Why was Churchill ousted from office after WW2?

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Why was Churchill ousted from office after WW2?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There had not been elections since 1935, so this was the first chance for change in a long time. People wanted social reform, and Churchill's campaign was a bit over the top:

"In addition to the poor Conservative election strategy, Churchill went so far as to accuse Attlee of seeking to behave as a dictator, in spite of Attlee's service in Churchill's war cabinet. In the most famous incident of the campaign, Churchill's first election broadcast on June 4th backfired dramatically and memorably. Denouncing his former coalition partners in bombastic and truculent tones, he declared that Labour "would have to fall back on some form of a Gestapo" to impose socialism on Britain. Typically Churchillian in style and delivery, it seems people couldn??t but reflect that it was a shame that a voice that had so inspired and unified the nation was now being used to make grubby political attacks on his former colleagues, comparing to them the very people they had fought against so effectively together. Attlee's equally typically mild-mannered response the next night, in which he ironically thanked the prime minister for demonstrating to people the difference between Churchill the great wartime leader and peacetime politician, and argued the case for public control of industry."