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government established a national health care system and implemented public control over major industries and utilities. However, when the Labour Party lost power, it peacefully turned over control of the government to the victorious Conservative Party. Britain would eventually divest itself of many state-owned industries, such as railroads and the coal industry, during the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher served as prime minister.

A crowd attends a 2018 rally to hear Social Democrat and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven speak in Umeå, Sweden. The Social Democratic Party is the largest and oldest political party in Sweden.

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