"Butskellism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1954 February 13, The Economist:",
          "text": "The next few weeks will show whether the Opposition will seize this chance of golden silence; or whether, in a Brown fury, it is going to throw the opportunity for constructive Butskellism away.",
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          "ref": "1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:",
          "text": "And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.",
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          "text": "Camerairism reflects a structural change more profound than Butskellism ever did.",
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