased as "You've never had it so good." Such rhetoric reflected a new reality of working-class affluence; it has been argued that "the key factor in the Conservative victory was that average real pay for industrial workers had risen since Churchill's 1951 victory by over 20 per cent". The scale of the victory meant that not only had the Conservatives won three successive general elections, but
Never Close Our Eyes debut album." A negative review came from Katharine St. Asaph of "Pop Dust", who wrote that "The prechorus, in particular, sounds like nobody could decide whether it called for a dubstep breakdown, spot of synth claps or Travie McCoy interjecting with his acoustic guitar." But she realized that "the problem’s not him, it’s the material–which is particularly baffling, considering there are at least five better singles on this thing. One of them is right after this." The song is listed at number ten on "Pop Crush"'s top 10 songs of the year so far. Never Close Our Eyes "Never Close