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
So Ends Our Night So Ends Our Night So Ends Our Night is a 1941 drama starring Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan and Glenn Ford, and directed by John Cromwell. The screenplay was adapted by Talbot Jennings from the fourth novel "Flotsam" by the famous German exile, Erich Maria Remarque, who rose to international fame for his first novel, "All Quiet On The Western Front". Written and filmed in a 1940 America that was still primarily isolationist even as FDR began to meet with Winston Churchill, "So Ends Our Night" was one of the most explicitly anti-Nazi films to be made in the Hollywood studio