By 1964 no longer a world power

• internationally isolated from commonwealth members

  • threat if economic collapse due to no American support in suez - led to cabinet split
  • Involvement in Korea to maintain relationship with America
  • Led to EEC rejection as Trojan horse - needed EEC due to bad economy
  • Economy too reliant on America and couldnt act alone
• High defence expenditure - 1.8 million leads to lack of industrial investment with lowest GDP growth in Western Europe

  • Japan and Germany compete with cars and modern factories vs English Victorian repairs
  • Education reforms were too late so unskilled workforce lacking innovation
  • Didn’t invest enough in public sectors which fund independance and instead defence
• atomic bomb 1955 to compete along side america amd Soviets but couldn’t keep up

  • traded Polaris missiles after blue streak failure for Scottish submarine bases in Hollyrood
  • after decolonising couldn’t be a world power