Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is FALSE?
A) The National Insurance Act and National Health Service Act made Britain a welfare state in the 1940s.
B) Britain suffered from losing its prewar colonial revenues.
C) By the Suez Canal debacle, Britain was no longer a superpower.
D) The British economy lagged behind that of several other Western European nations.
E) The Conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s.
E
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